(Martin Luther King Jr, Barbara Walters and Anne Frank)
Posted on 12/08/2013 6:53:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As a host of the daytime talk show "The View," Barbara Walters questioned why politicians, including the presidents, swear on a Bible while taking office when there is separation of church and state.
"That is very true, but it starts almost with the oath of office which usually ends with 'So help me God,'" Walters said during the talk show, after actress Jane Seymour's remarks over a new political ad by Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas in which he apologizes for backing President Barack Obama's signature health care law, or "Obamacare," and also highlights the importance of the Bible in politics.
Seymour told the hosts of the show Thursday: "I think it's really unfortunate when you have to bring religion into politics. I think religion is a very personal thing, a very personal thing."
"Now, most presidents swear on a Bible before taking office, even though we have the separation between church and state," Walters continued during the talk show, which has aired on ABC since 1997.
"You see it again and again," Walters said during the show which focuses on a panel of five female co-hosts who discuss social and political issues. "You don't have to use a Bible. Teddy Roosevelt didn't. John Quincy Adams swore on a law book and Lyndon Johnson took the oath on a book he thought was the Bible. We don't know what the book was ... We talk about the separation between church and state and almost every president ends up saying so help me God."
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I was under the impression it wasn’t swearing unless it was on a Bible. (Otherwise it is affirmation).
This is the first I’ve heard that JQA swore on a law book.
Previously I heard that only Franklin Pierce had used the affirmation option.
http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/swearing-in/bibles
Hmm...the story about JQA appears to be true....no mention though about Pierce affirming.
Nope. Wasn’t joking at all. I have heard that chatter, too. It wouldn’t surprise me at all, either.
That’s some honker nose shes got going
Shes obviously going senile
It was for Keith Eliison who took his oath of office on a quran.
However, had he researched it, he might have found that Thomas Jefferson studied that particular book to understand more of the muslim mind before dispatching forces that eventually defeated the islamic sand-fleas in the wars of the Barbary pirates.
Barbara Wawa sleep her way to the top and had a particular fondness for BLACK politicians, one senator in particular.
Ok, so I need to partially retract me earlier statement. From
Sen Brook’s perspective Baba Wawa wasn’t, probably, a waste of human flesh ...
Oh, and I now have the image of Bernadette Peters yelling “Its Twue, it’s TWUE” stuck in my head.
Thanks.
(Martin Luther King Jr, Barbara Walters and Anne Frank)
That old witch had better mend her ways, pronto. Her face-to-face appointment with her creator can’t be that far off.
Madeline Khan, not Bernadette Peters ... ugh, damn you old age!
Yes sir. My apologies. Indeed it was Madeline Kahn.
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