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Army’s Attacks on Religious Liberty Are Detrimental to the Warrior Ethos

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19.09.2024

In July, an X post captured a training slide from U.S. Army base Fort Liberty’s extremism training that declared pro-life organizations terrorist groups. The slide further labels constitutionally protected activities as identifiers of these “terrorist groups”, such as: being pro-life, opposing Roe v. Wade, having a “Choose Life” license plate, and performing pro-life advocacy or counseling.

This week, members of the House Armed Services Committee have the opportunity to question the military’s top brass about these heinous characterizations, and address the flagrant lack of political neutrality in our military so it can be immediately rectified.

Once again, the Army was caught exercising clear viewpoint discrimination in their training slides—offering that some views and religious exercise are worthy of punishment. This is unsurprising, considering the Army’s prior identification, under the Obama Administration, of “evangelical Christianity,” “Catholicism,” and “Mormonism” as forms of “religious extremism” on a list with Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and the Klu Klux Klan.

This time, after significant backlash, including a letter from members of Congress led by Senator Ted Budd (R-NC) and Representative Richard Hudson........

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