My Comment:  Remember Madalyn Murray Ohair?  If you don’t or don’t know who she is click on her name to see.  She is the reason we can’t speak about the Bible or pray in Schools, so if your thinking ‘what can one man do to Christianity?’  Think again.  We are under attack again!  This time it is with the very security of our country.  Our military is being transformed and dismantled, wake up!

(WND)  That there have been those who oppose Christianity in all its forms and expressions at any time anywhere isn’t new. Those are personalities like Mikey Weinstein, of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, who recently said, “We face incredibly well-funded gangs of fundamentalist Christian monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans by forcing their weaponized and twisted version of Christianity upon their helpless subordinates in our nation’s armed forces.”

The fact the military is listening to him is new.

That was confirmed in a report by Fox News’ Todd Starnes, who said Weinstein “and others from his organization met privately with Pentagon officials on April 23.”

“He said U.S. troops who proselytize are guilty of sedition and treason and should be punished – by the hundreds if necessary…” Starnes reported.

And the military seems to be listening, he noted, based on a statements obtained from Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen: “Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense. … Court martials (sic) and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis and it would be inappropriate to speculate on the outcome in specific cases.”

“Someone needs to be punished for this,” Weinstein told Fox. “Until the Air Force or Army or Navy or Marine Corps punishes a member of the military for unconstitutional religious proselytizing and oppression, we will never have the ability to stop this horrible, horrendous, dehumanizing behavior.”

The Washington-based Family Research Council, which recently came under the gunfire of a leftist who said his goal was to kill as many people as he could, said the situation simply doesn’t make any sense.

“Why would military leadership be meeting with one of the most rabid atheists in America to discuss religious freedom in the military,” asked FRC chief Tony Perkins in a Fox interview. “That’s like consulting with China on how to improve human rights.”

Lt. Gen. William Boykin, who retired from the military and now is vice president at FRC, said, “If this policy goes forward, Christians within the military who speak of their faith could now be prosecuted as enemies of the state. This has the potential to destroy military recruiting across the services as Americans realize that their faith will be suppressed by joining the military.”

He said, “Our brave troops deserve better. If chaplains and other personnel are censored from offering the full solace of the Gospel, there is no religious freedom in the military.”

The organization has launched a petition to the Pentagon to scrub plans to censor religious beliefs.

The FRC petition states, “Our brave troops deserve better. Subverting the religious freedom of our troops both hurts the morale of our troops and puts our nation at risk by labeling courageous military personnel as enemies.”

“I urge you to resist the demands of anti-Christian activists who are calling for a court-martial order upon chaplains and service members who share their faith,” it says.

Tens of thousands of Americans already have joined the effort, which was brought about, according to the FRC, because of claims that “religion is one of the chief problems plaguing our troops. … [with] some saying that ‘religious proselytizing’ is at the top of the list of problems in the armed forces – even on par with sexual assault.”

The FRC noted the Washington Post reported that the Air Force had created a document “with the directive that leaders of all levels (including chaplains) may not ‘promote their personal religious beliefs to their subordinates or to extend preferential treatment for any religion.’”

Ron Crews, of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, told Starnes, “Saying that a service member cannot speak of his faith is like telling a service member he cannot talk about his spouse or children. I do not think the Air Force wants to ban personnel from protected religious speech.”

However, Weinstein told the Washington Post that such conversation actually is a national security threat and “sedition and treason.”

Ken Klukowski, a senior fellow for religious liberty at FRC, wrote online:

“He [Weinstein] cites Dr. James Dobson – the famous Christian founder of Focus on the Family – as ‘illustrating the extremist, militant nature of these virulently homophobic organizations’ rhetorically charged propaganda.’ Regarding those who teach orthodox Christian beliefs from the Bible, Weinstein concludes, ‘Let’s call these ignoble actions what they are: the senseless and cowardly squallings of human monsters.’”

Kulkowski continued, “Weinstein then endorses the ultra-left Southern Poverty Law Center, who publishes a list of ‘hate groups. Alongside truly deplorable organizations like the KKK, the SPLC’s list includes a host of traditional Christian organizations…”

In fact, it was the SPLC that was identified by Floyd Lee Corkins II, the confessed terrorist who attacked the FRC, as his source of information about which group to attack.

Corkins now has entered a plea of guilty to a charge of domestic terrorism, and during an interview with the FBI fingered the leftist SPLC for describing publicly the FRC as a “hate” group, and listing it that way on the Internet.

The video reveals Corkins entering the building and approaching Johnson, then leaning over to place his backpack on the floor. When he straightens up, Corkins points a handgun – a loaded semi-automatic – directly at Johnson and fires.

Despite being wounded in the arm, Johnson is able to subdue Corkins after a brief struggle.

It is during an interview with FBI officers later when Corkins fingers the SPLC for his inspiration.

Asked by the FBI how he picked the FRC to attack, Corkins states, “It was a, uh, Southern Poverty Law, lists, uh, anti-gay groups. I found them online. I did a little bit of research, went to the website, stuff like that.”

The FRC reports when Corkins later pleaded guilty to a charge of domestic terrorism, the SPLC “was connected in federal court in this first domestic terrorism conviction in Washington, D.C., under the post 9/11 law.”

“Floyd Corkins admitted his intention to ‘kill the people in the building and then smear a Chick-fil-A sandwich in their face,” the FRC explained. “The Southern Poverty Law Center has thus far refused to remove Family Research Council as a ‘hate group’ from its target map.”

Among the counts to which Corkins has pleaded guilty is an “Act of [Domestic] Terrorism while Armed.”

During an FBI interview of Corkins after he was taken into custody, an agent asked Corkins, “What was your intention … You’re … a political activist you said?”

Corkins responded: “Yeah, I wanted to kill the people in the building and then smear a Chicken-fil-A sandwich on their face.”

FBI: “And you, what was your intention when you went in there with the gun?”

Corkins: “Uh, it was to kill as many people as I could.”

The significance of the Chick-fil-A sandwiches Corkins bought and brought to FRC was that the owner of the restaurant chain was under fire last summer from homosexual activists for stating his support for the morality of traditional marriage.

That the U.S. government previously has utilized the opinions endorsed by the SPLC is evidenced in a number of ways, including the fact that the U.S. Army Reserve recently was found to be using a training brief that slams Catholics and evangelical Christians.

Members of Congress were outraged.

“Our nation needs to have an honest conversation about religious extremism and what we can do to avoid religious violence. However, labeling these major world religions as extremists is wrong and hurtful,” said a letter by Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., that was signed by dozens of other members.

It was addressed to Army Secretary John. M . McHugh at the Pentagon.

“We call on you to rescind this briefing and set the record straight on the Army’s view on these faith groups by providing a balanced briefing on religious extremism,” the letter said.

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