Ethics

The Latest on MRFF

By Ed Brayton

I had an interesting conversation with a former Navy chaplain who was seated at the same table with Richard Dawkins, Rob Pennock, Carl Bajema and me on Sunday. We spoke about the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and their work to combat religious coercion and proselytization in the military. She agreed that there are a lot of chaplains like Klingenschmitt who do not understand that their job is to support the emotional needs of soldiers, not to exploit those needs to woo them into their religion.

The New York Times had an article about MRFF on Sunday that looked at a lot of related issues. I like this statement from the plaintiff in MRFF's lawsuit against the Pentagon:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 07, 2009 (boomark / email).