WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)– While the
Obama administration carefully avoids any religious connection between
Islamic jihad and the Boston bombings,
the president of the Military
Religious Freedom Foundation bluntly told Pentagon officials that
Christian troops who proselytize are guilty of sedition and treason and
should be punished.
“Someone needs to be
punished for this,” said Mikey Weinstein. “Until the Air Force or Army
or Navy or Marine Corps punishes a member of the military for
unconstitutional religious proselytizing and oppression, we will never
have the ability to stop this horrible, horrendous, dehumanizing
behavior.”
Weinstein also said his Foundation has thousands of Protestant members who are only opposed to Christian fundamentalists.
“As
soon as we find a fundamentalist Muslim, atheist, Jewish person or
anybody else, we will be happy to fight them, but so far they have been
few and far between,” he said.
After Weinstein
went to the Pentagon to discuss the state of religion in the military,
Tony Perkins, president of the Washington-based Family Research Council,
wondered why U.S. officers were taking advice about religious freedom
from one of the most rabid atheists in America.
“That’s like consulting with China on how to improve human rights,” he said.
Lt.
Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, an FRC executive VP, told Fox News that he
sees a pattern of attacks on Christianity within the military.
“Mickey
Weinstein has a very visceral hated of Christianity and those who are
Christians,” he said. “He’d like to see it eliminated from the military
entirely.”
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin
However,
that seems unlikely since military chaplains are an exception to the so
called separation of church and state found in the Establishment Clause
of the First Amendment; the Department of Defense must support the free
exercise of religion by its service personnel and DoD employees because
the Constitution proscribes Congress from enacting any law prohibiting
the free exercise of religion, according to The American Center for Law
and Justice.
This is especially true when U.S.
service personnel must deploy to parts of the world where the facilities
to practice their respective faiths are not only unavailable, but
non-existent, such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which prohibits all
public worship save Islam.
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