Pentagon Taps Anti-Christian Extremist for Religious Tolerance Policy
“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. 

Pentagon Backtracks
on Evangelization Comments, Investigation Launched
The
Department of Defense spokesperson who made the comments backtracked in a new
statement Thursday that explained, “Service members can share their faith
(evangelize), but must not force unwanted, intrusive attempts to convert others
of any faith or no faith to one’s beliefs (proselytization).” “Members of our
military should not be denied the very freedoms they fight to defend. Freedom of
religion and speech are paramount among those freedoms,” said Legal Counsel
Joseph La Rue. “We appreciate the Pentagon’s clarification, but little or no
evidence exists of coercive proselytization in the military, so we are still
troubled over what motivated the original comments.”