Congratulations to the Anti-Defamation League, which is now taking its noble mission against anti-Semitism to new heights — of arrant absurdity. Its target: the U.S. Navy, which had the gall to agree to help with a rally to be held by Promise Keepers. That’s the organization whose purpose is to help men take responsibility for their wives and children by, in part, honoring “Jesus Christ through worship prayer, and obedience to God’s word.”
The ADL wrote a letter to Navy Secretary John Dalton expressing concern about “constitutional issues” raised by a “branch of the Armed Forces’ involvement with an explicitly Christian men’s movement.” Dalton, of course, immediately backed off and the Navy issued a statement reassuring all concerned that there would be no “Navy speakers, no uniforms,” and no encouragement given to the event.
Thank God those Navy men are being protected from the pernicious doctrines of self-restraint, fidelity, and chivalry. And the rest of us from a dangerously Christian military. Does the ADL have nothing better to do?
