Rep. Virgil Goode (R - VA) I Have a Suggestion...

Stop whatever you are doing. Go to the library. Pick up a copy of the American Constitution. Turn to Amendment 1 (ratified 1791). Actually you know what? How about this, just read this quote, I'll do the leg work for you.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Thank you. Now, please go back to the Hill, and resign, for you have given proof that you do not uphold nor love the constitution that allowed you to be elected in the first place.

Why the anger? Representative Goode recently made these comments. I'll list a few below.

In it, Goode wrote, "When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Quran in any way.

Good, I respect you for that because I happen to believe in the constitution. You don't like the Quran, fine. You want to swear on the bible because you are a Christian, that's great! Freedom of Speech, and Freedom to Exercise your religion. But then you go swiftly downhill. What was this in response to?

Spokesman Linwood Duncan said Goode's letter was written in response to complaints his office received about Minnesota Rep.-elect Keith Ellison's request to be sworn in using the Quran.

Oh, so you want your religious freedom protected, but not anyone else's? Wow, thanks King George/Ahmedinejad/Holy Roman Emperor/Spanish Conquistador. Here's a problem with your logic. Keith Ellison is a Muslim. Therefore, swearing on your Bible means as much to him as swearing on a used Kia means to you. So what if you lie when it's not your holy book? The point of swearing on a holy book is that exactly. It is your holy book, and you would not disgrace it by swearing on it as a lie, it is meant to keep a certain amount of truth on you. More power to him if he's saying that.

Rep. Goode goes on to say we need strong immigration reform or else we will have too many Muslims in this country, and too many Middle Easterners. Wow, so an openly racist and close minded man is going to just blurt something like that out? I suppose the Native Americans should have had the likes of him when the French, Spanish, British, Irish, Italian, Polish...you get the picture. America is "the world's melting pot" so back off Mr. Representative. White Christians aren't the only people who have done good for this country. Remember the guy who invented peanut butter? Go berate your mom for ever feeding you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich because it was helped along by someone with darker skin than you.

He added, "The Ten Commandments and 'In God We Trust' are on the wall in my office. A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Quran.
"My response was clear, 'As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, the Quran is not going to be on the wall of my office.' "

I'm sorry to tell you Mr. Representative, "In God We Trust" is a fairly solid tenant of Islam too. And they think it's the same God. Insha'allah (God willing) accompanies almost any statement they want to come true. Oh and those ten commandments? Also a belief of Islam, and Judaism. You know, ethnic Jews are from the Middle East, right representative? Where is Jerusalem, and the desert Moses wandered around for 40 years? Nevada? Or do you hate the Jews too, since they don't believe in your new testament?

Extremism in any form is a horrible thing to push. Whether you are extremely prejudice, extremely Christian, extremely Muslim, extremely Jewish, extremely alcoholic, extremely partisan; little, if any good comes from that. There is no room for peace in extremism, only subjugation.

Representative, you are a disgrace to the Constitution that you swore to uphold. If an Atheist was elected to congress, and wanted to swear on the life of his first born son, let him. Make someone swear on something that is important to them, not something that they consider of little value.

The people who voted in Keith Ellis did the most American thing they good. I doubt the majority of them were Muslim. They voted him in for him, not his religion. That is how you are supposed to vote. If we elected Representative Goode's model, we would not be any different than any other oppressed country.