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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsDemanding New Military Rules on Religion
By Ed Brayton
Stars and Stripes reports on a couple different groups asking Obama to set new rules against religious proselytizing in the military.
A coalition of atheists and agnostics wants the new White House to protect young military members from what they see as rampant religious discrimination in the services.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...The Secular Coalition for America held a news conference Monday urging new rules against proselytizing and more training for chaplains on how to handle nonreligious troops.
"When they say 'there are no atheists in foxholes' it's slanderous," said Wayne Adkins, a former Army first lieutenant who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. "To deny their existence is to deny that they serve."
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).
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