Democrats Remove "So Help Me God" from House Committee Oaths

Calvin Freiburger : Jun 5, 2019
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"The intention behind ['so help me God'] was to express the idea that the truth of what was being said was important not just in the moment, but would go into eternity, and Someone was watching and would ultimately be our judge. Some would call that mere symbolism, but to many of our founders, it was deeper than that." -Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA)

(Washington, DC) — [Lifesitenews.com] Democrats controlling the US House of Representatives have removed "so help me God" from the oath witnesses take before testifying before several of the committees they control, months after backing down from a proposal from one committee to strike the phrase. (Image source: C-Span3 /video screengrab/via LifeSiteNews)

"I think God belongs in religious institutions: in temple, in church, in cathedral, in mosque—but not in Congress," Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TX), chair of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, explained, the New York Times reported last month. He claimed that Republicans' support for the longstanding language constituted "using God," and "God doesn't want to be used."

"We do not have religious tests," declared Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), chair of the Judiciary Committee.

Striking the religious language is the most controversial of the procedural changes ushered in by Democrats after winning the House majority last November. Lesser changes include replacing "chairman" and "chairwoman" with the gender-neutral title of "chair," and the Natural Resources Committee replacing plastic water bottles with reusable glassware... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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