Posted on 05/28/2015 8:54:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
freedom of religion, becomes freedom from christianity
Dispicable.
. . .If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven’s scenes,
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.
I’m glad there are some organizations that will pursue court cases in defense of Christians. We need more of them.
“They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.”
Sounds blasphemous.
There have been numerous versions of this story posted on FR, and the full story is not quite what Graham is pushing here. The bible verses were but one part of this Marine’s broader pattern of disobeying orders from her supervisor (with whom she was apparently engaged in a long-running personality clash).
This country I going to Hell fast!!! What’s next? The Ghettos?
No one is allowed to put anything on any computer monitor. This isn’t about the content, if she were allowed to do this, then the next guy over could put Alluah Akbar on his and they couldn’t tell him to take it down. The military is about conformity. She was given a lawful command based upon previously known to her regulations, she basically told her superiors to Eff off, and they rightly corrected her insubordination. She obviously didn’t belong in the Marines if she couldn’t follow a simple order. Whether she agreed with it or not.
Under the UCMJ she was found guilty of disobeying a lawful order four times, failing to go to an appointed place of duty, disrespecting a superior commissioned officer. No wonder she got the Big Chicken Dinner at Courts Martial. It was appealed and the appeals court found “Military orders are presumed to be lawful and are disobeyed at the subordinate’s peril,” as for the other two charges either you were where you were suppose to be or not and as for disrespecting a superior commissioned officer (A High Ranking Officer)that would probably be considered unchristian like.
She took a gamble and lost....
Freepers: don’t let your sons and daughters join the military! Once the Christians quit joining, the brass will have to change it’s mind.
Our government is now fully secular and is openly hostile towards people of faith, specifically Christians. Meanwhile, the government is giving other groups of people special or super rights who will be immune to scrutiny. Islamists, gays, atheists are not only protected by this government but are using the government to attack Christians.
I predict, within a short period of time, life-ending atrocities towards Christians by our government and its allies while the media looks the other way.
Time to stand up and be counted.
Sadly, the ones left will immediately TURN on AMERICANS.....WITH THEIR GUNS.
If this is simply about not having anything on one's monitor, then you are correct. However, if she is surrounded by other people with all sorts of crap on their monitors (rainbow flags?), then she was being discriminated against.
Allah Akbar would be ok, though.
I will make a caveat that I think that all government employees should NOT put ANY type of little saying on their professional & official e-mails. However, that said, until there is such a total ban, the prosecuton of this corporal should be done, because it is religious persecution by the USMC.
Having a long career in the military, I disagree. It is very positive for morale and discipline to permit individuality as much as possible. One of the great historical advantages of the US military has been the independent thinking of its troops. In contrast the soldiers of other nations are brow beat into lockstep, and that actually makes them predictable and afraid to find solutions in the middle of difficulty. They always try to get approval before they do anything toward achieving the objective on their own.
The Marine Corps Hymn has been one of my favorite pieces of music since I was a kid, because my father served in the US Marines, but the logic is maybe a little questionable.
Shouldn’t they also charge her with possession of coins and currency bearing the inscription “In God We Trust”?
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