SocraticGadfly: Military chaplains don’t get First Amendment

March 07, 2009

Military chaplains don’t get First Amendment

Multiple military chaplains, in response to complaints that groups such as Campus Crusade for Christ are, in essence, infiltrating the military, say things such as, “We represent our own faith while respecting other faith groups .” per Carleton Birch of the Army’s Chief of Chaplains Office.

Uhh, atheists and agnostics aren’t a “faith group,” Mr. Birch. Try reading your First Amendment again. You obviously need to:
Mikey Weinstein, the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and a retired Air Force officer who has become an outspoken advocate on the issue, said his group now received more than 500 complaints of religious bias a month from members of the military.

It’s approaching the discrimination level against gays in the military.

Having people told to pray to any God, whether the Christian version (whatever strain thereof) or some other one, violates that First Amendment.

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