It began with this fairly unremarkable news:
Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated
Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid
concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense
Department spokesman said Tuesday. The unsolicited Bibles sent by a church in the United States were
confiscated about a year ago at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan because
military rules forbid troops of any religion from proselytizing while
deployed there.
Then Bob Livingston, former Louisiana Representative and Republican family man cum serial adulterer, saw the perfect opportunity to make religious hay out of the situation. Here's an action alert Livingston sent out by e-mail:
The Obama Administration's military spokesman just acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned Bibles of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan [emphasis mine]. When Al-Jazeera television showed a VIDEO of our troops with Christian Bibles, Muslim extremists and American atheists complained. In response, U.S. military spokesman Maj. Jennifer Willis told Reuters reporters, "I can now confirm that the Bibles shown on Al Jazeera's clip were, in fact, collected by the chaplains and later destroyed."
Her careful words "later" and "now" indicate the Bibles were destroyed this month, not last year, because of the recently publicized video. Why is the Obama Administration now forcing atheistic silence on our troops, in violation of their private rights?
Her careful words "later" and "now" indicate the Bibles were destroyed this month, not last year, because of the recently publicized video. Why is the Obama Administration now forcing atheistic silence on our troops, in violation of their private rights?
Pedantic P.S.: "Sign petition and WE WILL FAX all 435 members of Congress," Livingston urges. Maybe he could also pass the hat around for fourth-grade tuition and learn a few basics about the U.S. government. Between the House and the Senate, Congress has 535 members.
I suggest you do a little more research and check your facts before you waste your time writing an article.
This Bob Livingston
http://www.personalliberty.com/about-bob-livingston/
is not the same as this Bob Livingston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston
Your lack of research and reporting on this topic gives bloggers a bad name.
Posted by: CHM | Monday, June 01, 2009 at 01:07 AM
Corrected. Thanks.
I wonder which Bob Livingston is more embarrassed to have the other Bob Livingston as his namesake.
Posted by: Rogier | Monday, June 01, 2009 at 02:27 AM