Tip-Toeing Through the Controversy
Deborah Venable
12/06/06
Keith
Ellison – is there anyone who does not know who he is? What were the people of Minnesota thinking
when they elected this guy to the United States Congress? Have the pickings gotten so small up there
that they had to settle, or were they railroaded. Or perhaps have THEY railroaded the rest of the country? What is the percentage of Muslim voters in
that district? Anyone know? I could do the research I suppose, but what
good would it do any of us at this point?
At
a time when this country continues to attack itself, its founding religion, and
its heritage on a daily basis, we now find that too many people are tip-toeing
around offending the Muslim religion of one Keith Ellison, Democrat
Representative-elect from Minnesota, because he made a big deal out of taking
his ceremonial oath on the Quran and not the Bible. Even though the oath he will be taking goes directly against the
book he wishes to swear it on, we are not supposed to question his motives or
deny him the opportunity to make this hokey symbolic gesture. Now, that makes a lot of sense, doesn’t
it? But, he claims he is “a patriot” so
that’s alright.
Probably
the most famous opponent of this absurdity is Dennis Prager, a
nationally recognized editorialist and radio and television personality. He has written a couple of articles on the
subject and has been interviewed a number of times. This has earned him the ire of the Counsel on American Islamic
Relations and others, who believe Mr. Prager should be removed from his
presidential appointment to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. (A noteworthy aside is that Dennis Prager is
a Jew.)
The
bottom line is that sometimes diplomacy just doesn’t work. Mr. Prager’s stance is thoughtful and well
stated, but that makes no difference to his obvious enemies.
Here’s
the deal: Mr. Ellison should have never
been elected to our federal body of lawmakers because HE has made it obvious
where his greatest loyalties lie, and that goes against the very document that
allowed him to be elected with “no religious test” for holding office in the
first place.
When
is reason going to prevail in this horrible climate of political correctness
over good sense?
I
direct your attention once again to those ever perplexing Communist
Goals,
specifically Goal numbers 13 and 29:
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate,
old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation
between nations on a worldwide basis.
If
somebody else doesn’t start tying all this stuff up in the neat little package
that it is and sending it out to the garbage bin, this country will not survive
another decade. We cannot continue to
tip-toe around these issues, make excuses, and rationalize why we should turn
our backs on everything America has stood for.
We cannot continue to make allowances for every religion and every
philosophy except that which was incorporated in our founding and hope to end
up with anything that resembles freedom in this country.
If
you think I’m full of it, I would invite you to read this article and take note of the obvious solution
to the whole Ellison problem.
Excerpt
from article:
"The Senate and House
have the power to seat new members," says Mark Levin of the Landmark Legal
Foundation in Washington. "They could say, 'Nope, sorry, we're not
swearing you in, and we don't care how many citizens voted for you."
But that is unlikely to
happen, he says, "because they would never challenge the electorate,"
even in time of war.
Hey, I thought “challenging the electorate” in this day and age
was a perfectly accepted practice - by the Democrat Party especially.