Do you think it's wrong for our( U.S.)government to swear in elected officials under the quran?

Question

I hope I've spelled it right?

Answer 1

I have seen a lot of different spellings of the Koran.
With all the B.S. about religion, separation of church and state, can't say "Christmas trees", can't have Easter, then, no, they should not be allowed to "swear in elected officials under the quaran". If an allegedly Christian nation is not allowed to celebrate any Christian holidays, none of the other religions should be allowed any thing more.

Answer 2

Article VI of the US Constitution states:

•The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

The only oath taken is to the US Constitution; not the Bible, not Quran, not any religious document.

Even having a Congressional Chaplain is a violation of the ‘establishment’ language of the Constitution – but then, that is only the opinion of the men who wrote and signed the document.

James Madison (Father of the US Constitution) addressed the issues of Congressional Chaplains and the separation of Church and State:

•“Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative."

•"The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives”

•“The establishment of the chaplainship to Congs is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles”

•Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and & Gov't in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history (Detached Memoranda, circa 1820).

•Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together (Letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822).

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_religions64.html

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This is reaffirmed by the unamimous vote of the 1797 US Congress and the signing into law by President John Adams of:

•“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,…”

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm

Answer 3

No, it is not. In the first place, the swearing-in does not require the use of any sacred text--the use (and the choice) of such texts is up to the person being sworn in.

In the second place, Article6 of the Constittution clearly states that religion may not be used as a basis for holding public office in the United States.

There is only one kind of person who would object to a Muslim using the Qu'ran: a religious bigot-and therefore, someoe who is profoundly anti-American and who has no loyalty to America's values, traditions, or institutions.

Answer 4

Not if they want to be sworn in under the Koran. Think about it, the only reason Christians are sworn in on a bible is that they would rather die than break an oath that they make on the bible. A muslim would not consider himself bound to follow an oath that he swears on a bible, but he WOULD consider himself bound to follow an oath he swears on the Koran.

Answer 5

Which do they prefer?
Swear with " Over my dead body"
Who is past living human kind like you and me?
Was past "Dirty old man".
John 8.44
Or "In God we trust"
Our creator's universal gifts of life in living words.
Exodus 20. 1-2
Leviticus 26.13
Getting kick on the butts as casualty of the dead Mummy in not worshiping God in climbing up the coconut trees and still look green?
Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49
What do you think?

Answer 6

Nope, freedom of religion.

Answer 7

No, it is their right.....for a person should be judged on her/his character, not on their religious beliefs

Answer 8

http://www.islamawareness.net/Miq/