The Patriot Post - Alexander's Essay 5-2-2013

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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Essay 5-2-2013
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Obama to DoD: Courts Martial for the Faithful

By Mark Alexander

May 2, 2013

"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian." --George Washington (1778 )

Summary: Under the pretense of "religious tolerance," Barack Obama and his Leftist regime have endeavored to remove any expression or manifestation of faith, particularly Christianity, from government forums -- first and foremost, the U.S. military. This week, his civilian "leaders" at DoD ramped up that eradication, promising to bring criminal charges against any military personnel who express or share their faith.

The DoD's Frontal Assault on Faith

Today we observe the National Day of Prayer1, but if you're active duty or reserve military, you'd better not mention that to any of your fellow compatriots in uniform, or invite them to join in a prayer vigil, lest you find yourself in front of a military tribunal.

You read that correctly. It is no small irony this week that the Obama administration is suppressing faith rather than celebrating it.

The Left is constantly endeavoring to replace Rule of Law2 with the rule of men3. Because the former is predicated on the principle of Liberty "endowed by our Creator," Obama's administrators constantly look for ways to undermine Rule of Law by driving wedges between our Liberty and its foundational endowment4.

The highest profile and most influential sector of government, where Obama and his cadres can exercise the greatest degree of immediate dictatorial power in order to dislocate that endowment, is the Department of Defense.

In 2010, unable to reverse the Defense of Marriage Act (an affirmation of timeless principles upheld by all faiths), Obama called on his party-controlled House and Senate to force the institutionalization of gender-disorientation pathology5 in the military ranks -- a brazen internal assault on military order.

In a last legislative act on behalf of his most flamboyant constituency, Democrats passed and Obama signed his "do ask -- do tell6" legislation -- just days before the resounding Republican 2010 midterm takeover in the House.

At that time, Obama declared, "This law will strengthen our national security" -- this despite the fact that the greatest military breach of national security in history, the release of volumes of classified reports to WikiLeaks info anarchist Julian Assange, had just been allegedly committed by Army PFC Bradley Manning, because he was disgruntled over the breakup with his homosexual partner. 

Republicans may now control the House, but that isn't stopping Obama from a far bolder assault on Liberty and our military -- one that requires no legislative approval from Congress: expelling God from the trenches.

Under the pretense of "tolerance" and comporting with the errant assertion of a "Wall of Separation7" grossly distorting the First Amendment's8 succinct provision that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," Obama has decreed the removal of any expression or manifestation of faith within the ranks of the U.S. military.

From Day One of the Obama regime's rise to power, there have been numerous instances of incremental implementation of this assault on faith within the ranks, and the Air Force has been the administration's primary target since it is considered to be the most "faith-saturated" branch of service.

For example, at the Air Force Academy, we discovered that the words "so help me God" have been deleted from the cadet handbook's text of the cadet Oath of Allegiance and the officer Oath of Office. When The Patriot Post inquired with the AFA's public affairs office as to why those words had been removed from the handbook, the PAO dodged the question and tersely responded that we could file a "Freedom of Information Act" request. In other words: "Take a hike."

Obama's latest endeavor to eradicate expressions of faith by military personnel, however, is neither subtle nor incremental.

The loudest indication of this audacious abolition initiative was the directive from Obama's civilian leadership at the Pentagon last week that ultra-leftist Mikey Weinstein and Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, should vet the Air Force's new instructional guide on "religious tolerance."

Weinstein, who graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1977, is now a left-wing lawyer and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, dedicated to freedom from religion, not freedom of religion.

This is the same atheist who, in 2011, demanded and received an apology from the AFA for its cadet support of "Operation Christmas Child," which assembles and fills millions of shoe boxes with toys, school supplies and other gifts for impoverished children in 130 countries! Weinstein objected because OCC places a Christian tract in those boxes.

Among many other examples of Weinstein's crusade against Christianity, in 2012 he went after a Marine fighter squadron that changed its name from "Werewolves" to "Crusaders," with a cross and shield insignia. That squadron was forced to revert to "Werewolves."

In a vicious treatise on his view of faith and the military, actually entitled "Fundamentalist Christian Monsters9," Weinstein wrote: "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. ... We must vigorously support the continuing efforts to expose [these] agitators for what they are: die-hard enemies of the United States Constitution. Monsters, one and all. To do any 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."