Louisiana Republican congressman John Fleming apparently feels right at home among radical Religious Right activists, judging by his willingness to appear regularly on their radio programs and at their events. To date, he has appeared on radio programs hosted by David Barton, Tony Perkins, Janet Mefferd, and even End Times fanatic Rick Wiles.
To that impressive list we can now also add Gordon Klingenschmitt, who recently interviewed Fleming on his “Pray In Jesus Name” program, mostly about his efforts to add language to the National Defense Authorization Act that essentially seeks to give military service members the right to engage in anti-gay discrimination under the guise of protecting religious liberty.
After failing to get his preferred language adopted last time around, Fleming told Klingenschmitt that he is hopeful that his efforts to guarantee such protections will succeed now that Republicans have gained control of both the House and the Senate.
Warning that liberal activists are seeking to “expand secularism, humanism, atheism to limit your First Amendment right of speech not only in the military but elsewhere,” Fleming said that conservative Christians must remain vigilant and work to expand protections for their religious liberty.
“With the next NDAA, we hope to strengthen our language even more,” he said, “because we’ll have both a Senate and a House Republican majority. So we’d really like to expand upon the language we already have in the NDAA that protects First Amendment speech and also protects atheist chaplains”:
