The Huffington Post:
Last year, when I invited the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), Mikey Weinstein, to the campus of the College of William and Mary to speak about pernicious and dangerous religious influence in the U.S. Armed Forces, I received several queries afterwards — particularly from active duty military types — as to whether or not I really thought the problem were serious. The implied argument was, “I haven’t experienced it.”
They would have to be blind not to have experienced it now.
In last weekend’s football game featuring the U.S. Air Force Academy’s team and the University of New Mexico’s team, 57 of the 60 Academy football team members knelt and prayed — ostentatiously, publicly — in the end zone prior to the game. They did not, as Christ’s disciple Matthew advises, put themselves in a closet; they prayed in front of the world.