Good for you guys!
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This post was created on the previous version of the MRFF website, and may not be fully accessible to users of assistive technology. If you need help accessing this content, please reach out via email.As a Vietnam-era veteran, married to another Vietnam vet, I fully support your campaign. Back when we were in, we experienced no pressure to conform to any given religious group. He was a diminishing Baptist (diminished pretty much to nothing in ‘Nam) and I was a…nothing, exactly, though brought up Episcopalian. We were let alone. We’re now both church members but I believe firmly that the current hate-filled right-wing “Christianity” isn’t the real thing. (We’re also living proof that it doesn’t take constant nagging and scolding by evangelicals for someone to choose their belief system.) I don’t want a theocracy in this country–of any religion. (Personal opinion–worst thing that happened to Christianity was Constantine’s conversion…it should never have been a state religion.)
Anyway. Yes, I made a contribution. I had already been protesting the intrusion of religion where it shouldn’t be for some years, including letters to my (useless damn right-wing Republican) Congresscritter. (One of those who never served, but faithfully wraps himself in the flag-plus-cross every election season.) I don’t find that keeping religion on one side and citizenship on the other is a hardship or any “attack” on my religious beliefs. Religious fervor is as dangerous as a rattlesnake bite–more so, because it spreads like brushfire and snakes bite one person at a time.
Best,
(name withheld)