“So Help Me God”: Weinstein Gets USAFA Poster Pulled in 68 Minutes
Michael “Mikey” Weinstein, outspoken critic of Christians in the US military, once bragged he’d called the Pentagon and had a poster pulled off the wall of an Air Force base chow hall in less than an...
View ArticleUpdate: USAFA Reacts to So Help Me God
…Who is in charge of the nation’s military[?] “Is it in fact the military chiefs or is it Mikey Weinstein?” – Tony Perkins, Family Research Council President A few news sources have picked up on the...
View ArticleWeinstein Retreats, Says USAFA Cadet Oath can be Optional
In a surprising turn, Michael “Mikey” Weinstein has apparently reversed himself — saying the US Air Force Academy cadet Honor Oath is acceptable. On Wednesday night Weinstein was a 5-minute guest on...
View ArticleUSAFA Says “So Help Me God” is Optional
In an anticlimatic but optimistically predicted result, LtGen Michelle Johnson declared that the “so help me God” portion of the USAFA Cadet Honor Oath is optional: “Here at the Academy, we work to...
View ArticleTime Blog Misquotes ChristianFighterPilot.com
Mark Thompson at Time Magazine’s “Swampland” blog has made an occasional habit of bagging on the Air Force or US military. Yesterday, he recapped the USAFA “so help me God” Cadet Honor Oath issue in a...
View ArticleCongressmen Introduce Military Oath Bill, Chide Weinstein
After USAFA appeared to capitulate to Michael “Mikey” Weinstein’s complaints that “so help me God” violated the US Constitution, two Congressmen have proposed legislation that would require...
View ArticleChris Rodda Pens 3,000-Word Diatribe. TLDR.
Chris Rodda, Michael “Mikey” Weinstein’s paid research assistant, writes an occasional article for Weinstein’s MRFF. Rodda considers herself a history buff, and her writings reflect that. She is also...
View ArticleWeinstein Buys Billboard, USAFA Cites MRFF
Michael “Mikey” Weinstein didn’t like what USAFA did. So he bought a billboard. Again. Via the AFTimes. As noted at the Air Force Times, Weinstein is upset that “so help me God” remains in the Cadet...
View ArticleWeinstein’s Imbalanced View of So Help Me God
Michael “Mikey” Weinstein penned half of a pro/con debate for the local Colorado Springs Gazette regarding the presence of “so help me God” in the USAFA Cadet Honor Oath. Weinstein boils his argument...
View ArticleUS Air Force Academy Will Restore “So Help Me God”
Removing the poster and editing the oath for all Academy students is extreme and unnecessary, and does a disservice to the countless individuals who wish to include the phrase as a solemn reminder that...
View ArticleAnother Billboard Goes up at USAFA
The Restore Military Religious Freedom coalition took a page from Mikey Weinstein’s playbook and posted a billboard near the US Air Force Academy: On a background of Mount Rushmore, the text reads: Air...
View ArticleAir Force Oath: “So Help Me God” Optional Again
Update: The Air Force declined to release the legal opinion behind the decision to alter the AFI last year requiring “so help me God” to remain in the oath. The reason: attorney-client privilege....
View ArticleReport: Hostility to Religion in US Military
The Liberty Institute recently published a 2014 edition of a 400-page report entitled “Undeniable: The Survey of Hostility to Religion in America” (PDF). Sections I, II, and III are “attacks” in the...
View ArticleCritics Falsify Congressman’s “So Help Me God” Bill
Several critics — primarily on the liberal-leaning, anti-religious freedom side — have laid into US Congressman Sam Johnson (R-Tx) for his “Preserve and Protect God in Military Oaths Act of 2015″ — and...
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