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[Half-Century Man]

From Alternet: Valerie Tarico:

The mission of MRFF is “to ensuring that all members of the United States Armed Forces fully receive the Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom to which they and all Americans are entitled by virtue of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.” Some people don’t like that.

They don’t like it because ensuring religious freedom in the military means among other things that:

§ No religion or religious philosophy may be advanced by the United States Armed Forces over any other religion or religious philosophy.

§ No member of the United States Armed Forces may be compelled in any way to conform to a particular religion or religious philosophy.

§ No member of the military may be compelled to endure unwanted religious proselytization, evangelization or persuasion of any sort in a military setting and/or by a military superior or civilian employee of the military.

§ The full exercise of religious freedom includes the right not to subscribe to any particular religion or religious philosophy. The so-called “unchurched” cede no Constitutional rights by want of their separation from organized faith.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/shocking-christian-hate-mail-activists-received-challenging-religious-indoctrination-military


Interesting read. I grew up as an Air Force dependent, yet served my enlistment in the US Navy. I was a little shocked by the lack of general religious talk in the Navy as compared to the Air Force. At the time, I attributed it to the difference between the topics of children and topics discussed by young enlisted men. Perhaps not.