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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Daily Kos: Who was Glen Doherty?

Daily Kos: Who was Glen Doherty?:


Who was Glen Doherty?

We first learned about this former Navy Seal in the tragedy at Benghazi.  Unfortunately one of our Presidential candidates has tried to take political advantage of a one-time chance meeting with Doherty several years ago.   By now most people paying attention know that Doherty's mother objected, and his best friend has offered what he says Doherty told him about that encounter.
But there is another side of Glen Doherty.  He was on the board of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, founded by Mikey Weinstein, himself a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, when he learned about Christian fundamentalism being imposed especially in the Air Force and his alma mater.
Today Mikey Weinstein wrote The Darkest of All Lies at Huffington Post.  Among the things he notes that Glen Doherty supported were
- exposing and demanding the removal of New Testament biblical citations on defense contractor