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Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin
But Trijicon isn't part of the US Army or American government, is it? To me it seems that whether they stamp bible verses onto their products or not is their choice. I could be wrong, though.
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Maybe, but the army, as a body of the state and no private entity, should have refused to accept the items delivered in that state. As I said, they should sue the cokpany for compensation, contract violation, and replacement of the delivered units. It is clearly a missionary agenda being driven by a private enterprise/person into the state's business. It's the same like with changes for the pro-Creationistic curriculum for a public school, Islamic headscarfs and burkhas, the massive pressure in the air force to christianise it's members, etc.
The first amendement makes it very clear what freedom the state has to service religions and sects of it's choice:
none. Else you end up like we in Germany: having secularism on paper and in the Basic Law, but in reality the state is conspirating with the church to collect and enforce obligatory church taxes from church members. That this is done on the basis of a state-given law, is a violation of the secular principle. The state should not have any business in this and the chrcuh should ask it's members all by itself to finance it - the chruch is not part of the legislation or a law-making authority. the German practice is illegal.