Newsweek: Trump Effect Inspires Radical Christians in Military

The latest way to besmirch the nearly unblemished reputation of the American military is presented in the pages of Newsweek which screams from the rooftops that “Trump Effect Inspires Radical Christians in Military“. Their source? You guessed it – anti-Christian jihadist Mikey Weinstein of the misnamed Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

Many of the recent charges are coming from members of minority religions, including Roman Catholics, Jews and Muslims, and from atheists. Among the complaints: military family and marital therapy programs are being infused with Protestant Christianity, which would violate the U.S. Constitution; open anti-Semitism; anti-LGBT statements, posters, symbols and bullying; openly anti-Muslim teachers and Islamophobic attacks; a rise in on-base evangelizing; and increased pressure on recruits or lower-level personnel and service members to convert to fundamentalist Christianity.

“With the advent of Trump as the commander in chief of our armed forces, MRFF has experienced a massive influx of new military and civilian personnel complaints of religion-based prejudice and bigotry, most of them coming from non-fundamentalist Christians being persecuted by their military superiors for not being ‘Christian enough,’” Weinstein tells Newsweek.

I’ll remind readers that what would violate the 1st Amendment is the occurrence of Congress passing a law which makes any religion our national religion. The First Amendment says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….” Has anyone heard of that happening? I haven’t.

The MRFF estimates that 84 percent of military chaplains are evangelicals, and about a third of them are fundamentalists, defined by the MRFF as Christians who have decided that their evangelizing and proselytizing need not conform to the U.S. Constitution, case law or any DoD directives restricting their behavior.

The Christian right’s willingness to see Trump as a savior for their cause—if not a messianic figure, despite his living as an urban libertine who has had three wives and a history of lewd acts and statements—continues to grow. His selection of an evangelical as vice president, plus the appointment of at least nine evangelicals to his Cabinet, has apparently soothed any concerns the religious right had about his personal life.

I estimate that 99% of Mikey’s constituency are whiny little crybabies who fall for his shtick because they misread one line of the Constitution. If Trump is the problem, why were we treated to Mikey’s antics through the Obama years?

Weinstein also shared with Newsweek dozens of hate-filled emails directed to him from former and current service members, stating that they pray for his death and eternal life in hell. He says small victories like the one involving the Strong Bonds program last week can’t keep up with the changed tone at the top, and its effect on behavior in the middle and lower ranks among the fundamentalists in the military community.

“The reality of Trump being commander in chief has unleashed a raging battle cry along the lines of ‘There’s a new sheriff in town, and he loves white, male, straight, Christian fundamentalists one hell of a lot more than anyone else,’” Weinstein says. “The fundamentalist/Dominionist bullies have been emboldened by Trump’s own bigotry and that of his henchmen to such a profound degree that MRFF considers the dire situation to be nothing less than a full-fledged national security threat to our country.”

Did that hate mail begin on January 20th? I suspect that he has been getting hate mail since he founded his little band of uneducated butt-hurt snowflakes in 2005. His incessant bleating about Christians taking over the world has no basis in reality – he’s only doing it to line his pockets and avoid getting a real job. He’s this century’s Morris Dees fabricating a crisis where none exists in order to fleece Liberals.

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