DoD Yanks Consent for Military Seals on Bibles

This is not something they are given or forced to have. This is something they purchase or not. Much like anything else, who gave anyone the right to stop something from being sold to people wanting to buy it with their own money? Do they stop selling anything else? Will diabetics now have the right to demand products with sugar are no longer sold? How about recovering alcoholics demanding all alcohol be removed so they won't have to see it? Where does this end?

DoD Yanks Consent for Military Seals on Bibles
Jun 14, 2012
Military.com
by Bryant Jordan

Homan also produces Bibles for police, firefighters, sportsmen and students, each tailored to its particular audience.

Bowing to a complaint from a religious watchdog group, the Pentagon will no longer give consent for a publisher to use the official emblems of the military services on a line of Bibles sold on base exchanges.

The group claimed victory, but an association of former military chaplains is demanding that Congress overturn the Defense Department’s decision.

The Bibles, branded for each of four services as “The Soldier’s Bible,” “The Sailor’s Bible” and so on, are published by LifeWay Christian Resources’ Holman Bible Publishers, a subsidiary of the Southern Baptist Bible Convention, said Chris Rodda, the senior research director for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

Rodda, writing on the website Alternet.org, said MRFF has received nearly 2,000 complaints about the Bibles from servicemembers who have seen them displayed and sold in base exchanges. Holman has been publishing its service-specific Bibles at least since 2003, when the Army granted permission to use the U.S. Army seal on the Bible covers.
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Forcing religious beliefs on anyone is wrong but so is taking away rights of people to worship as they see fit.