Rõck Bëyónd Belief, Fort Bragg

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Foxhole atheists plan to rock the base at Fort Bragg
By Kari Huus, msnbc.com

After a sometimes painful 18 months of gestation, Sgt. Justin Griffith of Fort Bragg, N.C., exclaims, "My baby is about to be born!" His baby is Rock Beyond Belief, apparently the first major atheist event on a U.S. military base.

Griffith, 29, who has served five years in the Army, including two deployments to Iraq, has been wrestling with the overwhelmingly Christian establishment in the Army since September 2010 to get to this point.

The March 31 event is Griffith’s answer to Rock the Fort — a day-long evangelical Christian concert and festival held at Fort Bragg on Sept. 25, 2010, put on by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, with the support and blessing of the military brass. It was the fourth in a series of events sponsored by the group on various U.S. bases dating to 2009.

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good to see the higher-ups standing by their word. also from the article:

Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick who leads the 13th Airborne Corps responded by saying that soldiers were not pressured to attend the event, and assured critics that he would provide the same opportunity to non-Christian groups that wanted to host similar events, according to a USA Today report at the time. Garrison Commander Stephen Sicinski provided a similar guarantee in writing, Griffith said.

[mmhmm]

Sounds fair to me, chiver. If you're going to allow festivals that feature religion, you have to allow for all religions practiced by those serving in the armed forces, as well as those who eschew religion.