Revised Pledge for AmeriCorps Draws Critics [New York Times: Politics]  The Republican Congress's addition of an optional "So help me God" to the Americorps oath should not come as a surprise.  It is sad, however, that the same Congress has ignored the substantive needs of the government's volunteer programs by killing the "Peace Corps Charter for the 21st Century" (S. 2667) while it obsesses over purely symbolic -- and divisive -- measures designed to flaunt the Members' religiosity.  What would Jesus say?

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