Posted on 09/11/2014 10:02:23 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic
The Stephen Losey (Air Force Times) reports (see also the American Humanist Association’s letter to the Air Force Inspector General):
An atheist airman at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada was denied reenlistment last month for refusing to take an oath containing “so help me God,” the American Humanist Association said Thursday….
Air Force Instruction 36-2606 spells out the active-duty oath of enlistment, which all airmen must take when they enlist or reenlist and ends with “so help me God.” The old version of that AFI included an exception: “Note: Airmen may omit the words ‘so help me God,’ if desired for personal reasons.”
That language was dropped in an Oct. 30, 2013, update to the AFI. The relevant section of that AFI now only lists the active-duty oath of enlistment, without giving airmen any option to choose not to swear an oath to a deity.
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Good questions.
Personally, I would not even WANT to deploy with someone who didn’t think the CIC, our CIC was legal.
The application and enforcement of immigration lay by the POTUS is part of a LONG tradition of presidents ignoring congress and SCOTUS (Andrew Jackson “the chief Justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it”, the bad precedent set by ‘signing statements’); don’t like it, but this current President is hardly the first to ignore anyone they choose.
There is already a way around this. This is flim-flam bluster with no basis in reality. It’s no different than a Jew being allowed to wear a yarmulke. A request is registered with a commander for an accommodation.
It’s that simple.
Thanks.
If God cares, let him sort it out.
are sure you are on the proper forum......you write like a radicalized liberal....
“are sure you are on the proper forum......you write like a radicalized liberal....”
Vietnam war veteran .... you?
back further than that...
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