Ellison

You know what? Why the heck is it that the conservatives are howling with rage at the idea of Keith Ellison, a Muslim Representative from Minnesota, is going to be allowed to swear in on the Koran? I thought conservatives were supposed to be the ones who believed in a strict interpretation of the Constitution. When reading the Constitution of the United States of America, just where does it say that those who are being sworn in MUST USE THE BIBLE? Hmm, Hmmm? I have however, read in the First Amendment that Congress shall make no law establishing religion. Saying Representatives of all faiths must use the Bible sounds an AWFUL lot like establishing religion.
I have watched interviews of Keith Ellison on TV. He believes very strongly that his Muslim faith encourages him to treat all people as brothers and sisters, and that nobody in this nation or the world should be abandoned in favor of big money and the power that comes with it. Anyone who doesn't believe that is actually a teaching of Islam should look beyond the terrorists who dominate our nightly news and study what Muhammad really wrote. Treating all people equally and with love is in there, just like the Bible, and I'd be very surprised if anything to the contrary was written in the Tora, or any other religious book. "Religion is love." Anna Stewart wrote in Black Beauty, and if any religious person who believes that wants to go to Congress and act on that belief, I don't really care if they are sworn in on a batch of mom's delicious brownies. Just get them in there. This country needs a few good men and women.

Roman Wolf