In his December 13 WorldNetDaily column, Judge Roy Moore attacked newly elected congressman Keith Ellison because he “shocked many Americans by declaring that he would take his oath of office by placing his hand on the Quran rather than the Bible.”
But as was repeatedly pointed out when Dennis Prager made the same accusation, the official swearing-in of members of Congress is not done on a Bible or a Quran — or any religious book, for that matter — it’s done en masse. Members occasionally pose for photos with their hand on a Bible, but there is nothing official about them, and they are unrelated to the actual swearing-in.