Congresswoman did not swear oath on a Bible

[quaker bill]

120. Quakers encompass a very broad range of faith

The Evangelical Friends in California and the southwest are very much more like Pentacostals, they are fundamentalists of the strictest sort. Words often used to describe them include "severe". They view the "unprogrammed" Friends you are likely more familiar with in the harshest terms. We do not get along. They are none the less called "Quakers".

Birthright Friends are simply that, just as it sounds. They are members by right of birth to Quaker parents. One never even needs to attend a Meeting to have and keep this status. The importance of this has declined among "unprogrammed" Friends by the practice still exists, and indeed my daughter is a member recorded by "birthright". She will remain a member unless she renounces it and the Meeting minutes its acceptance of this statement. Alternately, a Meeting may "write someone out of Meeting". This is a very rare practice these days, but Nixon's Meeting attempted it, however could never reach unity on this. So he was in fact a "Quaker" who never darkened the doorway of a Meeting.

I do not think he found swearing oaths to be a challenge at all, and it would seem that violating the oaths sworn posed little challenge for him either.