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.”
This is just BS. This country was founded on religious persecution.People came here from around the world to worship in peace without fear of retaliation from those who didn’t believe as they did. I will praise the Lord my God till my dying breath when ever and where ever I am. Look at the Christians in Syria that Isis is beheading. Women, children and babies. If you don’t like it here get the hell out no one is making you stay and any lawyers that defend those non believers in getting Under God or In God We Trust taken away from the rest of us, you can all go straight to HELL……Let me buy you a one way ticket back to wherever you came from. We don’t need you here. How do you put your head on your pillow at night??????????????????
THIS IS A RELIGIOUS COUNTRY AND WE WANT TO KEEP IT THAT WAY ,AND I AM ASHAMED AT THE AIR FORCE .
A BAD MISTAKE
Quit caving.
That’s a No Go AF!
Others no fight at all in AF command,if you can even call it command bunch of pu##ys
Why would they do this? It’s been in our oath for many years and should NEVER be taken out of of anything!
Bull butter.
Pussies get offended by mere words
You allow one individual to change what is part of our country? I was always taught that the majority ruled. All he has to do is keep his big mouth shut if it is so offensive to him.