in days gone by, this guy would get a blanket party...
Posted on 02/11/2013 4:31:49 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
Washington, D.C. – The United States Army is being threatened with a lawsuit after a chaplain allegedly prayed to the Heavenly Father during an event at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, which offended an atheist soldier in attendance.
The Huffington Post reports that Staff Sergeant Victoria Gettman is unpleased with the response that she has received from her superiors in regard to complaints that she had lodged over the prayer, which was delivered last September. Gettman and a number of other soldiers were attending a mandatory suicide prevention session, which concluded with a prayer. The prayer itself was voluntary as soldiers were not required to participate.
Gettman states that she became offended because she believed it was obvious that the chaplain was delivering a Christian prayer.
“The chaplain said we have to have something bigger than ourselves. We need, and he stresses need, to have something divine in our life,” she said. “The entire theater was [then] forced into a mass Christian prayer. … I heard him refer to his ‘Heavenly Father’ and ‘Lord.’”
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Just smack ‘em!
which is why my oldest wanted navy seals or marine recon but alas he is not going into it now and good for him.
I’m not having him to share showers and rooms with feces pokers, men who dress as women and these PC nuts.
Yet again another PC fool get in the military and yet again the military looks to be even more of a joke than it was.
how does hse like her wages, how does she defend the constitution, etc?
The military needs to be revamped all over and PC crap liek this should be no more
I think a nice dishonorable discharge would be in order for this fool. Drum her out. She's bad for unit cohesiveness. She should, at all times, be thinking of her unit and not herself. Howdja' like to be in combat with this kind of thinking?
Hey atheist, if there is no god then why are you offended if a chaplain prays?
You are a hate-theist and a totalitarian. Everyone must join you in your hatred of religion, and in particular Christianity, or you complain.
The unexamined life is not worth living. Apparently you haven’t thought much so get on with it and make the world a better place.
If a faggot has no religious preference then he should just sit there silent.
I think there’s more to Petreaus being taking down...Seems the chick got away with absolutely no penalty....and now here’s another chick after his hide.
I really can’t see how there could possibly be any way to sue the Army, being that anyone then could sue if he felt the sarge yelled at him too loudly or dressed him down in front of his squad, or . . . you name it.
So, how can the Army possibly be sued for anything?
in days gone by, this guy would get a blanket party...
Agreed.
Many atheists are wise enough to realize that they are treated better in a Christian country than any other place. Turn the nation over to those who do not follow Judeo-Christian values, and the whole nation suffers.
Ummm. Civie here. What is a blanket party?
Put her butt in combat against muslims and see if she’s offended when a muslim yells “Allah Akbar!” right before he start shooting at her.
Awwww. Poor baby. What is she gonna do when she is on the frontlines with someone shouting to Allah as he blows himself and her up? Sue the guy because she is offended? Did someone force her to join the military? One Nation Under God? The military of that Nation?
It’s a she and she’s a lab tech instructor. She won’t be on the front lines any time soon. Too bad.
And when she’s ordered to fire on American Christian civilians...
While Gettman acknowledged that the closing prayer was optional, she asserted that some of those in attendance may have been from other faiths and were not aware that they did not have to participate
Sorry but this person is a lying sack of crap.
I was in the military. I can assure you that that everyone in attendance unless a idiot knew the closing prayer was optional.
The military LIVES to give directions!
I don’t think this kind of thing is unconstitutional, but do believe it’s better to divide the mandatory attendance part of the meeting from the handing out of candles and bowing of one’s head in prayer (and ideally it would be best to hold them on different occasions). Apparently this ceremony went well beyond a brief invocation.
then maybe she can break new ground and be the first female to have one...
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