{"id":25876,"date":"2013-07-12T19:52:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T23:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=25876"},"modified":"2013-07-12T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T00:14:57","slug":"keeping-faith-with-our-troops-growing-religious-bigotry-in-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2013\/07\/keeping-faith-with-our-troops-growing-religious-bigotry-in-the-military.html","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Faith With Our Troops – growing religious bigotry in the military"},"content":{"rendered":"

Item #1 of 4<\/p>\n

The attack on faith: “Evangelical Christianity” and “Catholicism” examples of “religious extremism.”<\/h1>\n

From: American Values<\/strong>
\nFriday, July 12, 2013
\nFrom: Gary L. Bauer
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\nEMAIL GARY BAUER<\/a>
\nVISIT AMERICAN VALUES<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Since the Revolutionary War, some 25,000 chaplains have served in the U.S. Army. Four hundred have been killed in combat, including one this year in Afghanistan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This week a broad coalition of organizations, including American Values,<\/i> came together to sound the alarm against growing religious bigotry in the military. Our action was prompted after a series of disturbing events that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, last year the Obama Administration attempted to censor<\/a> Catholic priests in the military. In April news broke that an Army Reserve unit in Pennsylvania had received a briefing that labeled “Evangelical Christianity” and “Catholicism” examples of “religious extremism.” In May a painting featuring a Bible verse at an Idaho Air Force base was taken down after it was deemed “repugnant” by the left-wing Military Religious Freedom Foundation (See picture below – Item #3 of 3 – and note that only the scripture reference was shown with the word “Integrity” on the picture – hardly featuring an entire Bible verse!)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Much of the attack on faith is coming from Mikey Weinstein and his so-called Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Weinstein’s efforts have nothing to do with religious freedom. Instead, Weinstein is waging a battle to purge faith from military.<\/p>\n

The day after the Boston Marathon bombings, Weinstein published a column about “bloody monsters,” “monsters of human degradation, marginalization, humiliation and tyranny.” He warned about “their rapacious reign of theocratic terror.”<\/p>\n

Weinstein wasn’t writing about Islamic jihadists. He was referring to “fundamentalist Christian monsters” inside the U.S. military. He even told the Washington Post<\/i> recently that he wants officers court-martialed for sharing their faith.<\/p>\n

That is why a number of groups dedicated to religious liberty have stepped forward to defend the religious freedom our soldiers. A website has been created at militaryfreedom.org.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anti-Christian Atheist Michael \u2018Mikey\u2019 Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation writes that fundamentalist Christians are “bloody monsters of human degradation, marginalization, humiliation, and tyranny”.\u00a0 He is waging a war to “purge faith from the military”.\u00a0 He wants officers court- martialed for sharing their faith that he labels a “rapacious reign of theocratic terror”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you are serving in the military and may be concerned about a possible violation of your religious rights, please visit this site. If you have friends or family members serving in uniform, share this with them. There are helpful resources available, including a link to an allied organization providing legal assistance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Military Religious Freedom Resources<\/h3>\n