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FARROCKAWAY'S TAKE

Senate to Vote on 9/18/06
To Force Armed Services Chaplains
To Censor The Name of Jesus
From Any Prayer Offered Outside the Chapel

Go ballistic. Do it 9/17 and 9/18. By September 19th it will be too late. That’s all the time your government has given you.

Chaplain Lt. Gordon James Klingenschmitt has been convicted by a US Navy Court Martial of praying in the Name of Jesus just days ago. You read that right. A US Navy clergyman, an Episcopal Chaplain, was convicted for the crime of uttering a sectarian prayer (instead of the government-approved prayer) at a religious ceremony outside his allotted 1 hour on Sunday morning where it’s still legal to use the Name which is above Every Name: Jesus Christ.

Is this being done so fast that it’s bewildering to you? You bet it is. That’s the plan and don’t forget it.

The Navy claimed the Chaplain disobeyed a direct order. That order? To observe only non-sectarian prayers when praying anywhere except his allotted ‘sectarian’ worship service. The Navy has taken upon itself the authority to edit prayers. It ordered Klingenschmitt to conform or face court-martial. Full of the Honor of Jesus, Klingenschmitt chose the court-martial.

But even though this is the very first you’ve heard of this, you have precisely 24 hours to assimilate it, check into it, and then do something about it before it becomes written into law. Courteous of your government, huh?

The Senate is so pleased with this court-martial for praying in Jesus’ Name, they have decided to enshrine it in law all before you, the unsuspecting public, can act. Senator John Warner, Lindsay Graham, and Carl Levin, have a bill they are working on which would make it law for all the Armed Forces Chaplains to be forced to obey this new rule. They cloak it in such nice terms! How can anyone disagree? It sounds like this.

In situations other than theological services or sectarian ceremonies when a prayer is offered, the policy shall require chaplains to be sensitive to and respect the diversity of faiths represented.

Translation? If you use Jesus’ Name, the Navy can court-martial you, maybe wipe out your retirement benefits, fine you, at very least. That’s what this gun-barrel “language” just thrust at Chaplain Klingenschmitt is trying to do. They convicted him. Can you imagine? Convicted for praying in Jesus’ Name? He’s cleaning out his desk right now for daring to honor his Lord over the Navy, a Navy which has set itself up as God.

In a totally bizarre statement, while attempting to uphold Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter’s new rules, the Navy judge at the proceedings decided that it was permissible to punish Klingenschmitt for praying because “worshipping in public”, was not the same as, “public worship”. Navy rules permitted prayer in one, not in the other.

Oh. That makes sense. Right?

No, that is Alice-in-Wonderland, communist, double-speak. It is an insult, a slap in the face to the veterans of this great country who fought and lived, fought and died, so that our clergy would have the right to pray in Jesus’ Mighty and Glorious Name any God-blessed or any God-damned time they wanted to.

What did this guy actually do? Facts: He went and stood in uniform in front of the White House, at an event he had written permission from his CO to be at, uttered a prayer in Jesus’ Name, and said exactly nothing else to anybody. That’s it.

Reporters were there, he ignored them, didn’t say one word to them. That’s what the man did. That’s illegal behaviour for a United States Military Chaplain. Had he not used the name “Jesus”, making his prayer ‘sectarian’, he would not be court-martialed right now.

By-by retirement? By-by honorable record? Monthly fine? Letter of reprimand?

America’s historic enemies have always wanted and tried to censor prayers. The American soldier has always fought to protect the freedom of conscience of her Christian clergy. But get this: the Senate is planning to vote on this Tuesday, September 19th. Nice publicity they gave in order to solicit veterans’ reactions, huh? “Oh, yeah, we’re going to make it illegal to pray in Jesus’ Name tomorrow. We won’t put it quite like that of course. No need to put out a press release. It’s just some “language” in a bill somewhere. Just reinforcing what the Navy rules already are. Yeah, we’ve already enforced court-martial on this. No big deal.”

I’ll call this what it is.

Infamy.

Treason.

Call Senator John Warner and tell him, “The new language we are dictating to you, Senator, is as follows: Chaplains may pray according to their conscience and according to their specific faith whenever and however they see fit, whenever prayers are offered.”

Tell him if he doesn’t like it? He’s a traitor.

Ask for Warner: 888-355-3588

Ask for Bush: 202-456-1414

While there is still a little bit of America left to fight for, fight for it.