Letter to Representative Turner
From: (name withheld)
Subject: Letter to Representative Turner
Date: June 27, 2023 at 5:54:07 AM MDT
To: [email protected]
Hi,
Attached is my letter to Congressman Turner. In case you don’t do attachments, the text is below.
Thanks for your work,
(name withheld)
27 June 2023
To: Congressman Michael Turner
Via Fax: Fax: (202) 225-6754
Dear Congressman Turner,
When I was at the Naval Academy over fifty years ago, I was marched to mandatory church services every Sunday. Although this policy is rightly changed now, it taught me acutely how wrong it is for the military to force religion on its troops.
I support the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which rightly keeps military staff from pushing religious views. To me, your actions trying to keep soldiers and sailors from free communication to the MRFF represent a distortion of the freedom those men and women fight to protect. I urge you to withdraw your amendment to the NDAA.
Sincerely,
(name withheld)
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Mike Turner comes from the great state of Ohio! You know, the same state that tried to force a nine year old rape victim to carry to term! The State that also gives us the likes of another MAGAT Jim Jordan!
Mike Turner got the coveted right-winger award in 2008 and 2010 of being “one of the most corrupt in congress!” Fed public money to both his wives. I guess he was emulating right-wing SCROTUM justices. And of course, the infamous butt-wrestling coach Jim Jordan, soon to have his own butt in a jam over lawsuits by sexually abused wrestlers.
What’s up with Ohio (remember “four dead in Ohio”).
To single the MRFF out for particular treatment in an amendment to the FY24 NDAA is synonymous with Jim Jordan holding hearings on public urination in DC, great uses of tax dollars.
Both MAGAT apologists and both will get their own. What’s the saying, “what goes around comes around?”
Military recruiting efforts already at historic lows. Add to it the “Nones” awareness of the requirement to become “the Army of Christ,” and watch what happens to recruitment numbers. The organization that Jordan nor Turner would ever serve in (nor would their children), will soon hit a crises mode and panic will set in. The right-wing won’t institute a draft because that will affect their children and grand children, so…..they’ll lower the standards……again!
77% of 17-24 year olds aren’t even eligible, 30% of that number for obesity, most coming from the Christian right after their years of inculcated Christian emasculation.
The MRFF will always be around protecting constitutional rights. Personally, I think Mikey should expand the MRFF to an all-inclusive National program to alleviate the misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, anti-semitism, and racial prejudice exhibited by the Evangelical Christian Nationalist MAGATS across American society. If they really believed their “End-Times” dogma, they’d go now! Beat the rush!
Per the writer above, Donate to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation! If you truly value a Constitutionally-empowered and strong military with World-Class combat capability and readiness, donate to the MRFF to keep our troops focused on their military occupational specialties rather than Commander-led Bible studies!
God doesn’t know jack shit about how to operate a Patriot Air Defense system. He knows nothing about flying an F16, or what an M2 Bradley is for, an M270 MLRS, M1 Abrahams, et al. And if Uvalde, Sandy Hook, and Parkland are indicators, he couldn’t give two shits less about your prayers!
The other option is to follow the religious-right down the rabbit hole and pray we can sustain our next engagement. You see what “PRAYER” does for preventing little babies from getting their faces shot off in school classrooms! How’s that working out?
Ironmoped, you said “If they really believed their “End-Times” dogma, they’d go now! Beat the rush!”
You forgot the number one reason Nationalist Christians want their End Times Review – to gloat over the heathens as they are plunged into a lake of fire to be burned alive for eternity!!!! The revenge pron urge is huge with this crowd so they won’t be leaving early; too much suffering to watch.
I’ve said it before, when all religion is banned from the public square it will be entirely due to Nationalist Christians and their efforts to take over the country. They could have learned to share as their Lord and Savior instructs in their Holy Book, but noooooo…… they had to have dominion over all things which results in no religion in the public square for anyone.
As Ironmoped asks, how’s that working out?
+1 to the first two comments. It’s clear that many on the religious right in the US pay a lot of lip-service to patriotism and the values enshrined in the constitution, and they make a big show of waving the flag, but they don’t believe in basic freedoms like freedom of religion. They are doing everything they can to turn the US into a theocracy.
If they’re successful, their descendants in the same religious demographic are going to be very sorry, when in just a few decades believers of their own faith will not dominate the state and federal legislatures any more. Then, the precedents they’ve set of promoting their religion through government will produce laws that will disadvantage and upset them very much. And nobody outside their group will shed a tear for them.
Naval Academy grad, you make my heart sing. Thank you for writing “Congressman” Turner.
2nd Jeff’s words, “Go Navy!”
I was in Iran during the last theocratic takeover (yeah, I’m old). You don’t want it! Full stop!
Grey One – Your words are always great. Guess it was wishful thinking on my part!
I hope everyone has a great Independence Day celebration. I know supporters of the MRFF are looking forward to a second Independence Day, one free from the bigotry of the Christian Dominionists.
Evangelical numbers are down and as Jeff says, it’s going to take a while. Southern Baptists have lost over 2 million in the last decade and a half, others following the trend. Rapid descent. Non religiously affiliated at 25% and growing rapidly. We’re getting closer to “a more perfect Union!”