From Todd Starnes, Fox Radio News:
Religious liberty groups have grave concerns after they learned the Pentagon is vetting its guide on religious tolerance with a group that compared Christian evangelism to “rape” and advocated that military personnel who proselytize should be court martialed.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is calling on the Air Force to enforce a regulation that they believe calls for the court martial of any service member caught proselytizing.
President Mikey Weinstein and others from his organization met privately with Pentagon officials on April 23. He said U.S. troops who proselytize are guilty of sedition and treason and should be punished – by the hundreds if necessary – to stave off what he called a “tidal wave of fundamentalists.”
“Someone needs to be punished for this,” Weinstein told Fox News. “Until the Air Force or Army or Navy or Marine Corps punishes a member of the military for unconstitutional religious proselytizing and oppression, we will never have the ability to stop this horrible, horrendous, dehumanizing behavior.”
“Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense, LCDR Nate Christensen said in a written statement. He declined to say if any chaplains or service members had been prosecuted for such an offense.
The Department of Defense is chartered, and not part of our government, and has no authority over the military. See below
[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 21 (Tuesday, February 2, 2010)]
[Contents]
[Pages I-VII]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [http://www.gpo.gov/]
Defense Department
See Navy Department
NOTICES
*Charter Modification:
Federal Advisory Committee; Advisory Panel on Department of Defense
Capabilities for Support of Civil Authorities After Certain
Incidents, 5287
Charter Renewal:
Federal Advisory Committee; Western Hemisphere Institute for
Security Cooperation Board of Visitors, 5287-5288
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The real entity is the Commodity Credit Corporation, for a full expose see G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature from Jekyll Island
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION *CHARTER
CHANGE OF NAME
National Military Establishment changed to * Department of Defense by act Aug. 10, 1949.
CODIFICATION
The Department of War was designated the Department of the Army and the title of the Secretary of War was changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3011 to 3013 continued the military Department of the Army under the administrative supervision of a Secretary of the Army.