Posted on 12/19/2014 8:49:50 PM PST by Olog-hai
Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin (U.S. Army-Ret.) says the Army violated its own regulations by punishing Chaplain Joseph Lawhorn for “using Christian scripture and solutions” in a mandatory suicide prevention training session.
Boykin, chair of the Restore Military Religious Freedom Coalition (RMRFC), also said that the treatment of Lawhorn violated the chaplain’s constitutional rights.
“First of all, his case is important because it is an infringement on his First Amendment rights,” Boykin told CNSNews.com. “Secondly, he is a chaplain. By definition, chaplains deal with spiritual issues, and all he was doing was explaining how his faith helped him. The third thing, though, is that this colonel that issued him a reprimand was in violation of the Army regulation.” …
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Active Duty ping.
Just stunning.
All First Amendment interpretations are equal, but some are more equal than others.
If a chaplain is employed by the Military to provide spiritual guidance—but is then told he must hide/or be ashamed of his training and beliefs-and manifest only the secular anti-Christian character now desired —why does the Military recruit Christian chaplains? If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he i ,he cannot be a Christian anywhere.”as Mr.Beecher once said.
Freedom of Religion in the Military ping
I’m surprised that they haven’t yet replaced the office of Chaplain with that of ‘Political Officer’. With this regime. the Leader’s popularity numbers are more important than the spiritual well being of the troops.
This persecution of Christians must be stopped.
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