Today in Dumbassery

Today's edition comes from Roy "You Can Pry My 10,000 lb Stone Ten Commandments From My Cold Dead Hands" Moore. His latest sumbission to the dumbassery files comes via your favorite wingnut propaganda machine and mine, WND (what else?). Roy has a "special comment" on the newly-elected Keith Ellison and the oath on the Qu'ran. Here is what Roy spews forth:

Placing his hand on the Holy Scriptures, Washington recognized the God who had led our Pilgrim fathers on their journey across the Atlantic in 1620 and who gave our Founding Fathers the impetus to begin a new nation in 1776. [...]

Thus began a long tradition that extended both to state and federal government of acknowledging the Judeo-Christian God as the source of our law and liberty. Today, some believe that it does not matter what we believe or before Whom we take our oath. But as Keith Ellison is demonstrating, it does matter.

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To support the Constitution of the United States one must uphold an underlying principle of that document, liberty of conscience, which is the right of every person to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience, without interference by the government. [...]It was a specific God who endowed us with a freedom of conscience with which government could not interfere.

The Islamic faith rejects our God and believes that the state must mandate the worship of its own god, Allah. [...]

Then he bleats on about how "no Muslim elected to Congress or the White House can swear to uphold the United States Constitution and still be a Muslim, because the law of Allah as expressed in the Quran is supreme."

Don't you see? Not only should he not get to swear on the Qu'ran--he should not be able to hold office at all. He outright says it:

Our Constitution states, "Each House [of Congress] shall be the judge ... of the qualifications of its own members." Enough evidence exists for Congress to question Ellison's qualifications to be a member of Congress as well as his commitment to the Constitution...

Not only does Moore say that, he adds this bit:

Perhaps Ellison is confused about what he believes, or else he has another agenda.

Oooh, another agenda. Gee, Roy, you haven't been sublte through this whole nonsense, why start now? Just come out and call him a terrorist.

Oh...wait:

But common sense alone dictates that in the midst of a war with Islamic terrorists we should not place someone in a position of great power who shares their doctrine. In 1943, we would never have allowed a member of Congress to take their oath on "Mein Kampf," or someone in the 1950s to swear allegiance to the "Communist Manifesto." Congress has the authority and should act to prohibit Ellison from taking the congressional oath today!

Ugh.

So, Roy, in all your frothing about God and the Constitution and that one comes from the other have you forgotten--what, with being a judge and all--that the Constitution forms a secular document, and nowhere does it appeal to God, Christianity, Jesus, or any supreme being? The U.S. government derives from the People --not your or any other God--as it clearly states in the preamble, you self-important, delusional, paranoid, superstitious asshat.