Making mountains out of molehills

Published On: January 20, 2015|Categories: MRFF's Inbox|0 Comments|

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Don’t you people have better things to do than make an issue out of an old recruiting Air Force advertisement.  Shame on you picking on our military when they make so many sacrifices for us.
What’s wrong with “God and Country” anyhow?  We have a good forgiving God who tells us to bring everyone to heaven with us.  Not a God that tells one to chop off the heads of others.  
 
It is faith that often saves the lives of our soldiers; it is our prayers to our God that we hope brings them home to us alive.  Not killed by those who wish to martyr themselves!

(name withheld)


Dear (name withheld),

Mikey is busy helping our soldiers and asked me to respond.

You and others are missing the point: the poster – as worded – is unconstitutional and the article you linked to said so. Even the Army Recruiting Command said that if the person, who went outside of the 47 accepted wordings for that poster, had requested permission to use it, he would have been denied…under the Constitution.

We are not a Theocracy like some other countries that fight religious wars. By placing God (or any God) before Country sends a chilling message to our enemies that we, too, are in a religious war.

Our soldiers take the oath of enlistment to uphold the Constitution – not the Bible.

Our military is secular and must remain that way. Any person, who wants to defend our country against all enemies foreign and domestic, is free to do so regardless of their religious beliefs or non-belief in a deity.

What if the recruiter was something other than a Christian and went behind the back of the approving process and the poster read ON A MISSION FOR BOTH ATHEISTS AND COUNTRY, or ON A MISSION FOR BOTH HINDUS AND COUNTRY, or ON A MISSION FOR BOTH MUSLIMS AND COUNTRY?

And, yes, there are Muslims in our military that serve honorably.

The fact remains that this recruiter knew it wouldn’t pass muster under the laws of our land and did it anyway. It wasn’t taken down because of “political correctness” but the law.

What the media fails to acknowledge – and knows full well but chooses to omit this fact – is that we DO NOT act on our own but on the soldiers’ complaints of blatant disregard for our Constitution.

The reason that poster was in use for that length of time is because no soldier made an issue out of it until recently.

We are constantly labeled as “atheists”, “liberals” and “left wing” which are lies. We are apolitical.

We are not anti-God or anti-Christian. Mikey is Jewish and prays 3 times a day to the same Father we do. A full 75% or more of the Board, Advisory Board, volunteers and supporters with the MRFF are Christians. Out of our 40,000+ military clients (1 can represent 50 and 1 does represents 100) are Christians. If anything, we represent Christians more than any other religion but you won’t hear about it because that wouldn’t make a Christian angry against us.

We are not stopping anyone from praying or asking them to abandon their faith.

I, too, prayed for my son-in-law while he was in Iraq and thankfully he came home safe and in one piece.

The following statement in the article is demeaning and mocking:

“Pretty strong words from a grown man who still allows himself to be called “Mikey.”

I don’t see anyone going after “Bobby” Jindal whose real name is Piyush Jindal. “Bobby” isn’t even a nickname like Mikey is from Michael. Piyush gave himself that nickname from a character in the Brady Bunch series. When is he going to grow up and use his real name?

Hopefully, I have shown you that we are not attacking the Christian faith but adhering to the Constitution.

If the recruiter had put up a poster with a different God, we would have gone after that one, too.

God bless.

Pastor Joan
MRFF Advisory Board Member

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