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Originally Posted by Carnyx
Qualified he may be, no doubt. However, perhaps we should not exempt a President from filling a few basic criterions.
Otherwise, how would you think a Protestant would request his duty, serving his nation whose people is majoritarily Catholics and contenting them while he is not representative of the majority? I fear that he should serve the interests of his co-religionists first. What do you think?
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I think it would depend on circumstances at the time. If French Protestants had proven by their actions that they did not put the nation's interests first in public life, and if the Protestant candidate had shown he may favour his own group, then anyone would be right in voting against him based on religion. If, on the other hand, Protestants had acted like any other group it would be unjustified.
In any case a citizen can vote agianst anyone for any reason he chooses, but in a republic a citizen cannot be fairly excluded from a public office because of religion.
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Originally Posted by Prometheus
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If I were French I'd vote for him.