What Congressman was just sworn-in using the Amistad Bible or Koran ?

[liberalnurse]

I'm having "brain apnea".


I'm at work talking with a co-worker/Democratic peer. I do believe I read it here on DU a few days ago where one of the new Congressional members use the Bible or Koran of John Adams from the Amistad Trial. Anyone have a link or could one enlightens us?O8)

[Horse with no Name]

1. Keith Ellison

He used a copy of Thomas Jefferson's Koran.

edited to add link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070103/ap_on_go_co/ellison_quran

[liberalnurse]

7. Oh, thank you so much!

Boy, I almost had it................We are discussing your post now!:hi:

[ceile]

2. Deval Patrick used the Amistad Bible

New Gov of MA

[babylonsister]

3. Clyburn:

Clyburn Sworn in to 110th congress- with his hand on a Gullah Bible. Updated at 2:54 PM

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/16411944.htm

Clyburn sworn in with Gullah Bible
DAN HUNTLEY
[e-mail]
When Congressman James Clyburn, D-S.C. was sworn into the 110th Congress last week in Washington, he held his right hand on a Bible.

What was unusual was that it was a Gullah Bible.

Gullah is a Creole language born on Africa's west coast in the 1600s and is still spoken by some slave descendants along the coastal islands of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. Gullah is known as Geechee from Savannah southward.

Clyburn has been instrumental in pushing a Gullah-Geechee Heritage Corridor Act through Congress over the past two years. The program will help preserve and protect historic Gullah-Geechee sites along the coast between Wilmington, N.C. and Jacksonville, Fla. Clyburn is not Gullah, but his wife, Emily, is a Gullah descendant. Clyburn's oath of office was administered by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Clyburn is the first South Carolinian and the second African-American to ever assume majority whip position in Congress.

Clyburn's Gullah Bible has a Charlotte area connection -- it was created in late 2005 at the JAARS Center, a Waxhaw, N.C.-based group that has translated the Bible into more than 610 languages.

[KoKo]

6. Clyburn used a bible translated into "Gullah," an African-American dialect

of Slaves on the Carolina/Georgia Coast.

[babylonsister]

10. That's right; Gullah, not Amistad. My bad. nt

[Sydnie]

4. Deval Patrick, GOV in Mass

used the Amistad Bible.

The Koran used by Ellis belonged to Thomas Jefferson.

[liberalnurse]

9. Thank you as well.........

I sure do appreciate getting help with my discussion. I had half of the facts.....Now I have it all. :dem: :hi:

[Sydnie]

11. More info

"Patrick's wife, Diane, held the Mendi Bible for him as he took the oath. The Bible was given to John Quincy Adams by a group of African captives who staged a mutiny aboard the slave ship Amistad. Quincy successfully argued for their freedom before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841.

''I am descended from people once forbidden their most basic and fundamental freedoms, a people desperate for a reason to hope and willing to fight for it,'' Patrick said. ''Amistad was not just a black man's journey. It was an American journey. This commonwealth, and the nation modeled on it, is at its best when we show we understand a faith in what's possible, and the willingness to work for it."

http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/statemakes5.htm

[liberalnurse]

12. Whoa....this is powerful!

I'm going to show Barbra, my co-worker this post! :wow: :loveya:

[soothsayer]

5. here's some more info (hands on book not required)

In Congress, newly elected representatives do not put their left hands on any book. They raise their right hands, and are sworn in together as the speaker of the House administers the oath of office. Some do carry a book, according to House historians, and some choose to photograph a private swearing-in afterward with their hand on the Bible. One senator is known to have carried an expanded Bible that included the Book of Mormon.

The Constitution says: "The senators and representatives ... shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

Some confusion may come from the long-standing tradition of presidents taking the oath with a hand on the Bible. But this is a choice and matter of custom, as is the phrase, "so help me God." President John Quincy Adams took the oath on a law book including the Constitution. President Theodore Roosevelt didn't use a book.

more here http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1207/p01s03-uspo.html

[liberalnurse]

14. So why does our media

seek out the the cherry-picked, twisted version? This is a beautiful American historical fact.

You don't have to answer that....I'm just ranting a tad. We all live with this media curse.....tabloid MSN.

Great post my friend. :hug:

[underpants]

8. Also don't forget the TWO Buddhists

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=3040985

[liberalnurse]

13. My co-worker, Barb,

she is Buddhist. This thread was inspired by her as we are currently working....( Things are slow at the moment). She is a DU member but rarely visits.....She lets me take the lead and update her on the information. I have a lot of friends that occasionally lurk but are timid to post.