*Source: Breitbart
“Today, 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.”
Those words were recently written by Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF),
in a column he wrote
for the Huffington Post. Weinstein will be a consultant to the Pentagon
to develop new policies on religious tolerance, including a policy for
court-martialing military chaplains who share the Christian Gospel
during spiritual counseling of American troops.
Weinstein decries what he calls the “virulent religious oppression”
perpetrated by conservative Christians, whom he refers to as
“monstrosities” and “pitiable unconstitutional carpetbaggers,” comparing
them to “bigots” in the Deep South during the civil rights era.
He 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.”
Weinstein then endorses the ultra-left Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC), 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 (for their support of traditional
marriage) and Tea Party organizations (for supporting limited
government). Weinstein says SPLC correctly labels them all as “hate
groups.”
Floyd Lee Corkins—the first person ever convicted of domestic terrorism in federal court under the laws of Washington, D.C.—
told the FBI
that he chose his intended shooting spree targets from the SPLC
website's map. Corkins was arrested at the offices of the Family
Research Council (FRC) after shooting a security guard in August 2012.
His court documents state that Corkins
intended to kill as many people as possible.
Weinstein also supports Lt. Col. Jack Rich, the Army officer who
wrote to subordinate officers that soldiers who hold traditional
Christian beliefs agreeing with organizations on SPLC’s “hate group”
list
are incompatible with “Army values" and should be carefully watched and excluded from military service.
According to Weinstein, “We should as a nation effusively applaud Lt.
Col. Rich.” He adds that the nation should “venture further” than
Rich’s recommendations, saying, “We MUST vigorously support the
continuing efforts to expose pathologically anti-gay, Islamaphobic, and
rabidly intolerant agitators for what they are: die-hard enemies of the
United States Constitution. Monsters, one and all. To do anything less
would be to roll out a red carpet to those who would usher in a
blood-drenched, draconian era of persecutions, nationalistic militarism,
and superstitious theocracy.”
Many media outlets are silent on this disturbing new alliance between
fanatical secularists and leaders in the Pentagon appointed by
President Barack Obama and Secretary Chuck Hagel, under which the U.S.
military would officially consult with someone with such
foaming-at-the-mouth passionate hostility toward traditional Christians,
including Evangelicals and devout Catholics. The military—America’s
most heroic and noble institution—includes countless people of faith,
and this represents a radical departure from the U.S. military’s warm
embrace of people of faith in its ranks.
Yet the little coverage this story is getting is positive, such as
this Washington Post column
that somehow manages not to carry any of these frightening quotes from
Weinstein and instead actually endorses the Pentagon’s meeting with him.
Sally Quinn’s
Post column also approvingly quotes MRFF
Advisory Board member Larry Wilkerson as saying, “Sexual assault and
proselytizing, according to Wilkerson, ‘are absolutely destructive of
the bonds that keep soldiers together.’”
Did you get that? They say having someone share the Christian gospel
with you is akin to being raped. Weinstein makes sure there are no
doubts, being quoted by the
Post as adding, “This is a national
security threat. What is happening [aside from sexual assault] is
spiritual rape. And what the Pentagon needs is to understand is that it
is sedition and treason. It should be punished.”
Another MRFF Advisory Board member, Ambassador Joe Wilson (the
far-left husband of CIA employee Valerie Plame from the Iraq War’s
yellow-cake uranium scandal a decade ago), said a military chaplain “is
to minister to spiritual needs. You don’t proselytize. It’s a workplace
violation.”
In other words, it should be the official policy of the United States
to decree what a human being’s spiritual needs are, and punish for
violations a military officer who is
an ordained clergyman who attempts to share his own personal faith with another service member
when discussing religious matters. You cannot imagine such a thing ever happening under any previous president.
Weinstein goes on:
If these fundamentalist Christian monsters of human degradation … 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 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.
God help us now when someone with such visceral hatred of
conservative Christians—literally tens of millions of Americans—who says
sharing this gospel is “spiritual rape” is helping develop policies for
how to deal with Christians in the military.
Weinstein says those guilty of this “treason” must be “punished.”
Under federal law, the penalty for treason is death. And the Obama
administration is sitting down to talk with this man to craft new
policies for “religious tolerance” in our military.
Breitbart News legal columnist Ken Klukowski is senior fellow for
religious liberty at the Family Research Council and on faculty at
Liberty University School of Law.
