Thursday, May 2, 2013

Freedom of Religion, or From?

So I'm ticked off today after finding out about a situation occurring in our military. A Mikey Weinstein, President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation had a meeting with pentagon officials last week. Mikey said that U.S. troops who witness and try to convert people of other nation's are guilty of sedition and treason and should be punished to stop a "tidal wave of Fundamentalist". Mikey declared soldiers that share their faith with other people are violating the Constitution.

Weinstein pointed out a policy called "Air Force Culture, Air Force Standards," that has a regulation which states
 "Leaders at all levels must balance constitutional protections for an individual's free exercise of religion or other personal beliefs and the constitutional prohibition against governmental establishment of religion,".
Weinstien says this regulation needs to be enforced and that any soldiers caught violating it by sharing his faith should be prosecuted. He said 
"We would love to see hundreds of prosecutions to stop this outrage of fundamentalist religious persecution." And later compared proselytizing to rape,saying "It is a version of being spiritually raped and you are being spiritually raped by fundamentalist Christian religious predators," The Pentagon then said in an interview that proselytizing is not allowed in the military.


I have a ton of questions now. Why is our Pentagon talking to a wackjob Atheist organization? What happened to our freedom of speech? I understand not wanting to force people into converting but simply sharing the Gospel or handing out tracks can't be seen as "government establishment of religion". A couple of weeks ago army men had to file of Bible references  that had been put on to the gun. Why? How could that possibly be government authorizing it?

Our military is in place to protect Our Rights in the Constitution. That is their primary mission. So what happens when the people they are working for start violating THEIR Constitutional rights? It's becoming more and more clear that our government is becoming anti-Christian, not just neutral. Christians make up a lot of our military, they have chaplains  church services, Bible meetings. And yet simply giving a testimony to foreigners is illegal? I'm not just arguing for Christians here though, I think any religion that wishes to share his or her face has a right to do so. I understand that they are active-duty, but they haven an opportunity to help. And censoring what they can say is wrong. Our country is becoming a disgrace.

So what should we do? We must pray and continue to be active in changing our government to allow us our Constitutional Rights. We must not be ignorant to the attacks on our Liberty the government has been making. I leave you with this question, assuming you're religious,would you still witness anyway?


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