BREITBART – Pentagon May Court Martial Soldiers Who Share Christian Faith

Umm, I don’t see any hateful coments, am I missing something?

Are you guys imagining your own persecution as an activist group to get attention?

Big Deal, you don’t like Christians…. No one seems to care but you!

Crickets…….. More Crickets…… LMFAO.

It’s equally funny that lawyers, ‘non-lawyers’, civilians and service members seem to forget that when we take an oath and serve, we willfully give up certain freedoms. For instance, the 1st Amendment does give us free speech. However, does Article 88 not directly contradict that free speech?

“Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”

Next, lets address your misleading interpretation of ‘proselytization’. According to Webster’s:
Definition of PROSELYTIZE
intransitive verb
1: to induce someone to convert to one’s faith
2: to recruit someone to join one’s party, institution, or cause
transitive verb
: to recruit or convert especially to a new faith, institution, or cause

Also according to Websters:
Preach

1: to deliver a sermon
2: to urge acceptance or abandonment of an idea or course of action; specifically : to exhort in an officious or tiresome manner
transitive verb
1: to set forth in a sermon
2: to advocate earnestly
3: to deliver (as a sermon) publicly
4: to bring, put, or affect by preaching

The difference between the two is quite a bit. A pastor does not stand at the pulpit and proselytize to his (her) congregation. They are already converted and or introduced to the faith of the church they are in. A group of like minded individuals sharing, reaffirming and discussing their faith does not require nor generate the same fervor as recruiting potential followers. It would be a silly waste of energy for a pastor (preacher, priest, shaman, cleric, etc) to do so. However, when you are recruiting (witnessing) you are trying to sell your beliefs and convince whomever (whether willing or unwilling participants) that your belief is the ‘right’ way and they should join you. This takes an intenser passion, fervor and persistance, often to unwilling participants.
Unlike unwilling participants in the civilian sector, subordinates cannot simply dismiss themselves from the presence of a higher ranking official, mandatory events or duties without a reprisal (and likely UCMJ action).

Requests that Christian evangelicals respect the same boundaries they seem to expect other religions to is not persecution. It’s unit and community cohesion. You cannot demand every other belief system (or lack of) stay in a metaphorical closet whilst the ‘priviledged’ religion gets to utilize government time, money and resources to expand their business. Any other ‘company’ would be in jailed for doing such.