http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6610025&ft=1&f=2
Religious Group's Ties to Pentagon Questioned
Listen to this story... by Guy Raz
All Things Considered, December 11, 2006 · A military watchdog group is
asking the Pentagon whether senior uniformed officers had permission to
appear in a video endorsing an evangelical Christian group.
The Christian Embassy is an evangelical missionary group focused on
government workers in Washington, DC. The group's recent promotional video
features endorsements from several prominent military officers.
In response, another group, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, is
preparing a possible class-action lawsuit against the Pentagon for what
lawyer Michael Weinstein calls "the creation of a theocracy, of a
particular fundamentalist perspective within our own military branches."
The foundation says a core of evangelicals are gaining influence at the
Pentagon, and violating military policies. It cites Wednesday-morning
prayer sessions in the Pentagon's executive dining room, which features
speakers from the Christian Embassy.
The Pentagon released a statement Monday insisting it does not endorse any
religious viewpoint or organization. But the Defense Department also
promised to review the promotional video. In it, Brig. Gen. Vince Brooks
and seven other uniformed officers endorse the Christian Embassy.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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