More Evangelical News

So, the NAE (National Association of Evangelicals) won't take a stand on global warming (thus creating a splinter group--see previous post), but they will take a positive stand on proselytizing within the ranks of the US armed forces. From The Revealer:

... the NAE is directing its salvation energies closer to home: today filing court documents to officially join the defense of the Air Force, on behalf of its beleaguered evangelical chaplains. The Air Force, which is being sued by Jewish Academy graduate Mikey Weinstein over religious intolerance directed at his son and other non-evangelical cadets, won't comment on the intervention, but Kyle Fisk, an NAE spokesman, said he believed his group is "'doing the Air Force a service.'" The plaintiff, Weinstein, agrees, but to different effect, telling The Colorado Springs Gazette, "'I am thunder-struck that a branch of government would collaborate with fundamentalist Christians to convert members of the armed forces to evangelical Christianity.'
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While legal observers wonder whether the Air Force, which is trying to dispose of the case quietly, isn't resisting such unrequested "help," the NAE argues that, as representatives of the religion of the chaplains whose behavior is at question in the case, they have "'a right to be heard'" in court.