Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Denis Prager is off base
Dennis Prager is writing that Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, should not be allowed to swear his oath on a Koran.
There is no constitutional reason Representative Keith Ellison should not take his oath of office on a Koran. I'm curious to see whether Senator Joe Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, took his oath of office on a Tanakh or Torah, rather than a full Old and New Testament Bible.
This is the kind of thinking that makes it embarrassing to be a right wing whackjob.
The problem isn't Ellison's Koran. It's Ellison.
But he won the election.
Then there's the whole "establishment clause" thing.
Deal with it, Dennis.
Splash, out
Jason
There is no constitutional reason Representative Keith Ellison should not take his oath of office on a Koran. I'm curious to see whether Senator Joe Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, took his oath of office on a Tanakh or Torah, rather than a full Old and New Testament Bible.
This is the kind of thinking that makes it embarrassing to be a right wing whackjob.
The problem isn't Ellison's Koran. It's Ellison.
But he won the election.
Then there's the whole "establishment clause" thing.
Deal with it, Dennis.
Splash, out
Jason
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