[lbo-talk] Charges in Religious Lawsuit Against Army Detailed

[Shane Mage]

>Charges in Religious Lawsuit Against Army Detailed
>
Major Freddy J. Welborn was identified in a federal lawsuit filed 
last week by Army Spc. Jeremy Hall, 22, and the Military Religious 
Freedom Foundation..
>..when Hall received permission by an Army chaplain to organize a 
>meeting of other soldiers whoshared his atheist beliefs, his 
>supervisor, Army Major Welborn, broke up thegathering and threatened 
>to retaliate against the soldier by charging him with violating the 
>Uniform Code of Military Justice...Last month, the Pentagon's 
>inspector general (IG) excoriated high-ranking military officials 
>Air Force Maj. Gen. Jack Catton, Army Brig. Gen. Bob Caslen, Brig. 
>Gen. Vincent Brooks, Maj. Gen. Peter Sutton, and a colonel and 
>lieutenant colonel whose names were redacted... for engaging in 
>evangelism while on duty and in uniform...

But as Stanley Fish (whose literary ambition seems to be to "shine and
stink like a dead mackeral in the moonlight) would surely point out, these
Officers and Gentlemen were merely "taking their religion seriously" and
those liberal creeps should leave them the hell alone.