He probably wouldn't vote for a Mormon either.

Demagpguery is alive and well in Virginia. I don't know anything about Keith Ellison except his religion and his party, neither of which makes me inclined to like him, but the oath of office doesn't require any book or reference to God. So what difference does it make if he wants to put his hand on the Koran or the telephone directory? (Mormons don't place their hands on the Book of Mormon for oaths, btw. We believe in the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price, and "We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.")

Scott Johnson makes a more coherent argument for whether a follower of Louis Farrakhan can be trusted to put the Constitution ahead of, say, sharia law. It should also be noted that while Mr. Ellison is the first Muslim to be elected to Congress, there have been others of Middle Eastern abstraction, which Mr. Ellison is not, in politics here for years.