If someone objected to the nomination of a distinguished scientist to be director of the National Institutes of Health because the nominee was a Muslim or an atheist, we’d all call that objection by its rightful name: religious bigotry.
When Sam Harris objects to the nomination of Francis Collins as NIH Director because Collins is an Evangelical Christian who has actual Evangelical Christian beliefs, that’s different … how, exactly?
Harris wants to impose by politics the sort of “religious test” the Framers explicitly forbade imposing by law.
