Can US Military Endorse Christian Event?

The biased reporting from Fox News' Bill O'Reilly on the decision of the US Air Force to deny a request for an aircraft flyby at a Christian festival in Idaho obfuscated a real issue of First Amendment law under the US Constitution as I show in this video.

The 3 fair use clips from Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" come from the July 9, 2009, broadcast some of which is available online at http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streami...

The webpage showing the mission statement of the Treasure Valley God and Country Festival in Nampa, Idaho, that I briefly show in my video is online at http://godandcountryfestival.com/the-mission-of-the-god-and-country-festival....

The full text of the US Supreme Court case, Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947), to which I referred in my video is available online at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=330&inv...

The image of the $100 bill I used in this video came from my own scan.

The image of the Ten Commandments monument is from TheZachMorrisExperience and is used under the creative commons license described at a link on the photo at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TenCommandmentsAlleghenyCountyCourthou...

In compliance with that creative commons license, this video may be distributed by anyone who complies with the creative commons license described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D

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[TheRandomguy112]

no plane for jesus....lulz

[encona101]

Fox news is jokes

[Coramelimane]

He also mislead them into thinking Obama personally forbade the airforce from letting the planes fly.

[Crucible52]

My question: if the US Air Force was simply doing a flyby for a Christian event... what is wrong with that? I see nothing wrong with that at all. A fly by of several jets =\= "We endorse Christianity 100% as the only true religion!!" Its called tradition. ...PS I hate Bill O'Reilly

[qwsecrfvevrfvfr111]

@encona101 its more than a joke its the sweet that drips off of satins ball sack

[DepressedAnnnie]

I don't like Christianity. There is plenty of times I have made that point. However, it is their right to have a country music festival. What is not their right is having government owned planes with on-duty soldiers fly over their religious festival just so they can have something to wave flags at. I personally don't think this has anything to do with the first amendment. If I were the president , I would not allow this either simply because it is a waste of tax-dollars. However, specifically

[aaron9099]

@DarthCadeous501 You owned that hive mind son.

[MendingMedia]

Bill O'Reilly is no Christian.

[addcb]

"They didn't have an answer for a festival of God and Country in Idaho, that's just stupid"

Maybe because you, Bill O'Reilly, were shouting Warren down the whole time when we tried to speak the truth about the festival.

[BorgKing001]

@DarthCadeous501 lol

[DarthCadeous501]

@BorgKing001

I can't take that seriously since you are named after a collective hive mind in Star Trek bent on assimilating everybody.

[NightHawk92929]

@BorgKing001 Over 90% of the scientific community believes global warming is fact. I believe that global warming is fact, and there are mountains of evidence supporting it, such as earth's natural greenhouse effect. (Something you should have learned in high school science)

If you're implying that the united states, which stupidly rejected the kyoto protocol, is now trying to shove something it is doing little about down your throats, then i cannot begin to describe your ignorance.