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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (755583)	12/4/2006 1:11:19 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "irrelevant" Guess I was confused when you said "The pledge"... 'cause isn't the PLEDGE he takes totally unchanged? (And, only the book he holds in his hand while pledging different?) (Of course... also with large portions of the two books in common, as I mentioned.... the Old Testament portions.)

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (755583)	12/4/2006 1:41:30 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<Had this pointed out to me....> It all may be a trumped-up 'tempest in a tea cup'.... ------------------------------- ...radio host Dennis Prager wrote a column earlier this week claiming that Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim elected to Congress, had “announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran.” Prager claimed this “act undermines American civilization,” and compared it to being sworn in with a copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” Bloggers on the left and right — including Taylor Marsh, Steven Bennen, Eugene Volokh, Stephen Bainbridge — have torn apart Prager’s argument on constitutional grounds. But Prager’s column is based on one other glaring error: the swearing-in ceremony for the House of Representatives never includes a religious book. The Office of the House Clerk confirmed to ThinkProgress that the swearing-in ceremony consists only of the Members raising their right hands and swearing to uphold the Constitution. The Clerk spokesperson said neither the Christian Bible, nor any other religious text, had ever been used in an official capacity during the ceremony. (Occassionally, Members pose for symbolic photo-ops with their hand on a Bible.) Below, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) is sworn in last year by Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) with his hand on the rostrum: thinkprogress.org