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(23,291 posts)herding cats
(19,559 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)Gothmog
(145,119 posts)I agree that the look on that idiot's face was priceless
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)sarisataka
(18,591 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Which seems appropriate for a Muslim.
However, there are also Christian sects that don't believe in swearing on or by anything (citing Jesus, who said "let your yes be yes and your no be no" and that any further embellishment was evil). For those people, the law allows them to make their statement by affirmation, and swearing an oath on the Bible would be considered by them to be quite sinful, if not outright blasphemous.
In the clip, Ted Crockett looked like he was trying to catch a fly buzzing around the studio.
Gothmog
(145,119 posts)This story made me smile http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/05/AR2007010500512.html
"Look at that. That's something else," Ellison, D-Minn., said as officials from the Library of Congress showed him the two-volume Quran, which was published in London in 1764.
A few minutes later, Ellison took the ceremonial oath with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., at his side. So many of Ellison's family members attended the ceremony that it was done in two takes.
Ellison had already planned to be sworn in using a Quran, rather than a Bible. He learned last month about Jefferson's Quran, with its multicolored cover and brown leather binding, and arranged to borrow it.
mn9driver
(4,423 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)and Sen. Masie Hirono, a Buddhist, used "no book at all."
lunatica
(53,410 posts)HAHAHAHAHHAAA!
babylonsister
(171,056 posts)Hamlette
(15,411 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)A Betty Crocker Cookbook if you want.
Mariana
(14,854 posts)See The Constitution of the United States, Article VI.
Hekate
(90,641 posts)Mariana
(14,854 posts)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.
Why do Roy Moore and this jackass on the TV hate America so much?
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Id like to think we could win this race but I think this stupid is just too strong in Alabamastan. Which is the rule areas. As is normally the case where there are universities and High tech jobs there are Democratic party members.
I do congratulate my fellow members of the Democratic Party in Alabama for all their hard work. We in Florida have a whole Lotta work to do as well.