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Religious red herring
Religious red herring
Jul 2, 2025 11:01 PM

Visit Fox News for this exchange between John Gibson and Richard Thompson, president of the Thomas More Law Center, about charges of religious intolerance in the military.

Here’s a key part of the discussion:

GIBSON: But, Mr. Thompson, I know you’re in this business, so you would be hypervigilant about this. And we all know how this cadet structure is. The seniors have enormous power over lower cadets.

Do we have a situation where senior cadets who are Christians are saying, “I don’t care if you’re a Zoroastrian; I don’t care if you’re a Wiccan; I don’t care if you’re a Muslim; I don’t care if you’re Jewish; Say these prayers”?

THOMPSON: No. That is not true.

First of all, we are not talking about students in kindergarten or high school students. We’re talking about military personnel. They certainly don’t have to say a prayer even if there is a prayer, let’s say, before meals. They can stand quietly. They don’t have to engage in prayer at all. I think it’s really, again, a red herring that is really being drawn into the public arena because of the agenda of Americans United For Separation of Church and State.

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