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Contents 1 Current Discussion Topics 2 Discussion of Pentagon Promo Video & Media Concerns of Evangelical Influence in Washington D.C. 2.1 Original Section: Controversy 2.2 Proposed Section: Controversy 2.3 Discussion of Controversy Section Here

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[edit] Discussion of Pentagon Promo Video & Media Concerns of Evangelical Influence in Washington D.C.

I moved the "controversy" section of the Christian Embassy article to the talk page for editing. It does not represent a neutral point of view, contains many weasel words and none of it sourced even though there are plenty of articles about it online. Please help us clean up this section for re-inclusion in the article. --Sixtrojans 23:16, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Original Section: Controversy

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Since a central tenet of evangelical Christianity is a vigorous effort to convert non-evangelicals, critics of the Christian Embassy charge^{[citation needed]} that its mission statement describes an effort to abet public servants in proseletyzing in the workplace. The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States probits the "establishment of religion" by the Federal government. The judgments of US courts have interpreted the First Amendment to mean that the use of government resources for the purpose of advancing a religion violates a founding principle of our society.^{[citation needed]}

The efforts implied by the Christian Embassy's mission statement would use public office (and therefore public funds and public personnel) in the service of religious advancement. Because of this, critics see Christian Embassy's efforts to be in violation of the First Amendment.^{[citation needed]}

CNN recently broke a story about a highly controversial Christian Embassy promotional video. The video depicted government personnel creating promotional materials for the religious organization while in uniform. Some of the video was actually filmed in the Pentagon.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Proposed Section: Controversy

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Since a central tenet of evangelical Christianity is a vigorous effort to convert non-evangelicals, critics of the Christian Embassy charge^{[citation needed]} that its mission statement describes an effort to abet public servants in proseletyzing in the workplace. The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States probits the "establishment of religion" by the Federal government. The judgments of US courts have interpreted the First Amendment to mean that the use of government resources for the purpose of advancing a religion violates a founding principle of our society.^{[citation needed]}

The efforts implied by the Christian Embassy's mission statement would use public office (and therefore public funds and public personnel) in the service of religious advancement. Because of this, critics see Christian Embassy's efforts to be in violation of the First Amendment.^{[citation needed]}

CNN recently broke a story about a highly controversial Christian Embassy promotional video. The video depicted government personnel creating promotional materials for the religious organization while in uniform. Some of the video was actually filmed in the Pentagon.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Discussion of Controversy Section Here

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My fault. I had the references lined up, got called onto something else and forgot to finish this. I won't be free to do this for a few weeks, but if anyone else wants to follow up, here are the sources I used (beside their site):

WP article on the Pentagon controversy: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121000883.html

Harper's article, discusses fundamentalism, evangelicalism and their affect on government, military - notes the video near the end: http://www.harpers.org/ThroughAGlassDarkly-12838838.html

More detailed information on Christian Embassy: http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timely_002761.php