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.”
Obama is a monster out to destroy us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLoUq8vybzY understand he swore on this and i say each and every plane with an athiest pilot falls to the earth
We have Christians being murdered and butchered in the Middle East, prayers at school leading to actual punishments, this story, and yet, if I speak out about how truly evil Islam is, I am labeled a racist bigot and told how wonderful Islam is and that we must repeat their religion
Shouldn”t have caved.
they want mohamed instead
Wimps
Big mistake
This is BULL$#%&!@*.
I’m ashamed of the air force they should have not backed down
remove the atheist..what wimps the other airmen are for not standing up for this.