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Originally Posted by suginami
...Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, has announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran...
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That's not true. Ellison was sworn in along with the rest of the members - no Bibles, Korans, or Torahs involved. The procedure in which Ellison chose to use the Koran was a second unofficial ceremony that they do for each individual member.
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He should not be allowed to do so -- not because of any American hostility to the Koran, but because the act undermines American civilization...
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That's also wrong. For one thing Article VI, Clause 3 of the Constitution says:
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The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
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Isn't Prager calling for a religious test? Secondly, I don't buy his conclusion that Islam is so inferior to Christianity that we are required to use only the Christian Bible for these ceremonies. Finally, his world view is a dead end. Does he expect Muslims to accept an inferior position? It's ridiculous.