Ethics

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Next Big Religious Right Freakout

By Ed Brayton

The Worldnutdaily is throwing a fit about this and you can expect more howls of outrage from the religious right over the next few days about it. A military base in Kosovo has apparently made the perfectly reasonable decision that since military chapels are used for services by all of the many faiths with adherents in the service, they should not have crosses permanently affixed to them that are only for the Christian faith. Cue the weeping and gnashing of teeth.

U.S. soldiers stationed at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo may be stunned to find three wooden crosses stripped from the exterior grounds of their chapel in coming weeks - and many never saw it coming.

Several high-ranking officers have met behind closed doors to discuss plans for the crosses. They have decided to remove, and perhaps destroy, the Christian symbols located outside Peacekeeper's Chapel in the name of free exercise of religion.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 29, 2008 (boomark / email).