Fact Check: Swearing and the Bible

Published November 27, 2018 8:32pm ET



A meme of sorts began circulating on Facebook just before Thanksgiving (a plot of preemptive derision by the “Angry Uncle Bot” no doubt) suggesting that because the recently elected congressional representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are Muslim, they cannot therefore be sworn in on the Bible and thus cannot “uphold our constitution due to their faith.”

The post continues by asserting “we are being destroyed within our own country. The Trojan horse has made it into our government.”

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