Take them to court. From the The Christian Science Monitor covering the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and its primary cause — shining light on and stopping Dominionist Christian proselytization in the armed forces:

At Speicher base in Iraq, US Army Spec. Jeremy Hall got permission from a chaplain in August to post fliers announcing a meeting for atheists and other nonbelievers. When the group gathered, Specialist Hall alleges, his Army major supervisor disrupted the meeting and threatened to retaliate against him, including blocking his reenlistment in the Army.

Months earlier, Hall charges, he had been publicly berated by a staff sergeant for not agreeing to join in a Thanksgiving Day prayer.

On Sept. 17, the soldier and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) filed suit against Army Maj. Freddy Welborn and US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, charging violations of Hall’s constitutional rights, including being forced to submit to a religious test to qualify as a soldier.

Read more at CSM.

Dan Rather covers the same subject on his hd.net show. Click here to see the show at hd.net.

Click here to see nonbelieving soldier Jeremy Hall’s court filing.

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