Air Force Sergeant banned from re-enlisting due to Atheism

[fabrisse]

The US air force has told an atheist airman he must swear his re-enlistment oath to God or he will not be allowed to reenlist, according to the American Humanist

Comments

[maynardsong]

Thing is, that father who challenged the "under God" of the pledge did not otherwise give half a shit about his daughter, so. Yeah, this sucks but I'm gonna be irritated as fuck if someone tries to claim that atheists are "persecuted" the way women and POC and LGBTQ folks are.

[that_which]

Yeah, kind of sucks when someone's aggressive sense of ill-usage spills over into the commentary on someone else's problem, don't it?

[crossfire]

<3

[wuvvumsoc]

Is there any place I can read about this? I can't find other articles about him or his name in this article.

[planet_x_zero]

This has been going on for years. The U.S. Air Force is just a bunch of jesus loving rapists.

[tabaqui]

Nice to see comments at the source are basically calling this a bunch of shite. It's depressing how far the right wing xians have sunk their hooks into our military.

[that_which]

If the air force cannot change the rules without congressional action, how did they update their directive on the oath in October 2013?

[fabrisse]

If the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps don't require it, then why does the Air Force? In any court in this country, the option to affirm without invoking God is supposed to be protected, too.

[that_which]

I agree with you, but leaving aside the part where the Air Force isn't clear about which constitutional protections their people signed away, according to their own interpretation of the rules they weren't allowed to change the rules to begin with.

[wren123]

Watch a documentary called Constantine's Sword. It has a lot of information about Evangelical Christians taking over the Air Force.

[moonshaz]

Thanks for this! I hadn't heard of this movie, but my library has it, and I will be watching it first chance I get.