These plaintive pleas for help have included forced attendance at military Holiday Balls with clear, Christian sectarian religious themes, the coerced swearing of religious oaths, mandatory "spiritual fitness" testing and a veritable plethora of other "spiritual rape" grievances large and small across the entirety of the United States armed forces home and abroad.
Under the measure, journalists and employees of nongovernmental, political and religious organizations must submit sworn declarations by Jan . 31about whether they ever collaborated with the state security services.
When Chloe Smith, Conservative MP for Norwich North, took her seat in Parliament in 2009, she opted to affirm rather than swear a religious oath of allegiance to the Queen.
They spurn the "religious pluralism" they're sworn to uphold per their sacrosanct oaths to the Constitution.
Devised by religious leaders, it banned violence, swearing and childbirth (even in silhouette).
However, the apparently religious family did not all swear on the bible in the witness box.
They should not be serving as judges, where they will be called upon to judge those who do not hold their religious beliefs, unless they can swear to give a totally fair and impartial judgment, outside the confines of faith.
Any author who signs a contract with the Christian book publisher Thomas Nelson Publishers must also swear to two religious articles of faith, regardless of the subject of the book.
With a few well-established exceptions, like conscientious-objector status and the option of swearing or affirming oaths, religious people followed the same rules as everyone else.
He's a controversial figure, who insists that peace cannot be achieved without a religious input - and that even sworn enemies will have to get around the negotiating table.
