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Opinion: How Republicans Distort Founders’ Meaning, Mission of Freedom

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Fri, Aug 6th, 2021

The founders conceptualized freedom as a social mission, a social obligation, the chief goal of which was to serve the public good, not one’s narrow private interests.

Airman Ordered to Swear a Religious Oath or Get Out of the Air Force

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Mon, Sep 8th, 2014

The United States Air Force, itself sworn to “support and defend the Constitution,” cannot abide by, support, or defend either the First Amendment or Article VI and rejected an atheist airman’s attempt to reenlist to serve and defend his country unless he swears a religious oath.