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Air Force drops 'So Help Me God' from oathsBy Todd StarnesTodd's American DispatchPublished November 19, 2013FoxNews.comThe Air Force Academy has admitted they removed the phrase “so help me God” from three oaths in the 2012 edition of their official cadet handbook, Fox News has learned.The revelation came after more than two dozen members of Congress sent a letter to Academy Supt. Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson demanding that she explain why the phrase was removed.The lawmakers contend the 2012 edition of the Contrails Cadet Handbook excludes the phrase ‘so help me God’ in the Cadet’s Oath of allegiance, the Oath of Office for Officers and the Oath of Enlistment.Air Force Academy spokesman Maj. Brus Vidal told me the omission was a simple mistake.“The Constitution does not require that this phrase be scrubbed from the oath,” read the letter drafted by Rep. Jim Bridenstein (R-Okla.) and signed by 28 lawmakers. “The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the establishment of religion’ however, the inclusion of the phrase ‘so help me God’ in an oath of service does not rise to this level.”Bridenstein said “editing the oath for all Academy students is extreme and unnecessary, and does a disservice to the countless individuals who wish to include the phrase as a solemn reminder that they are pledging their fidelity to God and country.”
Sucks to have to live during the transition from a great nation to a God-forsaken banana republic without the banana's!
Quote from: Libertas on November 25, 2013, 06:57:22 AMSucks to have to live during the transition from a great nation to a God-forsaken banana republic without the banana's! As our situation in this Country deteriorates, I have a better understanding of how Germany slid into the Hitler Cult of Personality, thanks to Owebama's Cult of Personality. The main difference I see between us now and Germany then is that we have guns, for the nonce. May the foresight of our Founders, and our aim, save us.
...and right now the Second Amendment is his only impediment.