- Who's have guessed?
Posted on 09/15/2016 12:48:44 PM PDT by V K Lee
WASHINGTON – Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell, appointed by President Obama to the District Court for the District of Columbia, left out “so help me God” while administering the Oath of Allegiance at a naturalization ceremony Wednesday.
Howell asked the new U.S. citizens to raise their right hand and “repeat the ‘Oath of Allegiance’ after me.”
According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the oath goes: "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”
When presiding over the ceremony at the National Archives in Washington, Howell omitted “so help me God” at the end of the oath. She then congratulated the new U.S. citizens and said they may be seated.
Title 8 of the Code of Federal Regulations provides for a religious exemption, stating in part, “When a petitioner or applicant for naturalization, by reason of religious training and belief (or individual interpretation thereof), or for other reasons of good conscience, cannot take the oath prescribed in paragraph (a) of this section with the words ‘on oath’ and ‘so help me God’ included, the words ‘and solemnly affirm’ shall be substituted for the words ‘on oath,’ the words ‘so help me God’ shall be deleted, and the oath shall be taken in such modified form.”
Judge Howell did not mention the phrase “and solemnly affirmed” while administering the oath Wednesday. U.S. Code does not outline the specific rules for the official or judge presiding over a mass public naturalization ceremony when one or more new citizens requests a religious exemption.
Today's event was held to honor the 229th anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution.
PJM reached out to the National Archives press office as well as USCIS about the omission of “so help me God,” but had not received a response before press time.
President Obama appointed Howell to the District Court on Dec. 27, 2010. In 2014, Howell rejected a challenge to Obama’s executive actions that would have provided work permits to undocumented immigrants who met certain requirements. However, the Supreme Court later blocked Obama’s executive actions from taking effect in June of this year.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, an immigrant originally from Czechoslovakia, said the new citizens have a "solemn responsibility" to defend America against its foes, which is part of the Oath of Allegiance.
God willing, this woman will be disbarred due to her unqualified status.
Dont think so. She was also appointed to US Sent Comm by Bush in 2005
I would say that the citizenship of these people is not valid.
In my opinion, if the oath is spelled out and what is spelled is not recited ... they have not become citizens
That’s because they are probably sharia-loving immigrants that are offended by the One God of our country.
Too bad the judge isn’t impeached.
Their hatred for God and every principle which has given us all the blessings of the United States is becoming more and more openly apparent every day.
She’s also a lesbian. Most homosexuals are atheist hence the non-reference to God.
It is Marxism-—removal of EVERYTHING-—all our Traditions, all our ideology, all our Theology-—for erasing our Worldview in the next generation since ONLY Christianity created the end of slavery, pederasty (sodomy), etc-—everything the Satanists (Marxists) desire for the NWO——bunch of sheeple-—cattle to be totally controlled and eliminated at will by the elites.
To make us dumb and erase our Free Will—they have done it with the “skools” which destroy critical thinking since the communist John Dewey destroyed the American “education” system and forced young children away from their Natural parents-—true teachers-—into a system of dependency and emotional emasculation of all boys-—to make them into little victims—neutered, sex-obsessed, embedded with dependency (permission even to go pee), so they are corrupted and easily controlled.
Vice makes Slaves (Socrates/Aristotle). They have known in Western Civ that without Virtue formation in children (Classical Christian Ed ONLY)—there is no ability to think in a logical, rational way. Ignorance is a vice and makes people easily duped and controlled.
Christianity is the most Just and most rational religion in the history of the World. That is why it is targeted—to be WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH (Satan’s Dream)
Christianity is the ONLY Theology which teaches Free Will (non-Calvinists) and Individualism (Natural Rights to EVERYONE—even the weakest, unborn and old.
The Marxists need to be able to kill off millions...billions actually....which is Satan’s dream-—to be able to sacrifice and sodomize little children in their Bohemian Grove Rites-—and Ba’al Rites. Marxism is Satanism-—total Mind Control of all children so they will be unable to “think” for themselves.
Google 1810 Fichte “Snow is Black” quote. It was ALL planned 200 years ago.
Christianity is the ONLY Theology which teaches Free Will (non-Calvinists) and Individualism (Natural Rights to EVERYONE—even the weakest, unborn and old.
And those natural rights? what is the source?
And I don’t think it is so much Free Will as THY will.
But I do agree completely with your opening sentence.
You synopsize beautifully and I wanted the language in my head.
I grew up READING.
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