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Are U.S. troops being
force-fed Christianity?

A watchdog group alleges that improper
evangelizing is occurring within the ranks.


By Jane Lampman | Staff writer of
The Christian Science Monitor

From the October 4, 2007 edition

At Speicher base in Iraq, US Army Spec. Jeremy Hall got permission from a chaplain in August to post fliers announcing a meeting for atheists and other nonbelievers. When the group gathered, Specialist Hall alleges, his Army major supervisor disrupted the meeting and threatened to retaliate against him, including blocking his reenlistment in the Army.

Months earlier, Hall charges, he had been publicly berated by a staff sergeant for not agreeing to join in a Thanksgiving Day prayer.

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