and yet thomas jefferson founder of the republicans qrote that there needs to be a complete seperation of church and state

This has the potential for some serious lulz. However, there needs to be more internets friendly writing.
I shall demonstrate:

Jefferson is more commonly credited as the father of the Democratic party. Republicans are the party of Lincoln.

If I ever ran for congress and won, I'd do the swearing-in ceremony with a comic book.

And yet, shockingly enough, Abraham Lincoln, too, was a rational person who strayed from associating himself with religion. Most specifically Christianity.

I always laugh at these people who think they have the right to try and rewrite history, but then I die a little inside when I remember that a lot of them are in charge in this country.

If I were elected I want to be sworn in with my hand on the SG webpage!

LOL! You libs r 2 dum to realze that the only reason Jefferson had a copy of the Koran was because he wanted a model of what NOT to make the United States, i.e. NOT a country that loves the Islamotreehuggers. Duh!

While I was very pleased when I read this - I enjoy a good bitch slap like anyone else - I feel compelled to also say that mixing religion with politics is just as bad when the religion is Islam as it is when the religion is Christianity - or Judaism.

The fact that this is a news item is a reflection of how far we have moved from the idea that religion is a private matter between a person and his or her diety, not something that should be a public issue.

I would also like to make note of how hard it was to concentrate on this post with those bodacious titties bouncing over the comment box.

Nick, now why would you try to make me die laughing?

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

I was too distracted to make any comment at all.

Is that also why he owned a Bible?

WATCH THESE TWO GODS FUCK THE TASTE OUT OF YOUR SISTERS MOUTH! YOU'LL PAY FOR THE WHOLE SEAT, BUT YOU'LL ONLY USE THE EDGE!

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the way the media works. It is their job to make a big deal out of everything and anything. They scrambled to breathlessly report on the "first Muslim Congressman" when he won the Democratic Primary in June. When he won, some of them literally asked him to prove he was not "one of them", with the clear insinuation that because he is Muslim, he hates America. And so when the "first Muslim Congressman" who could still be "one of them" is going to be sworn in, you can bet your bottom dollar that even if he hadn't announced it (and I'm way too lazy to bother looking it up), it would have been brought up eventually.

And saying he's not required to use any book at all is a cop-out. He's Muslim. Therefore the Koran is important to him. Therefore he wants to be sworn in on it. You're basically giving him shit because he is a religious person, which is way tolerant of you, by the way.

Well, what you have to understand is that politics and religion go together like peas and carrots. It is only government and religion that is supposed to be separate. We will never, ever live in an America where religion is not part of the public debate.

Some could argue that as the first Muslim Congressman, Ellison has a moral duty to make a show of how patriotic he is and how much he loves America while still loving his God. It may go a long way to proving to the Virgil Goodes and Glen Becks of the world that just because you are Muslim, that does not mean you are a terrorist.

Yet others will point out that they whole "not really swearing in on, but posing with the Quran for the photo op" thing is obviously just a whorish publicity stunt and that just because the media might have asked for comment doesn't mean you are obligated to give one.

oooooooh! Sick burn!

Um... separation of church and state, anybody? Why do we do the Bible swearing, anyway? To a decent portion of this country, the Bible is nothing more than a work of fiction (even if it is based on some fact).

Thus, to those people (myself included), it seems rather odd to have government officials and people in court proceedings swear upon a book of lies.

I'm just sayin'.

It's not required, and for the official swearing-in of Congress there are no scriptures used of any kind. It's in private ceremonies that Bibles and Korans are used.