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.”
Delores you have appearently never met an atheist or never had a brain.
muslim air farce
So help us God.
Screw the humanists!
I would not obey this order and say So Help Me God, is the 2nd admendment right of free speech.
This country is the one who needs to worry not having God involved in a military is just crazy
You can say it. But it’s not required
When God almighty created it all.
Jackie I have the right to not believe.
It’s optional to say so calm your $#%&!@*. You crazy Christians can still say it if you want. But don’t violate the rights of those of different religions. I’m going into the military next yeaR and I’m a laveyan Satanist but I won’t give any oath to God. Does that make me any less American than any of you sitting here complain. It’s about time the separation of church And state was enforced. I already think it’s stupid under god was added to the pledge in 1954 just because people were scared of war