The state still formally forbids non-believers from holding public office in its constitution, even though this is unconstitutional at a national level. An attempt to end that anomaly just failed. But it's not as if Arkansans can't move with the times: they did just pass a law to allow people to bring guns into church.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/02/sometimes-it-feels-like-another-country/6750/
