Poor, psychotic two-bit hack Stephen Baldwin. I hope his brothers get together and have him deprogrammed soon:
Baldwin became a right-wing, born-again Christian after the 9/11 attacks, and now is the star of Operation Straight Up (OSU), an evangelical entertainment troupe that actively proselytizes among active-duty members of the US military. As an official arm of the Defense Department’s America Supports You program, OSU plans to mail copies of the controversial apocalyptic video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces to soldiers serving in Iraq. OSU is also scheduled to embark on a “Military Crusade in Iraq” in the near future.
“We feel the forces of heaven have encouraged us to perform multiple crusades that will sweep through this war torn region,” OSU declares on its website about its planned trip to Iraq. “We’ll hold the only religious crusade of its size in the dangerous land of Iraq.”
Here’s what Mikey Weinstein had to say about the American Taliban further infiltrating the American military:
“The constitution has been assaulted and brutalized,” Mikey Weinstein, former Reagan Administration White House counsel, ex-Air Force judge advocate (JAG), and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told me. “Thanks to the influence of extreme Christian fundamentalism, the wall separating church and state is nothing but smoke and debris. And OSU is the IED that exploded the wall separating church and state in the Pentagon and throughout our military.” Weinstein continued: “The fact that they would even consider taking their crusade to a Muslim country shows the threat to our national security and to the constitution and everyone that loves it.”
Christian Fundamentalists are going to have to be dealt with very, very soon or we’re going to find America turned into a “Christian” version of Afghanistan.
UPDATE: Look what I found on Think Progress… Aspiring cleric Bill Sali (R-ID) making an ass of himself.
UPDATE II, 8/16/07, 12:58 PM: Via William K. Wolfram comes the news that the American Talibaners won’t be sending their sick little video game to our troops.
