It's not about "freedom of religion." It's about COERCION of religious beliefs, something else entirely.
http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1314533&secid=1
It's a lengthier article than the first (and NOT a "blog") but the gist is that there have been complaints among servicemen of religious discrimination, hence the revision in the guidelines. The only freedom anywhere is that it gives chaplains the right to refuse orders that violate their belief.
"New Air Force religion guidelines issued Thursday give chaplains the right to refuse orders that violate their beliefs.
Guidelines issued last summer required chaplains to minister to people of all faiths in a nondemoninal setting, causing an outcry from evangelical groups that wanted their clerics to promote Christianity.
The new rules appeased those groups by allowing evangelicals to 'adhere to their tenets,' and only participate in religious activities that comply with their beliefs.
The Air Force dropped a provision requiring chaplains to repect the rights of all faiths and nonbelievers.
The change displeased civil rights groups that supported a prior set of rules issued to address claims that began last year of religious discrimination at the Air Force Academy.
'The rules show that if you don't believe, you're a second-class member of the U.S. Air Force,' said Barry Lynn, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Americans United for the Separation of Church and State..."
If you read the article and step back and look at the big picture, you would get the distinct impression that there is a trend to make christianity the official American religion, and that is comical.
Don't forget that Hitler and his minions firmly believed that God was on their side.
That was the sole purpose of this thread, to hopefully have some thinking going on, but apparently it flopped in that respect, lol.
Oh well.
