More Ellison Posting

I just can't get enough of this Keith-Ellison-bashing story. Read my previous post for the background.

The USA Today had an article that was titled, "Newly Elected Muslim Lawmaker Under Fire". Of course, he was not under fire until the bigoted Dennis Prager decided to make it an issue.

At the bottom of the story was this nugget, showing, once again, that Prager is allergic to doing research.

Prager, who is Jewish, wrote that no Mormon elected official has "demanded to put his hand on the Book of Mormon." But Republican Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon, carried a volume of Mormon scriptures that included the Bible and the Book of Mormon at his swearing-in ceremony in 1997.

Oops.

But wait, there's more.

According to the Library of Congress, Theodore Roosevelt became the first and only president to take an oath without a Bible in 1901. In 1961, John F. Kennedy took his oath on a Catholic (Douay) version of the Bible. Several Jewish members of Congress have taken their oath on the Torah. Article VI of the Constitution specifies that "... no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

Even the Swamp from the Chicago Tribune sees the inherent stupidity in the statements by Prager.

Here we just celebrated Thanksgiving which had something to do with Pilgrims finding religious freedom in what later became America, as I recall, and days later, there’s a heated debate over someone choosing to take his oath of office on the Koran versus the Bible.

There is precedent in other religious texts being used. The only way that people can be angry now is if they are specifically against the use of the Koran.

And maybe that's what Prager is.