military

"What is going on in the U.S. military right now, in effect, is people with religious Geiger counters holding them up to you, trying to determine if you are 'unchurched' enough for them to evangelize you. . . .Our constitutional framers were so careful to keep religion out of the function of the state that they put it in Clause 3, Article 6. . . .They said that we would never have a test for religion for any position in the federal government. Right now, we have overwhelming evidence that tests for religion are happening all the time." —Michael L. Weinstein, author of With God on Our Side: One Man’s War Against an Evangelical Coup in America’s Military

Two years ago, one of my students wrote a master's thesis defending just war.Then he joined the U.S. Air Force. I suppose you could look at it as a pedagogical success: I helped him turn the corner from theory to practice. But as a pacifist, I took it pretty hard.