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Dems to strike 'so help me God' from oath taken in front of key House committee, draft shows
fox news ^ | 1/29/19 | greg re

Posted on 01/29/2019 9:42:29 AM PST by revivaljoe

A key committee in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is moving to eliminate the words "so help you God" from the oath administered to witnesses testifying before the panel, as part of a new rules package expected to be approved this week, according to a draft obtained exclusively by Fox News.

The draft shows that the House Committee on Natural Resources would ask witnesses to recite only: "Do you solemnly swear or affirm, under penalty of law, that the testimony that you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"

The rules proposal places the words "So help you God" in red brackets, indicating they are slated to be cut. Other rules changes relate to expanding the committee's authority over natural gas in Alaska and fossil-fuel resources.

While many federal oaths include the phrase "So help me God," some -- most notably the presidential oath of office -- do not.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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To: revivaljoe

Only the righteous will invoke God’s help.


21 posted on 01/29/2019 9:56:14 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: revivaljoe

bttt


22 posted on 01/29/2019 9:56:25 AM PST by timestax (https://www.flickr.com/)
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To: revivaljoe

So as not to offend their true buddies, the muzzies.


23 posted on 01/29/2019 9:57:59 AM PST by I want the USA back (In any war between the civilized world and the savage support the civilized man. -Geller.)
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To: revivaljoe

When people have religious values, there is a public sense that there’s SOME authority higher than the government, that standards aren’t quite totally malleable.

Christianity is tightly married to the democratic impulse, and contributes to outrage and action when Gummint goes awry.

Da Gummint wants to rule over us w/o outside accountabiity.

The occupying tribe wants to live behind high walls with their dim-witted, areligious poltroons till fields and man factor assembly stations, asking no questions.


24 posted on 01/29/2019 9:59:18 AM PST by gaijin
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To: I want the USA back

It’s a good thing there’s muzzies,
or it’d all be atheist’s fault again.


25 posted on 01/29/2019 10:01:07 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: revivaljoe

“So help me Mueller”


26 posted on 01/29/2019 10:05:54 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: revivaljoe

Back to the USSR


27 posted on 01/29/2019 10:07:05 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: revivaljoe

Will the substitute Allah or Satan?


28 posted on 01/29/2019 10:15:27 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: revivaljoe

IT HAS COME DOWN TO GOD VS SATAN


29 posted on 01/29/2019 10:25:43 AM PST by revivaljoe
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To: revivaljoe

Why take an oath at all? It’s not like they plan to honor it.


30 posted on 01/29/2019 10:28:27 AM PST by JZelle
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
As i they take oaths seriously in the first place.

31 posted on 01/29/2019 10:49:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: revivaljoe

I guess they don’t want to use God’s name when lying.


32 posted on 01/29/2019 10:51:29 AM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: revivaljoe

“They did not like to retain God in their knowledge...” Roman 1:28


33 posted on 01/29/2019 10:52:56 AM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: revivaljoe
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

" Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society." George Washington

"[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." Benjamin Franklin

"The moral principles and precepts contained in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. . . All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." Noah Webster

"Whereas true religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness . . . it is hereby earnestly recommended to the several States to take the most effectual measures for the encouragement thereof." Continental Congress 1778

"Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine. . . . Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other." James Wilson (signer of the Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court Justice)

I know that morality changes over time, but I still think a "morality test" for those in public office has more upside than downside. JMHO.

34 posted on 01/29/2019 11:27:19 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: revivaljoe

After that settles in, they can add satan later...


35 posted on 01/29/2019 11:43:14 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: sparklite2

Just what I was thinking.

They don’t care, but we do, and they will stick it to us any time they can.


36 posted on 01/29/2019 11:46:37 AM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: revivaljoe

There is no such thing as an Agnostic on a crashing Airplane.


37 posted on 01/29/2019 11:49:40 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: smvoice

“’DEAL WITH IT’ will be the only thing they’ll hear for an ETERNITY.”

And He will add: “... I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matthew 7:23 KJV


38 posted on 01/29/2019 12:14:33 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: Kickass Conservative

“There is no such thing as an Agnostic on a crashing Airplane.”

Once Dennis Miller said that he had been on a plane with a lot of born-again Christians going to a convention. The plane had problems and was descending fast. Passengers expected they would die. Miller said, “... and they didn’t CARE!”


39 posted on 01/29/2019 12:17:36 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: rdl6989

God doesn’t listen to Congress anymore.


40 posted on 01/29/2019 12:56:02 PM PST by abbastanza
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