News from the Plains: All this RED can make you BLUE
Onward Christian Soldiers (Seriously, just the Christians)
by Barry Friedman
He legislates for our sins. And this is the thanks he gets?
Rep. Jim Bridenstine, joining a coalition of groups that say religious liberty in the military is under attack, said Tuesday that Christian soldiers should “have the right to live and act like Christians.”
And who exactly is saying they can't, other than the
voices in his and the various heads at the Family Research Council?
In a list of Top 100 problems facing the military, the difficulties Christian soldiers have in practicing their faith is coming in at about 116.
Bridenstine, a Tulsa Republican and a former U.S. Navy pilot, said he and others weren't suggesting that every service member be a Christian or live and act like one, but that military policy should allow members of all faiths to express their beliefs.
Yeah. And Haggadahs are on sale at the
P/X.
Bridenstine, who has not one, but two photos of himself in uniform on his official congressional website (Really, we get it) didn't cite any examples of Christian soldiers not being able to practice their faith--why does he need facts, after all, when his arguments "feel" right to the assembled throng at his town hall meetings and compadres behind the lectern who think the United States is going to hell in a Kenyan-made hand basket--but he does find the bottoms of fictional barrels to scrape when he wants to prove how soldiers of other faiths are freer than Christian ones.
Here's Bridenstine after the massacre of Fort Hood.
Bridenstine was speaking at a Washington news conference sponsored by the conservative Family Research Council. He said the Fort Hood shootings were "the hideous but entirely predictable consequences of political correctness in the military today."
In some congressional districts, anyone who made remarks like that would be dismissed for showing the effects of too many head injuries and not enough leafy vegetables; for
64% of voters in OK-1, though, comments like that get you an applause break.
So the massacre could have been prevented--it was entirely predictable?--if we returned to the Halcyon days when the armed forces sanctioned generals calling anyone named Habib "a towel head" and anyone named Rabinowitz "a Christ-killing kike"?
And who doesn't miss the time when you could yell "Free mustache rides" to female recruits who walked by?
Bridenstine supports the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, which contains an amendment authored by Republican John Fleming of Louisiana that states the military “shall accommodate the beliefs, actions, and speech,” except “in cases of military necessity." If passed, it will probably preclude disciplining service members who hurl racial or gender slurs at homosexuals or females and then claim religious freedom or proclivity as a defense.
But it's just (Christian) boys being boys! Don't get your Old Testaments or Korans or Constitutions in a wad.
The White House objected to the language in the bill, as well it should, which caused Bridenstine to head to Gethsemane.
“Whatever the president does or does not write in a signing statement about these so-called, quote ‘adverse affects’ of religious liberties in the military, they will not be able to smother the love of God, which burns so brightly in the hearts of most of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.”
And while the rest of us reach for the insulin to regulate our hyperglycemia and spot a wall into which to run our heads, the crowd at the town hall meeting inside the Bailey Ranch Clubhouse in Owasso, Oklahoma goes wild.
Family Research Council, Passover