Summary
Mikey Weinstein has spent the past four years fighting a war against Christian proselytizing through the chain of command in the military. Angie Tracey founded the first officially recognized Christian federal employee association in the nation. Though they are separated by 1,900 miles, religious traditions, and civil and military backgrounds, Weinstein and Tracey personify the poles in a debate about the role religious faith plays when a person picks up a weapon or sits down at a computer in service of the US government. Former president Bill Clinton issued guidelines granting greater freedom of religious expression to civilian federal employees, which, among other things, allowed them to become part of workplace ministries. Clinton's guidelines set up balancing tests that sought to ensure that no agency would fall into endorsing any faith tradition and no one's right to be free from religion would be abrogated. But the movement of faith into the federal workplace raises questions no regulations can answer.
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The Good Fight
At the beginning of our first phone conversation, Mikey Weinstein asks me if I'm Jewish. At the end of our first e-mail exchange, Angie Tracey tells me to have a blessed evening. Weinstein has spent the past four years fighting what he calls a war against Christian proselytizing through the chain of command in the military; Tracey founded the first officially recognized Christian federal employee association in the nation.
Though they are separated by 1,900 miles, religious traditions, and civil and military backgrounds, Weinstein and Tracey personify the poles in a debate about the role religious faith plays when a person picks up a weapon or sits down at a computer in...See the full content of this document
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