Chris Rodda: U.S. Soldiers Punished for Not Attending Christian Concert

[davidfcooper]

For the past several years, two U.S. Army posts in Virginia, Fort Eustis and Fort Lee, have been putting on a series of what are called Commanding General's Spiritual Fitness Concerts. As I've written in a number of other posts, "spiritual fitness" is just the military's new term for promoting religion, particularly evangelical Christianity. And this concert series is no different.

On May 13, 2010, about eighty soldiers, stationed at Fort Eustis while attending a training course, were punished for opting out of attending one of these Christian concerts. The headliner at this concert was a Christian rock band called BarlowGirl, a band that describes itself as taking "an aggressive, almost warrior-like stance when it comes to spreading the gospel and serving God."

Read the full article on huffingtonpost.com

Posted via email from davidfcooper's posterous

Comments

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

This is an outrage and a clear violation of the constitution's first amendment establishment clause. Fortunately the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is on the case.