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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.I am not a religious person but must tell you that your mission is wrong. There are too many people in this country that don’t understand what freedom of religion means. You are in that category.
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We understand freedom of religion very well. As the founders intended, the freedom of religious belief even includes the freedom to have no belief at all if one so chooses. And no matter the choice one makes, it must be respected.
We frankly don’t care whether people choose to believe or not, nor do we care how they choose to express their belief. We do care, though, about the government and those representing it endorsing one faith over another, as did Major General Olsen, in direct violation of both Air Force regulations and U.S. law.
So we agree with you that “too many people in this country… don’t understand what freedom of religion means.” Too many also don’t know that there are restrictions on that freedom when one is in uniform and thus part of the government.
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It is entirely possible, even probably, that you are the one that does not understand what freedom of religion is, and likely you do not understand what the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment means either, especially with respect to the military. Could you please explain what you think “freedom of religion” means?
If the general violated any law, then it was a law that should be violated.
“I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
― Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience