Don't know why -- he wouldn't hurt a fly.
Posted on 02/25/2010 10:06:27 AM PST by iowamark
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins was scheduled to give a devotional message Thursday at Andrews Air Force Base for the National Prayer Luncheon. However, CBN News White House Correspondent David Brody has learned that Perkin's invitation was rescinded.
After Perkins spoke out against President Barack Obama's plans to lift restrictions on homosexuals serving in the military, Perkins received a letter from chaplain's office at the base.
The letter referred to past statement by the council, and read the group is, "incompatible in our role as military members who serve our elected officials and our commander in chief."
Perkins appeared on The 700 Club on Thursday to discuss his reaction to the rescinded invitation and his concerns over the possible threats to freedom of speech and religions.
Click play to watch the interview.
Don't know why -- he wouldn't hurt a fly.
It’s OK. Bible said it was going to be this way. Look at it this way, he was mocked for Christ’s sake. What’s the Bible say about those who are mocked for Christ’s sake?
Head down, keep fighting.
LOL...that’s what/who I was thinking...
Obams banned by Christians.
Actually, they are to protect and defend the Constitution.
http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2010/02/24/exclusive-tony-perkins-disinvited-to-military-prayer-breakfast.aspx
“”It looks like speaking out against the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy may have consequences. Just ask Tony Perkins.
The Brody File has learned that the Andrews Air Force base chaplain’s office rescinded their prayer luncheon invitation to Family Research Council President Tony Perkins just two days after Perkins criticized President Obama’s call for lifting restrictions on homosexuals in the military.
The National Prayer Luncheon takes place this Thursday Feb. 25 at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, D.C. The theme is “Getting Back to the Basics.” Perkins is an ordained minister and a Marine Corps veteran so he was asked to speak and accepted. He was planning to give a devotional message not a political one.
However, after President Obama called on Congress to lift restrictions on homosexuals serving in the military, Perkins forcefully spoke out against it. Two days later, Perkins got the letter from the Andrews Air Force Base chaplain’s office saying thanks, but no thanks — the invitation was stripped.
The letter referred to past statements by the Family Research Council, saying the group is “incompatible in our role as military members who serve our elected officials and our Commander in Chief.”
Tony Perkins calls it blacklisting and has this reaction:
“As one who took the oath to defend and protect our freedoms, I am disappointed that I’ve been denied the opportunity to speak to members of the military, in a non-political way, solely because I exercised my free speech rights in a different forum. It’s ironic that this blacklisting should occur because I called for the retention and enforcement of a valid federal statute.
I am very concerned, however, that this merely foreshadows the serious threat to religious liberty that would result from repeal of the current military eligibility law. Such legislation would not merely open the military to homosexuals. It would result in a zero-tolerance policy toward those who disapprove of homosexual conduct. Military chaplains would bear the heaviest burden. Would their sermons be censored to prevent them from preaching on biblical passages which describe homosexual conduct as a sin? Would they remain free to counsel soldiers troubled by same-sex attractions about the spiritual and psychological resources available to overcome those attractions?
Any chaplain who holds to the millennia-old tradition of Judeo-Christian sexual morality could be denied promotion, or even be forced out of the military altogether understand the untenable situation that this creates for chaplains and the men and women in uniform. I urge Congress, the President, and the top leadership of our military to place the constitutional guarantee of religious liberty ahead of the fashionable political correctness of a special interest group.”””
So the chaplain serves the President and not God. Got it.
Excuse me - when did it become an organization of “military members who serve our elected officials and our commander in chief”? I was under the impression that the troops served our country.
think you got the wrong Tony- that drama king is gay isn’t he?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Perkins_(politician)
Mother will not be happy.
They will be doing all their praying to Allah in Arabic or Farci?
The same prohibition on establishment of a specific religion prohibits the government from restricting free exercise thereof.
“....restrict Christians and Jews”
You got that right.
God bless you, Mr. Perkins. Stay the course.
National Prayer Luncheon
Homosexualists Only
However Norman Bates was invited to give a few remarks. People in attendance were a little disconcerted by the large knife Bates had in his hand.
This is the same Air Force that has built a Pagan Chapel at the Air Force Academy.
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