After the group American Humanist Association threatened to sue the Air Force on behalf of an atheist Airman, the Air Force immediately removed the requirement to say ‘So Help Me God’ from their enlistment oath.
The Airman was denied re-enlistment after crossing the phrase off the oath on Aug. 25th, prompting the suit.
“We take any instance in which Airmen report concerns regarding religious freedom seriously,” said Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, Air Force Times reported Wednesday. The change in policy goes into effect immediately.
“We are pleased that the U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed our client has a First Amendment right to omit the reference to a supreme being in his reenlistment oath,” Monica Miller, an attorney with the AHA’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center, said in a statement Wednesday, Air Force Times reported. “We hope the Air Force will respect the constitutional rights of Atheists in the future.”
The Army, Navy and Marine Corps all give enlistees the option to say “so help me God.”
Yes screw the constitution and its freedom of religion.
If he didn’t like it….why did he join the Air Force???
come on air force, get some balls against 1 idiot
They don’t belong in the Military, so help me God!
No other branch of the military forces this… Why don’t you realize that not everyone believes in your pitiful excuse of a god??
They will believe in God and tremble one day soon!
Pretty soon there will no prayers, No flag and No USA at the rate we are going all for a handful of people who all of a sudden don’t like us.
How dare.they America is getting weaker and turning their back on God God says when a nation he has blessed turns their backs on him Sudden Destruction shall fall upon them . It seems as though we a christian nation is letting the atheist heathern bring our country to a visious end . We are. Becoming a cowerdly nation .God have mercy on us
This is SUCH a travesty.
screw him the oath is the oath domnt like it don’t join