West Point Cadet may have to pay back Army

If you are a Christian, don't pass this off as a slam against Christians. Had our rights to decide what faith, denomination and doctrine we wanted to follow not been protected we'd all be forced to worship as someone else saw fit. We have to protect the rights of all people to decide how they want to worship or not at all. Forcing anyone or trying to get them to covert by force is wrong.

Blake Page, Cadet Who Quit West Point Over Religious Objections, May Have To Pay Back Army
Huffington Post
Chelsea Kiene
Posted: 02/15/2013

WASHINGTON -- A former West Point cadet who resigned from the military academy in November over what he says was unconstitutional Christian proselytizing may now owe the institution hundreds of thousands of dollars in a turn of events that have left the 24-year-old “shocked.”

Blake Page, who served in the Army prior to attending West Point, submitted an official letter of resignation from the academy on Nov. 6. In an op-ed in The Huffington Post, Page explained that he no longer desired to be part of a group of “silent bystanders” witnessing what he called “egregious violations” of the Constitution.

“The tipping point of my decision to resign was the realization that countless officers here and throughout the military are guilty of blatantly violating the oaths they swore to defend the Constitution,” Page wrote. “These men and women are criminals, complicit in light of day defiance of the Uniform Code of Military Justice through unconstitutional proselytism, discrimination against the non-religious and establishing formal policies to reward, encourage and even at times require sectarian religious participation.”
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