Military Religious Freedom Foundation

Expanding upon my last post this is from a link on Mikey Weinstein's Military Religious Freedom Foundation's website. As it is Hanukkah, I thought independence of conscience is a core American value. Thus those who would impose a religious test on being a good American needs to be seen for what it is.....bigotry.

Our military should be 100% secular. Religion has no place defining who should or should not be in the armed services of this country.

This article suggests that the Chaplin corps are counseling injured or traumatized soldiers to accept Jesus as a solution to their problems.

"Weinstein said soldiers are being told that finding Jesus is the only way to overcome the trauma.

The Pentagon press office did not return calls or emails for comment.

“What we’re seeing is a national disgrace that is actually increasing suicides rather than reducing them,” charged Weinstein in an interview with Antiwar.com.

While that would be hard to prove, Weinstein has plenty of reason for believing it. In five years of investigations, complaints and lawsuits – amassing a client base of more than 18,000 active duty service members – the former Air Force Judge Advocate General (JAG) has uncovered a Christian subculture within the military that not only instructs and favors evangelism, it insists upon it, from the service academies on up – obliterating not only the constitutional restriction on state-sponsored religion, but fueling the dangerous perception that America is on a religious crusade against the Muslim world.

“We’re standing by as a tsunami sweeps over us,” he said of the growing military evangelism, or as some call it, Christian supremacy. Weinstein says MRFF has become a shelter for individuals who can find no other remedy or respite from the pressure to conform on campus or on base. His days and nights are spent talking to service members, retaining lawyers, strategizing and filing formal complaints. He insists he is not “anti-religion,” but a tireless defender of the U.S. Constitution.

“Wherever I see unconstitutional religious predators in the U.S. military, of any stripe, I don’t care if I live or die. Someone’s gonna get a beating and we’re going to do it,” he told writer Matthew Harwood of Truth-out.org in July. “The two ways to administer the beating is to go into the media or into court.”

His latest action: protesting the September “Rock the Fort” concert series sponsored by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, of which son Franklin Graham is the CEO (yes, the one who called Muslims wicked and evil). MRFF was successful several months before in pressuring the Army to disinvite Graham to speak at its “National Day of Prayer.”

“We’re not supposed to be using the U.S. Army to develop and engender, you know, new soldiers for Christ,” Weinstein told CNN at the time. The concert, scheduled for Fort Bragg, North Carolina, had also been to Fort Jackson (slick promotional video here), and was endorsed and promoted by Army chaplains. The soldiers at Fort Bragg were actually given slips of paper ahead of the concert on which to place names of seven other soldiers who might attend “so they will come to Christ,” added Weinstein.