WORLDNETDAILY – U.S. Dept. of Defense’s war on religion, Part 1

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Selected Article Excerpts:

• Anyone who knows me knows that for my whole life I’ve been a huge supporter of our U.S. military personnel, who I too congratulate about their victory in Iraq. But when our president and officials in the U.S. Department of Defense exchange a war abroad for a religious war at home, can’t we see something else is seriously awry in this administration?
• It’s one thing to watch “Merry Christmas” be omitted from signs in your favorite department store, but quite another to see Bibles withheld from wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, or WRMC. It’s true! On Dec. 2, Tony Perkins and the Family Resource Council, or FRC, reported that it discovered a September memo released at the esteemed military hospital, in which Navy officials announced that “no religious items (including Bibles, reading material, and/or artifacts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.”
• If you think this is an isolated circumstance, consider in the last six months alone the following dozen-plus examples reported by the FRC, Rep. Forbes office, and a few of my own I found, which document how religious freedom and Christian liberty in particular have been limited, quarantined, omitted, or outright obliterated.
  • The Air Force Academy apologized for merely announcing Operation Christmas Child – a Christian-based charity and relief program designed to send holiday gifts to impoverished children around the world (November 2011).
  • The Air Force is building an $80,000 Stonehenge-like worship site for “earth based” religions, including “pagans, Wiccans, druids, witches, and followers of Native American faiths” (November 2011).
  • The Marine Corps consider tearing down a Camp Pendleton cross meant to honor fallen heroes (November 2011).
  • Air Force officials strip religious curriculum from a 20-year-old course on “just war theory” (September 2011).
  • The Department of Veterans Affairs censors references to God and Jesus during prayers at Houston National Cemetery (June 2011).
  • Just last week, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation sent a letter to officials at Travis Air Force Base demanding the removal or transfer of a nativity scene and a menorah that are part of a larger holiday display on the base (December 2011).

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