[Public] Dennis Prager update
Dec. 13th, 2006 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Remember this spluttering freakout from a couple of weeks back? Dennis Prager says that the Bible is the book upon which American society is founded and all that, and if Keith Ellison is allowed to swear his oath of office on the Q’ran, it’s going to be the end of civilization as we know it?
(Never mind that representatives don’t actually take their oath on any book - in fact they do it en masse and the other stuff is just for publicity photos, and never mind that Prager’s suggestion that (assuming that they do take their oath on something) that book HAS to be the Bible would violate the No Religious Test clause.)
No, what I’m really posting to tell you is that Dennis Prager is Jewish. You heard me right. He’s a Brooklyn-living, yeshiva-attending Jewish boy.
And for that, I have been instructed to tell you all, my husband and I are very, very sorry. If it’s any consolation, the President has been asked to remove him from the board of the Holocaust Museum and smack has been laid from various other fronts as well.
(Never mind that representatives don’t actually take their oath on any book - in fact they do it en masse and the other stuff is just for publicity photos, and never mind that Prager’s suggestion that (assuming that they do take their oath on something) that book HAS to be the Bible would violate the No Religious Test clause.)
No, what I’m really posting to tell you is that Dennis Prager is Jewish. You heard me right. He’s a Brooklyn-living, yeshiva-attending Jewish boy.
And for that, I have been instructed to tell you all, my husband and I are very, very sorry. If it’s any consolation, the President has been asked to remove him from the board of the Holocaust Museum and smack has been laid from various other fronts as well.
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Date: 2006-12-13 04:31 pm (UTC)