There are, I’m sure, many reports on the swearing in of new members of Congress. I’ll use ursulafaw’s report on The Daily Kos, just because it’s convenient:
Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib asked to be sworn into the House of Representatives using a Koran once owned by Thomas Jefferson in lieu of a Bible and the proverbial s*it hit the fan. To add a comic spin to the proceeding, none other than evangelical wingnut Vice President Mike Pence conducted the swearing in where this (undoubtedly to his mind) heretical request was made.
Etc etc (in the usual progressive patronizing tone of voice). Another new member used a law book, which motivates me to say:
ALMOST, BUT NOT QUITE.
Look, we’re a secular nation, and these folks are taking an oath to defend the Constitution, etc etc. So why the hell aren’t they, that is, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM, taking it on [a copy of] the Constitution? It’d be affirming, far less divisive, and all that rot.
No?
