Goode (R-Virginia) thinks Muslims shouldn't be in Congress
Nice piece of Christianist bigotry right out in the open here: Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Virginia) sent this letter out to hundreds (HT: shock on Kos):
Yo: all you people who don't think there's a Christianist movement to enshrine one particular monotheistic delusion in the heart of our Democracy should wake up. It's pretty frickin' obvious. The don't believe in that whole "no religious test" thing in that moldy old document--what's it called--oh yeah, the Constitution.
UPDATE: Keith Ellison (the Muslim Democratic Representative-elect from MN) responds to this wingnuttery with much more graciousness than I do.
Thank you for your recent communication. When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way. The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don’t wake 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.[...]God forbid that an incoming representative should be Muslim and swear an oath on the text he considers sacred. (Actually, God won't be forbidding it, because she doesn't exist.) We should make him swear using the Bible; that'll make him take his oath of office seriously. Never mind that the ceremony doesn't require any book at all.
Yo: all you people who don't think there's a Christianist movement to enshrine one particular monotheistic delusion in the heart of our Democracy should wake up. It's pretty frickin' obvious. The don't believe in that whole "no religious test" thing in that moldy old document--what's it called--oh yeah, the Constitution.
UPDATE: Keith Ellison (the Muslim Democratic Representative-elect from MN) responds to this wingnuttery with much more graciousness than I do.
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