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 --News Updates/AWM/ Continued/ Winter 2013--AIR FORCE ACADEMY
ASKED TO DROP "SO HELP
ME GOD" FROM HONOR OATH~~ ---- A complaint filed by Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) against the honor oath taken by cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado prompted the academy's honor review committee to evaluate the oath. The oath, which is required of all cadets asks them to declare: "We will not lie, steal or cheat nor tolerate among us anyone who does. Furthermore, I resolve to do my duty and live honorably, so help me God." After due deliberation, the committee announced the words "so help me God" will me made optional for those who object to them. Ron Crews, executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty told Fox News 'removing the mention of God in the oath "expresses hostility toward religion. Further, it removes the solemnity and gravity of the oath, particularly for the many cadets who come from a faith tradition.'"--Information from: Fox News ~~ ---------- --DEAN OF WASHINGTON NATIONAL
CATHEDRAL "IT'S A SIN TO OPPOSE
HOMOSEXUALITY" ~~
[Gary Hall]At a worship service to honor youthful homosexuals, held in the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, Dean Gary Hall lashed out at those who oppose homosexuality, calling it a sin. "We must now have the courage to take the final step and call homophobia and heterosexism what they are. They are sin. Heterosexism is a sin. Shaming people for who they love is a sin," Hall asserted. "Only when all our churches say that clearly and boldly and courageously will our 'LGBT' youth be free to grow up in a culture that totally embraces them fully as they are." He further claimed that churches that opposes homosexuality produce a culture that is harmful to children. ~~ --Information from: The Layman, 10/24/13 --------------- --  "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap." [Galatians 6:7]--New American Standard Bible (NASB) ------- -The Vine and Branches/AWM
-Pastor David Barnhart~~ ----------
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]
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