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Huckabee, Potential 2016 Presidential Candidate, on Military Religious Freedom
During a lengthy interview with the Baptist Press, former (and potentially future) Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee talked about religious freedom — and the military:
The American people must be willing to stand up for religious liberty, Huckabee said.
“The government’s job is not to say you can’t have a nativity scene, you can’t sing a Christmas carol, you can’t wear colors of red and green at Christmastime,” he said. “It’s the exact opposite. The government is prohibited from getting involved at all, making any decisions. It’s the role of citizens to express themselves if their expression infringed upon someone else.”
Those appear to be references to recent issues in the US military and the Veteran’s Administration. Huckabee later specifically mentioned the military:
The military is another battleground for religious freedom, Read more
Top 10 Military Religious Freedom Stories for 2013
As has been the trend for the past few years, issues of religion and the military seem to have largely fallen from the visibility they once had. This year, as religious liberty sites have compiled their “top tens” for the year, the focus has largely been on DOMA and the challenges to the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. The left-leaning Baptist Joint Committee included only one military story, saying the “Pentagon debunks rumors of a policy change on religious expression” in reference to the springtime controversy over Michael “Mikey” Weinstein “consulting” with the Air Force (#9 on the list below).
The Top 10 most-read stories on ChristianFighterPilot.com for 2013: Read more
Fort Hood Shooter Asked for Bible, Bible Expert in Jail
In an interesting tidbit from the Bell County Jail where then-US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was held during his trial for the 2009 Fort Hood massacre, a report of his jail requests indicates he asked for a Bible and a “knowledgeable person” while he was on trial:
Hasan also asked the jail for a copy of the Bible and added, “Please send a knowledgeable person to answer my difficult questions as Read more
Chris Rodda, the Government Funded Piano, and the Torah
A few days ago, Michael “Mikey” Weinstein’s MRFF research assistant, Chris Rodda, mocked the purchase of an $88,000 Steinway piano for a Fort Riley chapel in a little-noticed piece at the Huffington Post:
Apparently, military cutbacks don’t apply to church music…
I can’t say that I was surprised to hear about this example of outrageously extravagant spending on a military chapel…
She implied, somewhat obtusely, that the Army wouldn’t need such a piano if there was really religious hostility toward Christians in the US military, as some have asserted. Notwithstanding her presumption that only Christians would use a musical instrument, it is worth a reminder that she represents an organization that claims to be defending “religious freedom” in the US military. She later said
While the military is cutting back on necessary services it is sparing no expense on chapels and religious programs.
As a supposed advocate for religious liberty, she considers this a bad thing?
In point of fact, Rodda, Weinstein, and Read more
No Atheists on Everest? Man vs Wild Waterproof Military Bible
In a fascinating article from earlier this year, Bear Grylls — of “Man vs Wild” fame — has endorsed a waterproof Bible that will be issued to new military recruits:
The New Zealand Defence Force is issuing new recruits with waterproof Bibles, endorsed by TV adventurer Bear Grylls, in a worldwide military first.
The act of presenting military personnel with Bibles Read more
David Barton, Kenneth Copeland on PTSD and the Bible
Last Monday was Veteran’s Day. Pentacostal preacher Kenneth Copeland hosted David Barton, a self-described “expert in historical and constitutional issues,” and they lit the fires of controversy by addressing the issue of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the Bible. Citing the King James Version of Numbers 32:20-22, Copeland says
…”If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war, and will go all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him, and the land be subdued before the Lord: then afterward ye shall return…and be guiltless before the Lord, and before the nation.”
Any of you suffering from PTSD right now, you listen to me. You get rid of that right now.
You don’t take drugs to get rid of it, it doesn’t take psychology; that promise right there will get rid of it.
Copeland continues, explaining, in essence, that PTSD is Read more
Weinstein’s Imbalanced View of So Help Me God
Michael “Mikey” Weinstein penned half of a pro/con debate for the local Colorado Springs Gazette regarding the presence of “so help me God” in the USAFA Cadet Honor Oath. Weinstein boils his argument down to this:
Removing those words from the published oath does nothing to change [cadets’ First Amendment] right [sic].
In balance, however, if the removal of those words affects not the First Amendment rights of believers, why would the presence of those words affect the rights of others? Weinstein fails to justify his call for a change.
In one respect, Weinstein’s premise seems to be correct: No religious Read more