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From Atheist Viagra:

JEN: Then the stories started coming out

DARYL: Atheists working in schools.

ABE: Atheists working in day cares.

JEN: Didn't want to believe it. Didn't want to believe that someone I saw every day could be capable of that.

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JEN: I mean, it wasn't their constitutional right to work in child care.

ABE: Right. It's not in the Constitution. I checked.

DARYL: Then when you start finding out how extensive their network was.

JEN: Right. I mean, atheists working in the police?

ABE: The military?

DARYL: At truly surprising levels of Government...

From today' NYTIMES:

Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led To Threats

When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.

But minutes into the talk, the officer, Maj. Freddy J. Welborn, began to berate Specialist Hall and another soldier about atheism, Specialist Hall wrote in a sworn statement. “People like you are not holding up the Constitution and are going against what the founding fathers, who were Christians, wanted for America!” Major Welborn said, according to the statement.... In November, [Hall] was sent home early from Iraq because of threats from fellow soldiers.

... It is unclear how widespread religious discrimination or proselytizing is in the armed forces, constitutional law experts and leaders of veterans’ groups said. No one has independently studied the issue, and service members are reluctant to come forward because of possible backlash, those experts said.

RTWT here. My favorite part is actually a minor thing, a grammatical screw up on the part of Major Welborn who says “I’d love to tell my side of the story because it’s such a false story.” Obviously, he means because Hall's story is false, not his own, but still...