Join the Military, Become a MissionaryTommi Avicolli-Meccabyline‚ Jan. 09‚ 2009An official military suicide prevention program that openly promotes religion over no religion and Christianity over other faiths? U.S. military personnel spreading the so-called word of God to Iraqis and Afghans via Bibles supplied to them by a fundamentalist group? A military cable channel that features fundamentalist Christians preaching the word of their deity to the troops? Are these things kosher under the U.S. Constitution? Not according to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), a watchdog group that looks out for the rights of soldiers not to be proselytized while in uniform. MRFF recently amended its federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense to include what it terms “despicable unconstitutional promotions of fundamentalist Christianity in the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.” |