Pat Robertson: "One little Jewish radical" is terrorizing the Air Force

The Air Force recently changed it's policy requiring recruits to include the phrase "so help me God" when joining the service.

Until the change, only the Air Force carried this requirement.  The Marines, Army and Navy all allowed for the phrase to be optional.

You know, since we have that First Amendment that includes freedom concerning religion and all that.

Well, don't you know Pat Robertson had to go bonkers over what he calls "one little Jewish radical" who didn't feel he needed to say "so help me God" to join the Air Force?

Text from the clip below:

There is a left-wing radical named Mikey Weinstein who has got a group about ‘people against religion’ or whatever he calls it, and he has just terrorized the Armed Forces. You think you’re supposed to be tough, you’re supposed to defend us, and you’ve got one little Jewish radical who is scaring the pants off of you.

You want these guys flying airplanes to defend us when you’ve got one little guy terrorizing them? That’s what it amounts to. You know, we swear oaths, ‘So help me God,’ what does it mean? It mean’s that with God’s help — You don’t have to say you believe in God, you just have to say you want some help beside myself with the oath I’m taking. It’s just crazy. What is wrong with the Air Force? How can they fly the bombers to defend us if they cave to one little guy?

When notified of Robertson's temper tantrum on the subject, Weinstein has this to say:

“Pat Robertson is to human dignity and sanity and integrity and character what dog shit is to a fine French restaurant on the menu.”

(source)

Bryan Fischer says atheists should be banned from military service

Hate group leader Bryan Fischer says that atheists should be banned from serving in any branch of the military.

Via Right Wing Watch:

Responding to a situation in which an airman was denied his request to re-enlist in the Air Force because he refuses to take an oath containing the phrase "so help me God," Fischer asserts that atheists should be prohibited from serving in all braches of the military because "there is no place in the United States military for those who do not believe in the Creator who is the source of every single one of our fundamental human and civil rights."

S.E. Cupp says conservatives more respectful of atheists than liberals

I personally respect everyone's right to be Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Atheist, Agnostic... wherever in the spectrum you fall.

But I'm not so sure the world of conservatives is "far more respectful of atheism" than liberals. I just don't buy that.

All those Republican folks down in the Bible Belt are kinder to the idea of atheists than liberals?

Nope.

Glenn Beck: Atheist "moment" with Wolf Blitzer was a "plant"

Glenn Beck has decided that a very awkward interview moment by CNN's Wolf Blitzer this week was the workings of a CNN producer "sympathetic to the atheist plight," Right Wing Watch reports.

The interview in question is from Tuesday, when Blitzer asked a woman who survived this week's massive tornado in Oklahoma, "Did you thank the Lord?" In the interview, the woman laughed and responded, "I'm actually an atheist," and the two shared a moment of awkward laughter.

To Beck, though, the question "just wasn't natural," and therefore must have been a plant by some producer who thought it was important "to point out that in the middle of the heartland, there are atheists there too."

The fact is, this is the first "atheist" moment on TV I've seen in forever. So it's not like CNN is pushing an atheist agenda.

Plus, I have to say, Wolf Blitzer is a serious professional. To think the moment was staged is to think very little of Blitzer and his very long, successful career.

(via Towleroad)