When your audience is settled and ready to watch, you might introduce the film with the following:
ARTICLE VI is an intense discussion of the role of faith in politics. In response to Americans’ concerns about his Catholicism in the 1960 presidential campaign, JFK said "an act against one religion is an act against all." Today, the debate rages on as the faith today’s candidates fall under the same scrutiny.
ARTICLE VI examines the Founding Fathers’ vision of religious freedom and captures an important national debate that spans politics, religious bigotry, and intolerance in America.