Sick Individuals

Dear Military Religious Freedom Foundation:

Your recent efforts to remove any and all religious references to Air Force training materials is the act of individuals truly ignorant of the constitution’s content and respect for those that developed this document. It also disrespects the memories of all our fallen heroes of all faiths that have acted to defend and protect our great country. If you would prefer to live in a country devoid of any religious respect and tolerance I would invite you to move there immediately.

The continued operations of organizations like yours in this country is an obnoxious fact that we tolerate under our constitution so try respecting other points of view. I doubt that is possible. Perhaps we will all live to see the day organizations like yours are closed because the people have a better education and your ignorance cannot prevail.

(name withheld)

Dear (name withheld),

Thank you for your earnest but sadly misplaced E-Mail to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

Our recent efforts were not to remove any and all religious references in USAF training manuals ands materials but to remove the only religious references, those of exclusive Dominionist Christian origin.

If you simply google “Supreme Court Decisions on the Separation of Church and State” you will see the great number of rulings made by the US Supreme Court relative to government religious neutrality, all of which are made part of the First Amendment.

In this case we are dealing with the Lemon Vs. Kurzman decision of 1971, in which the court held that government officials including the armed forces, may not advance, prefer, recommend or proselytize one religion over another or religion over non-religion.

The exclusive use of Christian materials and doctrine by those in charge of the training program violates constitutional provision and is strictly forbidden.

It is the exclusive and illegal use of unilateral Christian material in the program that dishonors the memory of our fallen heroes of different faiths.

We are currently addressing over 23,000 written complaints, calls and comments from our young men and women in the armed forces of all ranks and job descriptions, ranging from our cadets at service academies to military training facilities and even combat zones. These deal with coercive and command centered Christian proselytizing. Most of these are from self-identified Christians who are being told they are not “Christian enough.”

It is not MRFF but those who would bastardize the Christian religion by using coercion to sell it who should move to a country where one religion rule is commonplace, although I think they are pretty much already taken by other exclusive religions.

MRFF can only respect the point of view of those who obey civil law and Constitutional provision. Those who are in violation of law and Constitutional provision deserve no respect nor should they be allowed to continue in positions of authority. Ignorance of these laws and provisions appear to have put you on the wrong track. Sick individuals simply repeat rote learned phrases and dont seek truth. It would seem that your jugement of us was premature and lacked the proper research to back your charges.

There is a world of enlightening information available on Christian Dominionism in the Armed Forces at militaryreligiousfreedom.org.

Sincerely,

Rick Baker
Regional Coordinator
MRFF