Darn it, the military is about winning wars and killing enemies, not about personal self-expression or making various special interest groups feel better about themselves.
Honestly, the Left won’t rest until our Armed Forces are in tatters. In 20 years (or less), you’ll see sexual and/or political commisars (a new career field). Those who join to patriotically serve will be persecuted for the first sign of religious or non-PC leanings and sent to “Tolerance” camp.
Military chaplains told to shy from Jesus
Mr. Baugham said the 350 chaplains he oversees are concerned about a new set of guidelines issued in August after complaints about Christian evangelism at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. The Air Force guidelines allow “a brief, nonsectarian prayer” during military ceremonies “to add a heightened sense of seriousness or solemnity, not to advance specific religious beliefs.”
“So, to what deity do you address your prayer to?” Mr. Baugham asked. “No one knows. And who gets to write the prayers? Once the government becomes the approving authority, the poor chaplain is forced to be an agent of the state.”
Mr. Baugham said he had “just got a call from an Army chaplain in Iraq who says he’d be hammered if he used Jesus’ name. Chaplains are scared to death. They must clear their prayers with their commanders, they can mention Jesus’ name at chapel services, but not outside that context.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/dec/21/20051221-121224-6972r/?page=2