April 29, 2013
“Today, we face incredibly well-funded gangs of
fundamentalist Christian monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans by
forcing their weaponized and twisted version of Christianity upon their
helpless subordinates in our nation’s armed forces.”
Those words were recently written by Mikey Weinstein,
founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), in a column he
wrote for the Huffington Post. Weinstein will be a consultant to the Pentagon
to develop new policies on religious tolerance, including a policy for
court-martialing military chaplains who share the Christian Gospel during
spiritual counseling of American troops.
Weinstein decries what he calls the “virulent religious
oppression” perpetrated by conservative Christians, whom he refers to as
“monstrosities” and “pitiable unconstitutional carpetbaggers,” comparing them
to “bigots” in the Deep South during the civil rights era.
God help us now when someone with such visceral hatred of
conservative Christians—literally tens of millions of Americans—who says
sharing this gospel is “spiritual rape” is helping develop policies for how to
deal with Christians in the military.
Weinstein says those guilty of this “treason” must be
“punished.” Under federal law, the penalty for treason is death. And the Obama
administration is sitting down to talk with this man to craft new policies for
“religious tolerance” in our military.
