Ninjanurse comments:

Remember Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, and his voluntary prayer meetings before work? Anyone who wanted could attend, and those who didn’t could be revealed for the godless infidels or dabblers in heretical creeds that they were. It must have made it easier to decide who got promoted.

Bingo, Ninjanurse! Yahoo News reports on a watchdog group’s concerns about the military using religious affiliation as criteria for promotion:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A watchdog group that promotes religious freedom in the U.S. military accused senior officers on Monday using their rank and influence to coerce soldiers and airmen into adopting evangelical Christianity.

Such proselytizing, according to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, has created a core of “radical” Christians within the U.S. armed forces and Pentagon who punish those who do not accept evangelical beliefs by stalling their careers.

“It’s egregious beyond the pale,” said Mikey Weinstein, president and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. “We apparently have a radicalized, evangelical Christian Pentagon within the rest of the Pentagon.”

And here, for your viewing pleasure (and outrage) is a video by “Christian Embassy,” the group whom the watchdog group says produced the military video. You can certainly see how seamlessly them blend uniforms with proseltyzing: