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thingsthatlaughinthenight:

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rafi-dangelo:

Roy Moore Spokesman Ted Crockett: Muslims can’t serve because you have to swear in on a Bible.
Jake Tapper: There’s no law that says you have to swear in on a Bible.
Crockett: *shitshitshitshitshitTHINKMANTHINK*
Tapper: You do know that right?
Crockett: *justfinishstrongmanyoucandothis* WELL DONALD TRUMP

I saw this live. I was stunned

Is that true !?! You can swear on the quran for the inauguration to become the president of the United States ?! Guess I have some homework

Yes, because America is not a Christian nation. It was never supposed to have a state religion. As long as you’re a United States citizen and you meet the age and service requirements for President of the United States, you have every right to run.

UPDATE on HOMEWORK:

This what I found( cut and pasted ):

“Theodore Roosevelt did not use a Bible when taking the oath in 1901. Both John Quincy Adams and Franklin Pierce swore on a book of law, with the intention that they were swearingon the constitution. Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in on a Roman Catholic missal on Air Force One”

I had no idea, I like the swearing on the book of law. Like @thunder-the-great said, we aren’t supposed to have a state religion.

The Constitution specifically forbids any religious test to hold office.  You can swear on anything or nothing at all.  You don’t even have to swear, the Constitution specifically says you can affirm.

Lan Diep of the San Jose city council swore on Captain America’s shield. You can literally swear on anything or nothing.

Pretty sure that after one of the last Congressional elections, there was an atheist who was sworn in with a book printing of the Constitution, which is absolutely the route I would choose, myself.

Also, if you swear in on a bible and you’re not Christian, you don’t burst into flame, or anything. Holy books, texts, and symbols are not boobytraps that those of different faiths cannot touch without being forced to convert on the spot, or be imprisoned or killed. That is still a completely dipshit reason to say that Muslims can’t hold American offices, even without there being a law to use a bible.

“But if they swear on a bible, it won’t mean anything to them!” Well, it doesn’t mean anything to you, either, or you wouldn’t keep refusing to heal the sick and feed the hungry.

As I said before.

We wrote the Constitution to protect FREEDOM OF RELIGION, not a SPECIFIC religion. Christians are trying to make this country Christian, when it was never meant to be. It was meant to be a haven.