I do not have time to craft a decent diary, or tend a crap diary, but....
My Facebook page this evening is awash in agitation about the Obama administration's intentions to conduct courts martial against Christian soldiers. Links and likes are popping up even from my nominally liberal friends who don't know how to evaluate sources or assess nuance and context. Besides that it seems that Mikey and/or the MRFF has deliberately taken on an extremely provocative approach.
From Breitbart.com
The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: "Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense...Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis...”.
Being convicted in a court martial means that a soldier has committed a crime under federal military law. Punishment for a court martial can include imprisonment and being dishonorably discharged from the military.
So President Barack Obama’s civilian appointees who lead the Pentagon are confirming that the military will make it a crime--possibly resulting in imprisonment--for those in uniform to share their faith
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http://www.breitbart.com/...
Mikey apparently penned a strongly worded rant on HuffPo, Truthout and Alternet, which is being widely excerpted and quoted:
If these fundamentalist Christian monsters of human degradation, marginalization, humiliation and tyranny cannot broker or barter your acceptance of their putrid theology, then they crave for your universal silence in the face of their rapacious reign of theocratic terror. Indeed, they ceaselessly lust, ache, and pine for you to do absolutely nothing to thwart their oppression. Comply, my friends, and you, too, become as monstrously savage as are they. I beg you, do not feed these hideous monsters with your stoic lethargy, callousness and neutrality. Do not lubricate the path of their racism, bigotry, and prejudice. Doing so directly threatens the national security of our beautiful nation.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://truth-out.org/...
http://www.alternet.org/...
Those are some pretty intemperate words, to the point that I had to wonder if there had been some hacking going on. But the Military Religious Freedom Foundation site doesn't indicate that such a thing has happened.
http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/
This is going to be a firestorm of major proportions, and it may not end well for the MRFF or the cause of stopping theocratic influence in the military.