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This came up in another thread, where some asked about having to swear on the bible in a court. I checked with my friend who is a trial lawyer and he confirmed that there are many ways to swear an oath -- you can swear on a bible, you can affirm an oath, he even mentioned one case where a Chinese person requested a traditional form of swearing an oath in China, it involved live chickens... and there are more.
The point being that this sort of thing happens *all the time*. People make oaths by swearing by things that have meaning to them.
Again, the only people making a big deal about this are those on the right who wish to disparage Paul Martin's choice of GG. Remember there is an election in our very near future.
By the way, I haven't seen this story anywhere on the news. I did a Google News search and didn't find anything either. Could it be that this was on only covered in the Sun?
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