{"id":18424,"date":"2020-04-10T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18424"},"modified":"2020-04-10T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:31:37","slug":"atheist-loses-attempt-to-remove-so-help-me-god-from-us-naturalization-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/atheist-loses-attempt-to-remove-so-help-me-god-from-us-naturalization-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist Loses Attempt to Remove \u2018So Help Me God\u2019 From US Naturalization Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heather Clark<\/a><\/span> –

BOSTON \u2014<\/strong> A French-born woman who lives in Massachusetts has lost her appeal effort to have the phrase \u201cso help me God\u201d removed from the United States naturalization oath, as the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that its inclusion is not unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

\u201c[W]e hold that, under the most\u00a0recent framework used to evaluate whether established practices\u00a0with religious content violate the Establishment Clause, the\u00a0phrase \u2018so help me God\u2019 in the naturalization oath as a means of\u00a0completing that oath does not violate the Constitution,\u201d wrote<\/a> Judge Juan Torruella, nominated to the bench by then-President Ronald Reagan, on behalf of the three-judge panel.<\/p>\n

The court also noted that the woman can opt out of using the phrase, while not denying the right of others to speak it if desired.<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]he government has not prevented Perrier-Bilbo from expressing her atheistic religious beliefs. Nor can Perrier-Bilbo claim that the regulation prescribing the oath prohibits her from having a public ceremony during which she does not have to say the phrase \u2018so help me God,’\u201d Torruella outlined.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather, the regulations enable her to alter the oath, and the government has given her alternatives to accommodate her beliefs\u00a0so that she is comfortable during her ceremony and is able to\u00a0naturalize.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPerrier-Bilbo\u2019s actual complaint seems to be that the\u00a0Government will not change the oath for everyone attending the\u00a0public ceremony so that no one utters the words to which\u00a0Perrier-Bilbo objects. Perrier-Bilbo certainly does not have a\u00a0protected liberty interest in that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Heather Clark – April 8, 2020 BOSTON \u2014 A French-born woman who lives in Massachusetts has lost her appeal effort to have the phrase \u201cso help me God\u201d removed from the United States naturalization oath, as the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that its inclusion is not unconstitutional. \u201c[W]e hold that, under … Continue reading Atheist Loses Attempt to Remove \u2018So Help Me God\u2019 From US Naturalization Oath<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[1175,6770,14867,1520,14866,14868,821],"class_list":["post-18424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-constitution","tag-establishment-clause","tag-judge-juan-torruella","tag-massachusetts","tag-naturalization-oath","tag-perrier-bilbo","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4Na","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18426,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18424\/revisions\/18426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}