I ask that out of curiosity and a sincere interest in these knotty matters of religious and government. In our religiously diverse country, what is going to happen in regard situations like this?

State court officers don’t plan to act immediately on an Islamic group’s request to allow use of the Islamic holy book when administering courtroom oaths, an official said Wednesday.

"There is no (statewide) policy … and there is no particular plan in place to write a policy," said Dick Ellis, spokesman for the Administrative Office of the Courts. "We haven’t gotten to the point yet that something has to be done."

Judges in Guilford County told a Greensboro Islamic center last week that they would not allow people to be sworn in with a Quran rather than a Bible.

In response, the Washington-based Council on Amerian-Islamic Relations asked Tuesday for a statewide policy allowing oaths to be taken on the Quran.