So ANYONE with the Nads to take oath on the CONSTITUTION?

[Ouabache]

that's what I want to know.
Anyone, EITHER party, willing to take their congressional oath of office with a hand on the CONSTITUTION?

That would take real balls and my guess is it is more likely a woman democrat would be most likely to do it.
hell, all the Republicans might as well have been taking their oath on 'Alice in Wonderland' this past 6 years.

[beaconess]

1. I think that would be rather circular, since they're swearing to UPHOLD the Constitution

It would be strange to swear on the Consitution to uphold the Constitution.

[recoveringdittohed]

2. How about Federalist Papers?

A couple of weeks ago on George Stephanopolous' show George Will said if he were ever elected to office he would choose to be sworn in on the Federalist Papers.

Of course as Will is a pundit rather than a politician he is speaking hypothetically so we'll never know if he would have the guts to not be sworn in on a Bible.

[Conscious Confucius]

I'd take it on the Bhagavad Gita.

To symbolize allegience to more than just white Americans.

[Conscious Confucius]

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[Jack Rabbit]

4. The official ceremony uses no book at all

Members of Congress are sworn in officially en masse with each raising his right and repeating the oath.

An unofficial private ceremony for family and friends is optional. At that ceremony, the individual Congressman may be sworn in on a book or document of his choice, with the member's family Bible being most preferred.

It seems a non-sequitur to suppose that member of Congress doesn't have "the Nads" to be sworn in on the Constitution or the Federalist Papers rather than a Bible (or, in at least one notable case today, the Koran) in an unofficial ceremony. We should assume that those individuals who chose to be sworn in on a Bible (or an English translation of the Koran, in Mr. Ellison's case) did so because they wanted to use a Bible in the ceremony.

Each of these men and women are within his rights to choose an object of meaning to him. It should not be surprising to anyone that a person of more than nominal religious conviction should choose to be sworn in on a sacred text of his faith, the Bible in the case of Christians. Anyone who insists that it would have been more proper for any member who chose a Bible to have used something else is every bit as out of line as was Mr. Goode or Mr. Prager in insisting the Mr. Ellison use a Bible instead of a Koran.

[ashling]

5. I'm still envious of Congressman Ellison

getting to touch a book that blonged to Thomas Jefferson. WOW!
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[SanCristobal]

6. STOP TRYING TO TAKE JESUS OUT OF OUR GOVERNMENT!

You secular progressives are all the same! The Constitution has not place in the government established by the Constitution!