Wanted: ROTC Military Science Professor (No Non-Christians Need Apply)
Yes, the U.S. Army apparently allows Wheaton College to custom order Christian officers to teach in its ROTC program, not just by secretly excluding non-Christian officers from assignments at this school, but by very openly and unabashedly specifying Christian faith as a requirement on the official list of available assignments. What part of the Constitution’s “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States” does the Army not understand?
An ROTC unit is a U.S. military unit. The job of an ROTC instructor, whether at a secular school or a religious school, does not and cannot involve religious instruction, so why would the religious beliefs of its ROTC faculty matter to Wheaton College? Well, the answer to that question quickly became obvious when MRFF took a look at Wheaton’s ROTC program.
Wheaton’s Rolling Thunder Battalion, which is comprised of cadets from Wheaton and six other private colleges and universities, all of which are overtly Christian or historically Christian, makes no secret of how much it thoroughly — and thoroughly unconstitutionally — integrates Christian education and evangelism into its ROTC military training.
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