You Don’t Need to Take an Oath on a Bible, or Any Religious Text - The New York Times

It was an odd footnote to the Alabama Senate race Tuesday night. In an interview on CNN, hours before the Republican candidate Roy S. Moore would go on to lose the election, his spokesman asserted that elected officials in the United States were required to take the oath of office on a Christian Bible.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/us/politics/roy-moore-bible-ted-crockett.html