Complaints force Army to remove unauthorized ‘On a mission for God’ poster from recruiters office

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/army-orders-recruiters-to-remove-unauthorized-on-a-mission-for-both-god-and-country-poster/



Complaints force Army to remove unauthorized ‘On a mission for God’ poster from recruiters office
Tom Boggioni
17 Jan 2015 at 18:30 ET

An unauthorized poster with the phrase “On a mission for both God and country” on display outside of a Phoenix Army recruiting center was removed Friday morning following complaints, reports The Army Times.

The poster — which had been in use for months — came to the attention to Army commanders following an uproar begun by a post by Mikey Weinstein, president and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, on the Daily Kos website.

In his post, Weinstein wrote, “WE at MRFF were hardly prepared for the stunning, unconstitutional disgrace we confirmed from client reports as recently as yesterday.”

“There it was; an in-your-face, proselytizing, U.S. Army officially-approved (goarmy.com) recruiting poster on prominent display at an Armed Forces Career Center in Phoenix, Arizona,” he continued. “That outrageously ghastly graphic encapsulates precisely that which we’ve been ceaselessly calling the attention of the American people to for all this time.”

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1. Good,glad that poster was yanked.

As a recently retired, 37 years of service, I am glad to see that poster yanked. Recruiting is hard work, but no need to be hard and stupid at the same time. Sell our product without religion. Young people will join, I did, not for the money but out of patriotism, wanted to travel, wanted GI Bill for college etc….But not for religion. Glad that poster got yanked!