God Help Them

I think we're in serious trouble at MoJ when we are told we can 'read all about' something at Breitbart, of all places.  What next - Ann Coulter as news source?  Rush Libaugh?  'God help us' indeed.  For readers of MoJ who find ill-tempered hysterics over a putative 'widening assault' by '[our] own government' upon 'Christians and Christianity' an unfortunate intrusion into the more measured discussion that used to predominate at this site, I recommend reading beyond Breitbart on the matter to which Patrick refers.  A good start is with Ms. Quinn's column to which Breitbart condemningly links, which provides sufficient background to make plain that the military has good reason to consult many people, including this 'Mikey' fellow who so upsets Breitbart and Patrick, on how best to address divisive prosyletizing behavior on the part of self-appointed 'crusaders' in its religiously diverse ranks.  There one will find indications both (a) that 'Mikey,' though rhetorically adolescent, is exercised by a problem that appears to be real, and (b) that those who have thus exercised him are not 'Christians' qua Christians, but sundry ersatz and triumphalist 'Christians' of the Fred Phelps variety, whom 'Mikey' distinguishes from Christians generically considered.  Any serious effort to quarantine ugliness such as that will be effort well spent.