The Reform movement called on President Bush to state that there should be no religious test for the office of the presidency. In an interview published Wednesday in the Washington Times newspaper, Bush said he didn’t see “how you can be president, without a relationship with the Lord.” Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, called on Bush to clarify the remark. “I urge him to clarify this off-the-cuff statement in a manner that affirms the president’s oft-stated commitment to religious pluralism, tolerance, and equality,” Saperstein said.
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