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acroyear"Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible." - Law Professor (and State Senate Candidate) Jamie Raskin to MD Senator Nancy Jacobs.
update: It is a variation on a phrase attributed to Pat Robertson (saying the opposite, that Supreme Court Justices *should* swear to uphold the bible), though the only online attribution is a single column - Rev. Rich Lang: 'George Bush and the rise of Christian Fascism' - which has been copied repeatedly throughout the web. Most other sites that use the quote generally credit it to this article, though no copy of the article itself actually cites the Robertson reference. And actually, some versions of the sermon, alledgedly given on February of 2004, don't even have the paragraph in question, which seems to have shown up in a June 2004 updated version.
update: It is a variation on a phrase attributed to Pat Robertson (saying the opposite, that Supreme Court Justices *should* swear to uphold the bible), though the only online attribution is a single column - Rev. Rich Lang: 'George Bush and the rise of Christian Fascism' - which has been copied repeatedly throughout the web. Most other sites that use the quote generally credit it to this article, though no copy of the article itself actually cites the Robertson reference. And actually, some versions of the sermon, alledgedly given on February of 2004, don't even have the paragraph in question, which seems to have shown up in a June 2004 updated version.
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Date: 2006-03-15 05:13 pm (UTC)