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On the Right Sideby George V. Caylor"As Easy as ABC "The world, including America, will listen to anything, promote anything, and endure anything – no matter how ludicrous, harmful or perverted. Anything but Christianity, that is. The rules are as easy as ABC: Anything BUT Christianity.This was brought home to me once again last week. Our house guest Michele Malkin of the Washington Post wrote: "Six months ago, Jack Moody tried to send his son, Daniel, a care package containing a Bible study and other Christian religious materials. Daniel is a 21-year-old Army National Guardsman serving in the Middle East....

<p>There's something terribly wrong when an American soldier overseas can't receive Scriptures in the mail, but a Muslim chaplain can preach freely among al Qaeda and Taliban enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay.</p> <p>This is a story of two soldiers, one Christian, one Muslim. It's a cautionary tale that suggests how religious double standards and politically driven hypersensitivity threaten not only our troops, but us all.</p>

There's something terribly wrong when an American soldier overseas can't receive Scriptures in the mail, but a Muslim chaplain can preach freely among al Qaeda and Taliban enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay. This is a story of two soldiers, one Christian, one Muslim. It's a cautionary tale that suggests how religious double standards and politically driven hypersensitivity threaten not only our troops, but us all.Six months ago, Jack Moody tried to send his son, Daniel, a care package containing a Bible study and other Christian religious materials. Daniel is a 21-year-old Army National Guardsman serving in the Middle East. He...

Official: Bibles Can Be Sent to Troops .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Bibles and other religious materials can be sent by family members to servicemen and women serving in the Middle East, a top postal official stressed Thursday. Postal Vice President Azeezaly Jaffer's comments came after a report that a North Carolina man was told by a postal clerk that he could not send a book of Bible verses to his son, serving in Kuwait, because of regulations against sending non-Islamic materials to Middle Eastern countries. ``The regulation is intended for mass mailings, but there is nothing precluding...

U.S. Bans Mailing of Bible Verses to Overseas Soldiers Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 04/10/2003 Don't mail Christian materials to soldiers, says U.S. The post office in Lenoir, North Carolina, told Jack Moody that he couldn't mail Christian comic books and a book of Bible verses to his son, who is stationed as an Army National Guardsman in the Middle East. U.S. rules prohibit mailing "any matter containing religious materials contrary to Islamic faith," a postal clerk explained. This morning, the Rutherford Institute, a civil and religious liberties organization, is suing the U.S. Postmaster General over the rule. "At...

(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. Postal Service overstepped its bounds when it told a North Carolina customer he couldn't mail Christian literature to his son, who is serving as an Army National Guardsman in the Persian Gulf, a legal watchdog group said. Postal regulations that prohibit the mailing of "religious materials contrary to the Islamic faith" to Persian Gulf countries are unconstitutional, said John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, a public interest law firm based in Charlottesville, Va. "What you have here is a soldier who is fighting in Operation Iraqi Freedom for the very freedoms that we have in...