The North Carolina Constitution of 1776:

32. That no person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine authority of either the Old or New Testaments or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office, or place of trust or profit, in the civil department, within this State

http://www.nhinet.org/ccs/docs/nc-1776.htm

Many people forget that the limitations of religion and government enforcing one were limited to the federal government in our federal constitution and meant to be left up to the states because at that time each state pretty much had its own religion. In 1776, the primary religion in North Carolina was protestant.


Current Constitution:

The North Carolina Constitution http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Legislation/constitution/article6.html:

Sec. 8. Disqualifications for office.

The following persons shall be disqualified for office:

First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God.

Second, with respect to any office that is filled by election by the people, any person who is not qualified to vote in an election for that office.

Third, any person who has been adjudged guilty of treason or any other felony against this State or the United States, or any person who has been adjudged guilty of a felony in another state that also would be a felony if it had been committed in this State, or any person who has been adjudged guilty of corruption or malpractice in any office, or any person who has been removed by impeachment from any office, and who has not been restored to the rights of citizenship in the manner prescribed by law.


http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Legislation/constitution/article1.html

Sec. 13. Religious liberty.

All persons have a natural and inalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and no human authority shall, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience.