{"id":854,"date":"2007-01-06T14:26:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T19:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/01\/06\/1168111578540.html"},"modified":"2007-01-06T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T19:26:18","slug":"blogentry-a-christian-a-muslim-and-a-buddhist-all-go-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] A Christian, a Muslim and a Buddhist all go to Congress&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I don&#039;t blog politics, but I think this story&#039;s got a punch line that&#039;s right up my alley.  You may have heard the who big issue with <a href=&#034;http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/01\/04\/ellison-koran&#034;>Rep Keith Ellison (D-MN) taking his oath on a Quran instead of a Bible<\/a>.  Even better, it was a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson.  This made big news because Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) made a big stink over it, saying that if you&#039;re gonna swear in on a book, it should be the Bible.  Even though the Constitution clearly says &#034;no religious test shall be required&#034;, in other words you can&#039;t make somebody swear on a religious text.  (Technically the official swearing in is done with no book at all &#8212; the issue is about what book they use for the traditional photo opportunity that happens after the fact).<\/p>\n<p\/>Anyway, what&#039;s the punchline again?  It&#039;s done, it&#039;s over, he swore in, the world didn&#039;t end.  What I like about the story is Rep Mazie Hirono, one of two <a href=&#034;.\/search.action?query=buddhism&#034;>Buddhists<\/a> to be sworn in during this election, <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/0104buddhist-ON.html&#034;>opted not to have a book at all, saying &#034;Whatever happened to the separation of Church and State?&#034;<\/a><\/p>\n<p\/>Love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I don&#039;t blog politics, but I think this story&#039;s got a punch line that&#039;s right up my alley. You may have heard the who big issue with Rep Keith Ellison (D-MN) taking his oath on a Quran instead of a Bible. Even better, it was a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson. This made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}