HUFFPOST – Kansas Lawmakers Pass Bill Urging Military To ‘Aggressively Defend Judeo-Christian Tradition’

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• Republican lawmakers in Kansas want the state Legislature to call on the U.S. military to aggressively defend the “Judeo-Christian tradition” in the face of alleged discrimination by the Defense Department.

• “There is certainly concern with what is going on at the Pentagon,” state Rep. Pete DeGraaf (R-Mulvane), a sponsor of the resolution, told The Huffington Post. “They are singling out Christianity with our troops. We have a long history of being a Judeo-Christian nation.”

• During Friday’s Senate debate, state Sen. Mitch Holmes (R-St. John) told colleagues that he knew of 20 instances of what he described as military attacks on Christianity, including a ban on Bible verses being printed on rifle scopes by the vendor and a proposed policy on proselytizing… The Defense Department has explained that the latter proposal would allow troops to express their faith but not to attempt to convert someone else. But Christian activists have raised concerns about Pentagon officials’ reported meeting with the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation about the proposal.

• “Unfortunately the Pentagon’s attack is not on all religions,” he said. “We are a Christian nation that is open to all religions. Our Founding Fathers are Christian, our philosophy is Christian, our laws are based on Judeo-Christian ethics.”

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