Blog from the Capital

Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robyn Blumner has an editorial in today's paper on the Military Religious Freedom Foundation lawsuit on behalf of Jeremy Hall.

There is something deeply amiss when we send soldiers on a mission to engender peaceful coexistence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, yet our military doesn't seem able to offer religious tolerance to its own.
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Beyond the mincemeat being made of church-state separation and religious liberty, it seems particularly combustible for our armed forces to be combining ''end-times'' Christian theology with military might. That's no way to placate Muslim populations around the world.

But there's no will for change. The military's virulent religious intolerance could be eradicated tomorrow with swift sanctions against transgressors. Instead, it's winked at, and those caught proselytizing suffer no consequence.

It appears that brave men like Hall who simply wish to follow the dictates of their own conscience will be needing bodyguards for a long time to come.