religious discrimination in the military

Lawsuit Seeks Stop to Chaplains' Faith-Sharing in Air Force

Report Says the Military Branch May Accommodate Plaintiff's Wishes

(AgapePress) - If a Jewish man in New Mexico has his way, Christian chaplains in the U.S. Air Force could be prohibited from evangelizing among the ranks. And apparently the Air Force is willing to consider the man's suggestion.
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Hours after filing his lawsuit, Weinstein told an audience on the campus of the University of New Mexico that his sons, one of whom has already graduated from the Academy, were "constantly accused of being utterly complicit" in Christ's execution and "told that all of their forebears were burning eternally in hell."

According to AP, Weinstein claims to have no specific problem with religions per se -- "even evangelical Christianity" -- but that "whenever a religion -- in this case a group of people -- tries to engage the machinery of the state, it is constitutionally repugnant and violative." Weinstein's lawsuit names the Air Force and acting Air Force Secretary Pete Geren as defendants, and asks the Air Force to prohibit its members, including chaplains, from trying to "involuntarily convert, pressure, exhort, or persuade a fellow member of the USAF to accept their own religious beliefs while on duty."
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Tom Minnery of Focus on the Family, which is located near the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, has some advice for Weinstein. He tells the Post that even though the Academy graduate may not like it, "... it is the job of an evangelical Christian chaplain to evangelize. It's protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of free exercise of religion."

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It seems that stories like these keep popping up.

Apparently it is ok to tell someone that they are going to burn in hell, but not ok to ask that you not be harrassed by these lunatics! I did not realize that you had to be an evangelical wacko to be in the military!