'They're starting to wonder, is this going to be a place where I'm welcomed?'
A leading defender of Christians in the military says the crackdown on the free religious expression of Christians in uniform is increasing despite Pentagon assurances to the contrary, leading active-duty personnel to re-evaluate their careers and young Americans and their parents to reconsider service at all.
Recent discipline for military chaplains dispensing biblical counsel have made national headlines, but a recent piece in the Washington Times suggests enlistment numbers are in danger of dropping as well.
Liberty Institute represents chaplains in two high-profile cases as well as several other personnel reprimanded for their free expression of Christian beliefs. Senior counsel Michael Berry said the American people are paying attention and getting increasingly worried about what’s happening in the military.
“A great deal of Americans of faith, which is still a majority of our country, are looking at the environment and climate within our federal government and military more specifically and seeing case after case, report after report,” Berry said in an interview with WND and Radio America.
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I think Obama would rather have Jihadists than God loving American souls in our military.
ReplyDeleteDon't let it happen, America!
Who exactly is doing all the complaint-filing and whining about personal observations of holidays they find significant to their culture, values and belief system? I doubt it's atheists, who typically don't care what superstitions others practice, as long as they don't try to compel them to take serious part.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is it's probably the more "evangelical" aka "annoying" Christians themselves, who insist on proselytizing to others in the (military) workplace, then complain when they're asked to keep it to themselves.
Either that or the Muslims again, trying to curtail Christian practices while demanding more and more concessions to arbitrary Islamic bead jiggling.
As long as everyone shows up to work every day, performs the job they are assigned and refrains from insisting others modify their behavior to acknowledge their particular superstitions, freedom of religion is just that: the freedom to believe as one wishes...or not.
This is a Christian country!
ReplyDeleteThe same reason I left after 10 years. Wrong faith, wrong color.
ReplyDeleteI didn't want our grandchildren serving under this Muslim President. Christians are being persecuted in our current military and don't feel they are welcome. time to go...
ReplyDelete11:03. You do realize you don't have to be a Christian to be president? We don't have a religious test to be in government just as it should be.
ReplyDeleteJust another of Ob's plots to destroy our country and change it to a Muslim-dominated world.
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