Air Force Academy cadets are no longer required to end Honor Oath with "so help me God." The Right Wing to freak out about this in 3..2..1

Courtesy of ABC News 15:  

Air Force Academy cadets are no longer required to say "so help me God" at the end of the Honor Oath, school officials said Friday. 

The words were made optional after a complaint from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an advocacy group, that they violated the constitutional concept of religious freedom. 

Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson said the change was made to respect cadets' freedom of religion. 

The oath states, "We will not lie, steal or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does. Furthermore, I resolve to do my duty and to live honorably, so help me God." 

Cadets are required to take the oath once a year, academy spokesman Maj. Brus Vidal said. 

It is not taken out completely, it is still there for those who want it. And as Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundations, points out in the article there still might be times when it may be included even if the cadet does not want it.

However this is yet another positive step forward in respecting the belief systems, or lack of belief systems, of individuals in these academies and that is a good thing for everybody.

Unless of course your religion relies on indoctrination, or bullying people into giving thanks to your God whether they believe in him or not that is. But seriously, whose religion would be THAT insidious?

Rick Santorum's son runs for Class President. Clearly a chip off the old blockhead.

Courtesy of Buzzfeed: 

John Santorum, son of the the former Pennsylvania senator and presidential candidate, has launched his own campaign for president of his class at the Citadel, the Charleston, South Carolina, military academy. 

I hate to point this out but what John Santorum's father started was a losing campaign for President.

And just to show how out of equally out of step THIS Santorum is withe the times, he also had THIS prominently displayed on his Facebook page:

Apparently this kid does not read the news.

Though to be fair I imagine a gun fetish is probably far more acceptable in a military academy than it is in other places,

However it does kind of make me wonder how a kid who has never had the opportunity to vote one way or the other on gun issues, gets an A+ rating from the NRA. What did he have to do for that?

I assume this probably means that in the next fifteen years or so there might be yet ANOTHER Santorum for the political pundits and bloggers to mock and ridicule. Good to know that this family has such a steep learning curve.

Must be all of that effective homeschooling.