After taking an appalling amount of heat for deciding to use his holy book — the Koran — to swear on in a private ceremony upon taking the oath of office as a Congressman, Rep. Keith Ellison has manage to out-patriot his critics by choosing to swear on a Koran owned by Thomas Jefferson and sold to the
Library of Congress when TJ was running more short of funds than he usually was. The idea being that even the ostensible uber-Christian-Patriots will give pause before criticizing someone for swearing on a book owned by Thomas Jefferson.
Of course, if they knew much about Jefferson’s opinions on religion and, more specifically, the Bible, they might find new reasons to object …
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It just made me laugh how the tables got turned so cleverly – “no can defense.”
One of the Right Wing Idiots was wondering that since Jefferson owned slaves, if he was going sware his oath over a couple of slaves as well.
Jeez.