Bible being replaced by Koran, to take the Oath for becoming Congressman for USA

Nothing in the Constitution or our state laws mandate a person to swear on the Christian Bible, the legal alternative is to "affirm." This is a promise to tell the truth under pain of perjury, available to those who either do not believe in the Christian God, the Christian Bible, or whose interpretation of the Bible forbids them to swear. Some people have sworn in on the Old Testament or on different versions of the Christian Bible, all these texts were part of, or variations on the Christian Bible, included the Ten Commandments, and endorsed the same moral value of truth telling. Being no religious test for elected office, and nobody trying to force Ellison to swear on the Christian Bible. He can make his affirmation under penalty of perjury, promising to tell the truth and uphold our man-made laws. This would not preclude him from practicing the religion of his choice. Problem I have with him swearing an oath on the Koran is that it gives him permission to Lie to Infidels (which are Christians or any non-muslim believer...mainly all of the USA) and to not honor any laws other than the laws of Allah. AMERICA better wake up! It has nothing to do with freedom of religion...the Oath is promising to tell the truth and uphold the laws of our land.

The right of Taqiyya, 'dissemblage' is only practised by Shi'ite Islam and does not apply in this circumstance as his life is not in danger. Jewish Congressfolk are pictured with their hand on the Torah, LDS are often pictured holing the Book of Mormon, I have no problem with this man holding the Qur'an.

So you feel ONE person's belief system can change the current systems in place by our country's forefathers agreed upon by the American people and take the belief system of most Christian Americans away and just replace it with that ONE person's belief? That's what is wrong to me. I understand what you mean by making it a more serious oath. I know our country is founded on the Bible and basically Christian values. Our country is being stripped away of its religious basis.

No, I think our country was founded on freedom of religion. Allowing him to have this freedom actually UPHOLDS the values our country was founded on. That's one of the reasons we came over here. I don't have to agree with his religion to respect his right to believe as he chooses.

"This indicates the seriousness of his oath. It's not about whether you or I believe in the Koran. It's about whether HE does. If HE is willing to swear on that which he holds in the highest authority, then you can believe in his oath" I agree completely! It be like me goin into a court of law and swearing to tell the truth whole truth and nothing but the truth on the bible...the bible means nothing to me so should I be so inclined to b.s I could and not feel bad about it...swear me in over my kids pics though and thats a totally different story! (bad comparison I know but I'm sure you get the point)

Taking an oath on the Bible is the current procedure. You make a good point. It's just hard to believe one Person's belief can alter the belief of many just to appease him.

Allowing him to swear on the Koran doesn't translate to altering anyone's beliefs. It won't make me any less of a Christian.

It works both ways. All religions want respect and yet are intolerant to Christians or the mention of the Bible, Christ, Jesus, etc. and want to remove and hush the Christian beliefs. It is wrong. If you're going to TOLERATE all Religions...then Tolerate Christianity too. As far as changing our founded congressional Oath system, that's wrong. Then where do the lines get drawn to making an honest oath.

Well put, thank you for your response.

US does not refer to Christianity and its state rligion, howeer th Bible is cited in many laws and taken with rspect within th laws of court. The Muslims, within the US, should accept that. And there are Christian countries , aka states that recognize some form of Christianity as their official religion (by denomination): Roman Catholic Jurisdictions which recognize Catholicism as their official religion: Argentina Bolivia Costa Rica El Salvador Haiti Liechtenstein Malta Monaco Some cantons of Switzerland Vatican City Eastern Orthodox Jurisdictions which recognize one of the Eastern Orthodox Churches as their official religion: Cyprus Greece Finland Lutheran Jurisdictions which recognize a Lutheran church as their official religion: Denmark Iceland Norway Finland Anglican Jurisdictions that recognise an Anglican church as their state religion: England - Church of England Reformed Jurisdictions which recognize a Reformed church as their official religion: Some cantons of Switzerland Have a nice day!

Countries are not Christian. People are.

I think there are a lot of muslims who are better people than a lot of Christians. They tolerate a lot of hatred and stereotyping from Christians and only a few of them dish it back at us.

"Beautiful, just try going to an Islamic republic and running for any kind of public office as a non Muslim. And, if by some miracle you manage to do that, then just see what happens if you ask to be sworn in on a Bible, and then talk to me about tolerance." Exactly! That is why we do not want to be that way. Or is the attitude you deplore so much in muslims OK if it's a Christian doing it? "Bottom line: he has the freedom here to do it, here, in the US. We don't have to agree with it, but that's also our freedom." That's my point exactly. Thank goodness we are not like other countries who do enforce religion on their citizens.