The NCO who reported it wrote that the commander “had a big grin on his face when he said all of this.”
More than 200 complaints were filed with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation from service members across more than 40 units at no fewer than 30 military installations, spanning every branch of the military.
The MRFF is keeping all complainants anonymous to shield them from retribution by the Defense Department.
Its founder, Michael Weinstein, a veteran of the Air Force and Reagan White House, made it clear that this “is not just one rogue commander.”
He’s right.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has initiated monthly prayer services throughout the Pentagon and sponsors a weekly White House Bible study. He entered office with “deus vult,” a crusader motto, tattooed on his body, which he describes as a symbol of a “modern-day American Christian crusade.”
He recently invited Douglas Wilson, a self-described Christian Nationalist who preaches that the United States should be governed as a Christian theocracy, to deliver a sermon in the Pentagon’s auditorium.
This is the culture being built at the top of our military. We talked more about this on our podcast today.
People of faith should not be quiet about this, and the people making these decisions should not feel safe in their elected seats.
Vote Common Good is organizing faith communities to name Christian Nationalism for what it is, to push back against it at the ballot box, and to stand with voters who refuse to hand their faith over to MAGA politics.
