Pentagon Pete’s Jesus War Talk Freaks Out Troops
March 29, 2026
The Daily Beast
Elizabeth Frantz/ReutersThe defense secretary raised alarm bells among troops after disrupting the military’s long-standing practice of separating church and state. Pentagon staffers, current officers, former high-ranking military officials, chaplain corps, and veterans groups revealed the “unprecedented” monthly worship services led by Pete Hegseth in a Washington Post report published Sunday.
They expressed concerns that the Defense Secretary was flouting the Constitution by pushing his evangelical beliefs onto service members. “I don’t approve of cramming your religious faith down people’s throats, and when the top of the chain couches these operations in this hyper-Christian tone, it flies in the face of the freedom of religion that the Constitution enshrines and that our men and women in uniform sign up to defend,” one source told the Post.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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