For the first time ever, a fighter jet-sized drone piloted entirely by computer landed on a modern Read more
Increasingly, each one of us in our different organizations and capacities have been getting confidential calls and other reports and information from members of the military pointing to this growing hostility toward religious freedom. Unfortunately, members of the military cannot speak out about these things.
This is just a sampling of the cases that have been made public.
– Tony Perkins, Family Research Council
Representatives from 14 groups joined three US Congressmen to release a report on “The Threat to Religious Liberty in the Military” (PDF) and press for passage of legislation allowing US military servicemembers to act and speak on their faith: Read more
“You know the old saying that there’s no atheists in the foxhole? Well God help us if all we have in foxholes are atheists.”
The July 13 edition of World Magazine asks if the US military is a “no pray zone?”, with the magazine cover saying “How the US military is fighting religious liberty.” Contributor Edward Lee Pitts pens the cover story “Holding the Line,” with the tag line
Chaplains are pursuing their mission in a military suddenly hostile to Christianity and ready to suppress religious freedom
In an era in which the military is being repeatedly called “hostile” to religious freedom — including by members of Congress — this characterization may not be as over the top as it seems. After listing just a portion of the recent “incidents” of Read more
An official Navy release notes the travels of US Navy Chaplain (Cmdr) Daniel Mode, who is assigned to the carrier USS George Washington but visits other ships via the Navy’s “holy helo.”
Destroyers often do not have chaplains permanently stationed on board and rely on command lay leaders to perform worship services. Lay leaders are volunteers appointed by the commanding officer who Read more
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
– President John Adams, 11 October 1798
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A group of chaplains speak on their experiences and what the chaplaincy means to them:
Via Jews in Green.
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The courthouse in which US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan is to be tried for the Fort Hood massacre looks more like a bunker in Afghanistan than an office building in Texas. As noted by the Associated Press — which includes a rare photo of the combat zone-like revetments:
The military courthouse…has been transformed into a fortress, surrounded by hundreds of stacked freight car-sized shipping containers, and by tall dirt- and sand-filled barriers designed to protect it against the impact of a bomb blast. Armed soldiers stand guard around the building.
The substantial security measures may belie the attributed position that the government characterizes Hasan’s attack as “workplace violence,” not terrorism.
The article also notes the paralyzed Hasan is transported from the local jail to the courthouse by helicopter, at random times, “for his protection.”
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US Army SFC Dennis Dutton recently came to the MRFF for…help?…after this happened during his graduation from Abrahms Tank Maintainer school at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 2012:
In case you missed it: He’s the one on the stage who didn’t bow his head.
Apparently, it is a point of pride that Read more
