Oath of Admission.

• Date: 01 January 2021

While I am sure over the years there have been changes to The Florida Bar oath, the one thing that has always been a part of it is the signoff of "So help me God."

It's time we change that.

If lawyer demographics mirror the country, then 25% of us are agnostics or, like me, atheists.

Is this oath, which is regularly reprinted in the Bar Journal, even constitutional?

Article VI of the U.S. Constitution states in part that, as judicial officers, we "...shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to...