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In Sunday's New York Times article, "Questions Raised Anew About Religion in Military," Chaplain Carleton Birch of the Army’s Chief of Chaplains Office is quoted as saying in regard to the overtly religious content in the Army's interview with Terry Bradshaw for its suicide prevention program, “...someone’s personal faith testimony is part of their story, and we’re not going to go around and censor it.”

Chaplain Birch's statement indicates that he either hasn't watched the entire Bradshaw interview, or he wants to make it appear that some sort of completely unwarranted censorship of religion is being called for.

Bradshaw didn't just happen to talk about his personal faith as part of his story, as is quite clear if you watch the entire half hour interview. He was very deliberately prompted to talk about it by the interviewer.

It wasn't until nearly 18 minutes into the interview that Bradshaw even talked about his faith at all, and when he did it was only after being questioned by the interviewer about turning to his preacher. Bradshaw talked a little bit about his religion in answer to this question, saying he was a Baptist, and that he had gone to his preacher, who referred him to a Christian counselor. But, he didn't stay on the subject of his religion very long, moving quickly on to the next part of his story, which was that the Christian counselor he was sent to referred him to a psychiatrist. Bradshaw was then back on the non-religious subject of his medical diagnosis and his experience of finding the right medication that worked for him, so the interviewer once again steered him back to the subject of his faith, this time more directly, asking him flat out about his belief in God and if that had helped him.

Excerpts of Bradshaw's answers to these questions about his faith -- the most religious parts: about him being a Christian, being saved, turning to his preacher for help, etc. -- are then used as nearly two minutes of the six minute introduction segment of the Army's suicide prevention DVD, with a title screen captioned "The Importance of Faith." The questions asked by the interviewer to prompt Bradshaw to talk about his faith, seen in the clips shown here, are not shown in this segment on the DVD, giving the impression that Bradshaw talking about his faith was natural and unsolicited. This was simply not the case.