CHRIS RODDA – HUFFINGTON POST – Liberty Institute’s Kelly Shackelford Spreads ‘Fear and Misinformation’

Published On: March 7, 2014|Categories: Top News|0 Comments|

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On February 27 and 28, the Air Force Academy held its annual National Character & Leadership Symposium, an event described as “one of the nation’s premier symposia in the field of character and leadership development.” The speakers at this annual symposium include “distinguished scholars, military leaders, corporate executives, world-class athletes, and others.” The attendees are not only Air Force Academy cadets and staff, but also students and faculty from civilian colleges and universities, ROTC detachments, and international delegations.

One of the speakers at this year’s National Character & Leadership Symposium was Kelly Shackelford, the President & CEO of the Liberty Institute, which describes itself as “the largest legal organization dedicated solely to defending and restoring religious liberty in America.”

Shackelford’s Liberty Institute is a member organization of the so-called “Restore Military Religious Freedom Coalition,” a coalition formed last year to champion Rep. John Fleming’s anything-but-religious-liberty amendment to the FY14 National Defense Authorization Act. As I’ve previously written, Fleming’s (failed) amendment was not about religious liberty — it was nothing but a sneaky attempt to give permission to anti-gay Christians in the military to freely discriminate against and harass LGB service members in a post-DADT and post-DOMA military under the guise of religious liberty.

Among Shackelford’s cohorts in this “Restore Military Religious Freedom Coalition” is none other than retired Army general and all around nutcase Jerry “my god is bigger than their god” Boykin, who recently made national headlines once again when he proclaimed that Jesus would be coming back toting an AR-15 assault rifle.

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