Posted on 10/24/2013 7:11:50 AM PDT by markomalley
The U.S. Air Force Academy may drop a religious reference from an oath cadets take to swear allegiance to the school's honor code.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has protested the "so help me God" phrase that was added to the end of an oath that has cadets swearing they won't lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do.
According to the Colorado Springs Gazette, the religious freedom foundation says tying the honor code to a religious test violates the U.S. Constitution.
The full oath reads:
I, (name), having been appointed an Air Force cadet in the United States Air Force, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
At Navy it was always an option of “So help me.” or “So help me God.” I think they are just making things up for press now.
Mikey is a professional agitator and a disgrace to all Academy graduates everywhere. I am ‘92 from USAFA...this outcome will be predictable. The brass will be told to remove it and they will cower and obey. Federal Law requires the oath and the oath is codefied in law. However, military regulations can make the ‘so help me God’ optional. Of course, what’s a little thing like obeying a law these days to the statists and those kneeling at the alter of political correctness? If USAFA leadership has a backbone they’d just say they are following Federal Law and tell Mikey to stuff it.
The other issue here is the little turd reporter from the CS Indy paper who took the press release granted him/her by the Academy and sent it to Mikey. The CS Indy and that reporter should be banned from all Academy related activities. Communists all...
“...they did not wish to retain God in their knowledge....”
We had a legit wiccan in our platoon in Basic. He was by far the most screwed up kid there. It was his second time through Basic due to an integrity violation. I was older so the Drill Sgt kind of told me to give him a hand. I tried. I’d be surprised if he’s still alive. It’s basically devil worship. At least what he was doing.
“Your invisible friend in the clouds does not exist!”
I always say, “So help me God” when being sworn to an oath, otherwise you have no oath.
If you separate God from America you dissolve America.
Who makes the decision?
Might as well drop him rhetorically. He’s already been dropped indeed
You’d think someone who went to a military academy would be mature. Not Weinstein I guess.
Too bad Mikey Weinstein didn’t exist in another era... in another place and time... like on a landing craft crossing the English Channel en route to the fortified beaches of Normandy. He wouldn’t be quite so ready to cast God aside.
The strategic vision of the left... a dead, destroyed America.
They are right up there with homosexuals who piss me off to no frigging end.
CLOSE IT DOWN!
It is now antithetical to our interests as citizens.
You may want to re-think that one, n00b!
rofl
The academy grounds, almost all of its structures, most of its memorabilia ... are all religious artifacts of all U.S. air forces histories under God.
The recent years’ presentments of indictments against God, if the U.S. Air Force succumbs, requires that all such artifacts be closed, destroyed, and or removed from the site ... and the same for all government and state museums.
Let it be so - let these puffed up heads of state and military, choose to cut themselves off ... but they cannot have along with their decision, the glory nor the honor of that which they haven’t the guts to attain nor hold.
Thank you for your duty.
My father was a plank owner, and our history with the U.S. air forces and U.S. naval air forces ... goes all the way back to 1906.
I am thankful that my father is not around to see the U.S. air forces and U.S. naval air forces self-destruct.
1963 Communist Goals
The following was entered into the Congressional record by Albert Herlong, Jr. (a Floridian who served in Congress from 1949-69) in 1963.
# 13) Do away with loyalty oaths
http://archive.glennbeck.com/hots/printcommunistgoals.htm
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