Buddhist, Hindu Make History With Elections To Congress

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Tuesday's elections brought two historic firsts for religion in American politics: A Buddhist senator and a Hindu representative -- both from Hawaii -- will join Congress.

Democrat Mazie Hirono beat former Gov. Linda Lingle (R), making Hirono the first Buddhist in the Senate. In Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District, Democrat Tulsi Gabbard defeated

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[cinnamontoast]

This is so awesome. Seriously. It makes me happy to see actual religious freedom in practice.

[redstar826]

We had a good candidate running in my congressional district who happened to be Muslim. He was attacked by the other side for it pretty badly and called a 'Muslim extremist' and all that nonsense. He lost and the guy who won is a really awful tea bagger who is so extreme that the Republican Party actually tried to defeat him in the primary.

[othellia]

I love my state and the people in it. <3

[sandstorm]

[layweed]

in b4 christians crying oppression and throwing "judeo-christian values" out the window.

[yamamanama]

I'm sure Free Republic's foaming at the mouth over this. They've pretty much gone full-on racist since Wednesday morning.

[mirhanda]

Sexist as well. I saw some over there railing against the 19th amendment.

[yamamanama]

I think they've always been like that