Posted on 02/04/2012 10:25:49 AM PST by bkopto
The emerging conflict between the Catholic Church and the Obama administration may have a new front: in the U.S. military itself.
The Catholic Church is fighting mad about an HHS ruling that would have them buy insurance for things they consider sinful–contraception, sterilization and abortion.
All the bishops in the country sent out a letter to be read in their parishes promising that the Church "cannot-and will not-comply with this unjust law."
Even Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who is in charge of Catholic military chaplains sent out the same letter.
But after he did, the Army's Office of the Chief of Chaplains sent out another communication forbidding Catholic priests to read the letter, in part because it seemed to encourage civil disobedience, and could be read as seditious against the Commander-in-Chief.
More than one Catholic chaplain who spoke to us off the record confirmed that many chaplains disobeyed this instruction and read the letter anyway.
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The letter also tries to clarify to priests that the Archbishop's letter "concerns a moral, not a political issue."
While it is true that soldiers do not have an unlimited right to free speech or political action, the military does not want to strain relations with the Catholic Church and its chaplains who provide services to many service members of all faiths.
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The Military Is Now Telling Catholic Chaplains What They Can And Can't Say About The Obama Administration
First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak out because I was Protestant.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
This is just the beginning.
I’ve long predicted that chaplains in the military are an endangered species.
Just wait till some chaplain speaks the Biblical truth about homosexuality.
They will have to choice either their faith or their career.
Oh joy, a new Commandment: “Thou Shalt Not Commit Integrity.”
not really a surprise anymore.
It is the military and they are military officers and there have always restrictions on speaking specifically against an administration under normal circumstances. This does not prohibit speaking against certain “general” practices such as abortion as being antithetical to church beliefs as long as it is couched in religious and ethical terms and is not specific to a policy or policymaker.
I believe that Gen. Boykin is an EXAMPLE of what happens to a REAL CHRISTIAN that is a Chaplain in Obama’s military. VERY SCARY!
Thou Shalt Have No God Obave Me
I am NOT Catholic,however this is WRONG!
They have the RIGHT under their religion to oversea what is part of their belief.
45% of Cahtolic voted FOR Obama last time around despeite Obama’s “not wanting to punish his daughter with a baby”. Maybe this will help wake up Catholics that OBAMA is NOT your candidate.
I am NOT Catholic,however this is WRONG!
They have the RIGHT under their religion to oversea what is part of their belief.
45% of Cahtolic voted FOR Obama last time around despeite Obama’s “not wanting to punish his daughter with a baby”. Maybe this will help wake up Catholics that OBAMA is NOT your candidate.
This is why the commie lib “progressives” have been working so hard to remove religious people from the military. Bring on the wiccans, atheists, homosexuals and other assorted freaks. The military is headed down the same road that Hollywood, the national media and our educational institutions went.
This needs to be updated.
First they came for the Christians.
Then they came for the Jews.
Then they came for the whites who were not members of unions.
Then they came for the heterosexuals.
Finally the people fought back.
A whole bunch of people got suckered into voting for that Kenyan poser.
Unless those same voters have been sleeping or in a coma for the last 3 years,they have no excuse this time around.
If the Administration makes the issue a law, then it IS a political issue. At some point, if this keeps up, we who side with freedom, liberty, God, and the Individual will HAVE to break the law, just as those who fought for civil rights in the past.
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The Soviet Union used to be a state run by ideology. Today’s ideology of the European Union is social-democratic, statist, and a big part of it is also political correctness. I watch very carefully how political correctness spreads and becomes an oppressive ideology, not to mention the fact that they forbid smoking almost everywhere now. Look at this persecution of people like the Swedish pastor who was persecuted for several months because he said that the Bible does not approve homosexuality. France passed the same law of hate speech concerning gays. Britain is passing hate speech laws concerning race relations and now religious speech, and so on and so forth. What you observe, taken into perspective, is a systematic introduction of ideology which could later be enforced with oppressive measures. Apparently that is the whole purpose of Europol. Otherwise why do we need it? To me Europol looks very suspicious. I watch very carefully who is persecuted for what and what is happening, because that is one field in which I am an expert. I know how Gulags spring up.
Forced abortions are unethical. Especially when the person you’re forcing into an abortion is somebody who has to do the killing and knows it is murder.
Are chaplains forbidden to speak out on the moral evil of forced abortions?
Obama has declared all-out war on Christianity. Forcing Christians to perform abortions is just an easier way for the Muslim caliphate to kill off infidels. This is the Anti-Christ’s way of beginning sharia. You just watch.
One cut at a time makes for a slow death of a country.
Render unto Caesar . . .
Yes, but our Declaration made clear that Life - including the Life of an unborn child- is not to be Caesar’s.
I hope Catholic priests and lay soldiers, and other Christians, and people of all true faiths, leave the military altogether in protest. They will not, though. They will not even make a peep - they’d rather live in the Gilded Cage of their precious security clearances and their upcoming pensions, than act on their conscience.
As for the “national security” we will lose if they do all leave, it has been a charade since WWII anyway - a concerted effort by Globalists within and without our borders to have our blood and treasure and sovereignty spilled in absurd, hopeless “conflicts” in Third World hell holes of limited importance, while doing nothing of consequence to protect our southern border from invasion, nor address the Islamic danger steadily infiltrating our society and government and military.
We live again in the days of tyrants and traitors.
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