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(FAITHWIRE) – Did you know: there’s a provision in the Tennessee Constitution banning ministers and preachers from serving in the state legislature? Yes, really.
Article 8 of the document, which was first drafted in 1796, proclaims no ministers or priests can serve in either house of the legislature, WPLN radio reported.
Rather than a punishment or form of discrimination, the preclusion might have been codified, in part, to protect pastors and ministers from distraction — or so the language states. Preachers’ jobs were seen as so vital that politics would be an impediment.
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