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<div>Next they might order all prayers, public or private, to be in English only.</div><div>Ralph</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">This is shameful, but hardly surprising.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Given the enormous swing to the religious right in the US, the military will be heavily inhabited by those who espouse Fundamentalist views. The military has long been using training videos which are odious in their portrayal of non-Christians as the "enemy"; forced prayer is not uncommon, and Muslims, Atheists, Wiccans, and Buddhists have all been targeted in some units for being "un-American". Don't Ask Don't Tell may be repealed someday, but the beat goes on. Some group must be the "outsiders", and the military always uses this in order to utilize it as the(outdated) means of gaining loyalty in the ranks.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">When a nation which was founded to counter enforced religion then begins to enforce religion through its military, we have a serious problem. Of course, this is likely to go unaddressed as the Glen Becks, Sarah Palins, and Rush Limbaughs continue unchallenged to spew their vilification of anyone who is not white, born again, and wealthy. Unless the "left" gets off their collective duffs and begins to fight back, this country is on its merry way to becoming a theocracy..........</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Debi R-S</font></div></div></body></html>