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The Air Force Academy may excise 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.
“To tie the honor code to a religious test violates the no-establishment clause of the Constitution,” said Mikey Weinstein, founder of the foundation and a frequent academy critic.
Now the academy says it’s mulling options, including dumping the entire honor oath. The frontrunner among the options is making the ecclesiastical reference optional.
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