WASHINGTON TIMES – Military urged to stay away from National Day of Prayer event
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- The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, run by former Air Force member Mikey Weinstein, is petitioning U.S. military leaders to abstain from attending a National Day of Prayer, saying the annual event is nothing short of right-wing Christian fundamentalism.
- The foundation isn’t railing against the National Day of Prayer observation, but against the National Day of Prayer Task Force, the group in charge of organizing the event on Capitol Hill. Task force members say the event is nonpartisan and nondenominational, and wants only to “pray for the well-being of America and for those in leadership
,” the Army Times reported.
But Mr. Weinstein said that’s not true.