Cuomo's Religious Test

Here in Human Events, David Limbaugh does an excellent job of deconstructing Mario Cuomo's ridiculous performance on "Meet the Press".

One of the most offensive parts of Cuomo's appearance was, perhaps, this:

Everybody takes an oath to support the Constitution, including especially judges. So why not ask them: "Will you, Judge, apply a religious test to the Constitution? Will you start by saying, `I'm not going to support the Constitution if my pope tells me not to'?"

As my Hugh Hewitt Show co-host Peter Robinson pointed out, that's the same sort of slur that was purveyed against John Kennedy when he ran for President -- the insinuation that Catholics are going to be guided by the Pope, even in contravention of the laws of the land.

But what I love is the question, "Will you, Judge, apply a religious test to the Constitution?" Of course it sounds clever when intoned on TV (and how Cuomo loves his oratory and his cleverness!). But what does it actually mean? What example would Cuomo cite of a judge applying a religious test to the Constitution?

In any case, a religious test has already been applied to the Constitution -- by the Founding Fathers when they wrote it.