Military perplexed: Trump says soldiers couldn't get religious items

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By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent
Updated 9:58 PM ET, Thu May 4, 2017

... "People were forbidden from giving or receiving religious items at a military hospital where our brave service members were being treated, and when they wanted those religious items," Trump said at the signing ceremony. "These were great, great people. These are great soldiers. They wanted those items. They were precluded from getting them."

It was a comment that raised eyebrows at the Pentagon ...

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for clarification ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/04/politics/pentagon-trump-religious-liberty-executive-order/index.html

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1. True, in a way, according to the link ...

Evangelicals can't barge into patients' rooms uninvited and foist religious idols, icons, and ideas onto the patients.

I'm sure some of Trump's advisers would like to change this.

[JHB]

2. Ahhh, yes, typical RW religious snowflakehood...

Anything that limits their ability to run roughshod over anyone else is spun as an example of how they are being "oppressed".

Hospital front desk:"No, reverend, you can't come in. Last time you were here you left anti-Catholic Jack Chick tracts in the rooms of every patient with an Irish, Italian, Polish, or Spanish surname. And here you are today with ANOTHER stack of them. Just, no."

Reverend: "Come see the oppression inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!"

Although, admittedly, that type is unlikely to quote Python. They never forgave them for Life of Brian.

[WePurrsevere]

3. That's it, keep ticking off the military with your Trumped up bs.

The phoney fundie 'christian' martyr syndrome still runs rampant I see.

If the ACLU essentially says that Trumps 'Religious Liberty' EO is a bs photo-op, than it is. If there was truly a 1st Amendment problem they would have stepped in and pushed to have it changed because that's what they do.
https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-statement-so-called-religious-freedom-executive-order