NY Times: Fear & Bigotry in Congress Regarding Ellison's use of Koran.

[muntrv]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/23/opinion/23sat3.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Memo to Prager & Goode: The Constitution says there is not to be a religious test for swearing in members of Congress.


Article 6 Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution.
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.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Right on!

Ellison said so again and again in an interview on CNN, I believe. You can watch it by going to political videos.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Personally I think that the oath should be strictly secular.

No bibles of any variety, no korans, no swearing to any god. We are a secular repuiblic and it is about time we grew up and started behaving like one.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. um, they are secuLar

they don't use a bibLe or anything - they just raise their right hand.

this 'controversy' was created out of a whoLe cLoth.

edit: doh! gotta remember to Log in.

[angstlessk]

4. Did you buy sniffa's keyboard, the one with the stuck Capital L's?

sniffa is the only person I have seen do the CapitaL L's .,..is there a meaning to this?

[sniffa]

6. nope

i just forgot to Log her out. :yoiks:

[angstlessk]

7. delete dupid one

dern...thought i stopped this screwed up version

[angstlessk]

8. I did not know you shared a computer with

bicentennial_baby...cool! B-)

[angstlessk]

5. Thanks for the link...short but to the point...n/t