Freedom of religion stretches across the board

"And not just any Koran. In his private swearing-in ceremony, Ellison had the honor of placing his hand on a copy of the Islamic sacred text owned by Thomas Jefferson, America's greatest advocate of religious liberty. "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man," Jefferson wrote in 1800, after an election in which his own religious views were the subject of intense national debate. Jefferson was constantly accused of being an atheist. He was in fact a deist and a Unitarian. And he believed that it's none of your business."