Wednesday, Jan. 03, 2007
Keith is paying respect not only to the founding fathers' belief in religious freedom but the Constitution itself.![Close quote](http://img.timeinc.net/time/i/icon_quote2.gif)
- Rick Jauert
- spokesman for Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, who came under attack after he said he wanted to take his private oath of office on a Koran