After the group American Humanist Association threatened to sue the Air Force on behalf of an atheist Airman, the Air Force immediately removed the requirement to say ‘So Help Me God’ from their enlistment oath.
The Airman was denied re-enlistment after crossing the phrase off the oath on Aug. 25th, prompting the suit.
“We take any instance in which Airmen report concerns regarding religious freedom seriously,” said Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, Air Force Times reported Wednesday. The change in policy goes into effect immediately.
“We are pleased that the U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed our client has a First Amendment right to omit the reference to a supreme being in his reenlistment oath,” Monica Miller, an attorney with the AHA’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center, said in a statement Wednesday, Air Force Times reported. “We hope the Air Force will respect the constitutional rights of Atheists in the future.”
The Army, Navy and Marine Corps all give enlistees the option to say “so help me God.”
Actually Manuel many countries have a policy of no government faith. The US among them.
The countries that are actually in the top rankings of education and lower crime rates are also the countries with the highest rates of atheism…. Hmm
shameful to remove anything with gods name in it then wonder why usa is falling apart read your bible deny him he deny you
Shame on YOU people !
Let’s remove all myths from our lives. Instead let’s focus on things that can be proven
I am glad I took the oath a long time ago and said “so help me God”.
When I took the oath I omitted so help me God because I have a brain
Disgusted with the cowards that run our Air Force, backing down to the scumbag atheists! Maybe they should take some lessons on courage from some of the high school students who have gone to court and won against the atheist gestapo who think they have the right not to be ‘offended’! there is no right to being saved from being offended in the Constitution and it’s about time some people learned it!
It’s better like this, Christian theism only fuels the Muhammadan Dawa brainwash manipulation. Join Globalfirm, human rights the new religion.
Steve maybe they figured out that the constitution has a thing about freedom of religion and to defend the constitution you don’t have to believe in a set of myths
this is dam wrong