Congressman Virgil Goode is not Good for America

Rep. Virgil Goode, a Republican who represents the 5th District, triggered angry responses from an Islamic civil rights group and some of his colleagues by his letter to constituents who e-mailed him about a new Minnesota congressman's decision to use the Quran at his private swearing-in ceremony.

I will not be putting my hand on the Quran,"

The Muslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Quran.

He is talking about Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), who ruffled feathers when he decided to swear his oath on the Koran during a private swearing-in ceremony. Ellison said Thursday that Goode and others had nothing to fear about Muslims.

They are our nurses, doctors, husbands, wives, kids, who just want to live and prosper in the American way.
All of us are steadfastly opposed to the same people he's opposed to, which is terrorists, and so there's nothing for him to be afraid of.

Goode is not up on the Constitution which he will have to swear to defend. Article 6 Clause 3 states:

The Senators and Representatives…, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of several States, 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.

An Israeli-American posted this greeting on Goode's website:

As an Israeli-American, who grew up in Israel I’ve seen my share of what hostilities between Islam and the West consist of. In fact, I’ve had a cousin severely wounded by Hezbollah Militants. However, I am greatly disconcerted by your desire to discriminate against another Congressman because he doesn’t share the same beliefs you do. You cannot take all the world’s Muslims (about 1/6 of the planet mind you) and roll them up with a handful of extremists. It would be similar to making the assumption that all Christians are bigots because one idiotic Congressman from the 5th District of Virginia professes to be both.

I am personally in favor of greater controls on immigration, but raising the educational standards for Congressfolk appears to be a more urgent matter.