The Rant

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 ...

Bob: I think Sharlet's book "C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy" should be on every liberal's must read list. I think his discussion of the penetration of the military officer corps is especially timely considering today's discussion of the repeal of don't ask, don't tell.