Virginia: Also Home To Allen, Robertson And Falwell
What the hell is in the water???
Goode: “If American citizens don’t take up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.”
Considering the historical fact that Christians (as a whole) have shown total disregard for Separation of Church and State, I wish the Muslims luck. I just want people in charge who have respect for our Constitution… and maybe America could be shed of the David Duke mentality it has had to endure once and for all.
Lawmaker affirms Muslim remarks
A Virginia congressman defends his call for an immigration crackdown to thwart Koran’s use in swearing-in ceremonies.
WASHINGTON - Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. (R-Va.) on Thursday stood by his demand for strict immigration controls that he said would prevent Muslims from being elected to Congress and using the Koran during swearing-in ceremonies.
Islamic groups in the United States called on Republicans to repudiate Goode’s remarks, which he first made in a letter attacking the use of the holy book in a ceremonial oath-taking next month by the first Muslim elected to the House.
“I do not apologize, and I do not retract my letter,” Goode said emphatically during a session Thursday with reporters in the southern Virginia town of Rocky Mount.
Questioned later on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” he said, “I am for restricting immigration so that we don’t have a majority of Muslims elected to the House of Representatives.”
…“When I raise my hand to take the oath on swearing-in day, I will have the Bible in my other hand,” Goode wrote. “I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way.
“If American citizens don’t take up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.”
…(Incoming House member) Keith Ellison had little to say about the current controversy, instead urging all sides to pay attention to the one document to which everyone at the swearing-in of the new Congress subscribes.
“We all support one Constitution: one Constitution that upholds our right to equal protection, one Constitution that guarantees us due process under the law, one Constitution which says that there is no religious test for elected office in America,” he told CNN.
Source: Joel Havemann, LATimes.com
Filed: Church-State Separation, Faulty Logic, Immigration, Religion
