Re: Family Research Council Makes Outrageous Claim!
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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.On Jul 31, 2018, at 9:38 AM (name withheld) wrote:
Perhaps the following analogy to elections in our country will help the majority of Christians serving in our country’s Armed Forces regarding the separation of church and state. While a president may be elected by a number of partisan backers and supporters, that president has been elected to serve ALL of the voters, not just those who voted for him, and that president is expected to serve in office accordingly. Similarly Christian leaders in our country’s Armed Forces are expected to defend the rights of ALL people in our country, including the rights of all the other people serving in our country’s military uniforms whom those leaders may be leading.
The official actions of those Christian military leaders should not imply support or promotion of their respective religious beliefs and those official actions should not denigrate the religious faiths of others who are non-believers of those military leaders’ religious faiths. Those Christian leaders who wish to proselytize their respective religious faiths should do so off-base, out-of-uniform, and without reference to their military assignments. The actions in behalf of MRFF and its clients in various military commands can be viewed charitably by those clients’ respective military commanders as supporting a commander’s duty regarding the morale and welfare of the members of a military command rather than a personal attack on any particular commander or that commander’s religious faith. Why shouldn’t a commander’s duty regarding the spiritual welfare of the members of the command be as fundamental as food at the dining hall?
(name omitted, USAF retiree)
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