Monday, November 05, 2007

It doesn't fit their vision

Of what our 'Onward Christian Soldiers' should be doing when not fighting the holy Rapture war to the death.

Steve Benen of Crooks and Liars:
Don Wildmon and the American Family Association have a new obsession: U.S. troops’ access to adult materials.
Ten years after Congress banned sales of sexually explicit material on military bases, the Pentagon is under fire for continuing to sell adult fare, such as Penthouse and Playmates In Bed, that it doesn’t consider explicit enough to pull from its stores.

Dozens of religious and anti-pornography groups have complained to Congress and Defense Secretary Robert Gates that a Pentagon board set up to review magazines and films is allowing sales of material that Congress intended to ban.

“They’re saying ‘we’re not selling stuff that’s sexually explicit’ … and we say it’s pornography,” says Donald Wildmon, head of the American Family Association, a Christian anti-pornography group. A letter-writing campaign launched Friday by opponents of the policy aims to convince Congress to “get the Pentagon to obey the law,” he adds.
It's so hard to have your end of the world fantasies destroyed by the soldiers who are supposed to be fighting for the glory of God actually not giving a damn about this being the war of biblical proportions, the war predicted in Revelations. The Bible didn't mention soldiers getting to read Playboy...
Has anyone told these fanatics that soldiers are often ... *gasp* Democrats, too? Maybe gay? Divorced? Unwillingly there? Human? And not at all interested in dying for a holy war?

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