We told you religious (as well as other types of freedom) would bite the bullet in the military once our Leftist congress and president forced open homosexuality on our armed forces. It seems a recently promoted master sergeant has been reprimanded and punished for recognizing the law and serving Chick-fil-A sandwiches at his promotion party.

Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD) will be in Rapid City on Friday, June 7th and Saturday, June 8th. On Friday, she will visit with members of the Black Hills Business Council, meet with employees and management at the GE Call Center, and will then tour Ellsworth Air Force Base. On Saturday, Rep. Noem will give remarks at the American Legion State Convention.

It must have taken a lot of restraint for America’s top military leaders to sit through yesterday’s Senate hearing on sexual assault and never say the one thing on everyone’s minds: “We told you so.” A little over two years ago, the same Senate ignored the warnings of many of the men assembled Tuesday and charged ahead with its repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” against the military’s advice. Now, a year and half into this post-DADT era, these Senators demand to know why sexual attacks are through the roof.

Have you ever struggled with the question of how a good God could create such a messed-up, cruel world full of suffering? We live in a world of natural disasters, war, crime, threats from wild animals, incredible cruelty from one person toward another, illnesses, injuries, sufferings and death. How does that square with a perfect and compassionate God? There is an answer to these questions…and that answer contains hope, hope for us all.

It is not government’s right or function to take the place of God. Matthew 22:21 tells us that the things of government and the things of God are two different things. In reality, the socialist ideal of “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” never helps those who are “unlucky”. But rather, it causes entire nations to become “unlucky”, as their creativity, industry and economy crumbles under the burden of wealth redistribution. The history of socialism is consistent.

On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied soldiers clambered aboard heaving landing craft and braved six-foot swells, waves of machine gun fire, and more than 6 million mines to claim a stretch of sand at a place called Normandy. Their mission was to carve out an Allied foothold on the edge of Nazi-occupied Europe for the army of more than one million that would follow them in the summer of 1944.