When you can't exercise your privilege it feels like persecution

It's probably not treasonous to discourage people from serving in the military, but it's certainly unusual for a conservative Republican to urge such a thing. But apparently Mike Huckabee's convinced that Barack Obama is so hostile toward Christians in the military that he's recommending parents hold off on letting their good Christian kids enlist until after he's out office and "we get a new commander-in-chief that will once again believe ‘one nation under God.’"

Given that the US military has usually been (and in various spots still is) remarkably and overtly pro-Christian, the efforts of the Defense Department to rein in officers and chaplains who use their positions of authority to proselytize, to make Christianity the norm, or to preach or counsel against those who are legally in the service seem only proper.

The assumption that all the servicefolk in the military are Christians, let alone evangelical right-thinking right-practicing True Christians, is demonstrably false; assuming that it is (still) okay to treat them that way and make it clear that if you don't play along you're probably not welcome in the military is the real scandal here, not some chaplains being told that legally they have to minister to all soldiers equally.

That Huckabee is taking seriously an article in the Washington Times (which sits somewhere between Fox News and WorldNetDaily in terms of its attitudes and grip on reality) only tells me how un-seriously I should be taking Huckabee.

Huckabee: Wait To Join Military Until Obama’s Out Of Office
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee claimed in an interview with Iowa talk radio host Jan Mickelson yesterday that the Obama administration has “an open hostility toward the Christian faith,&rdqu

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