Posted on 06/08/2013 6:22:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
The U.S. Air Force directed a military base to remove a video tribute to First Sergeants because it mentioned the word ‘God’ and might be offensive to atheists or Muslims.
The tribute was created by a chaplain at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The chaplain wrote a poem titled, “God Created A First Sergeant.” It was later adapted into a video with a narration.
The video was modeled after the Dodge Ram Super Bowl commercial titled, “God Created A Farmer.”
“On the eighth day, God looked down on His creation and said, ‘I need someone who will take care of the Airmen,’” the tribute read. “So God created a First Sergeant.”
Chaplain leadership at the base signed off on the project as well as other base officials and earlier this week the video was posted on YouTube. But it was soon taken down after other officers objected.
“Proliferation of religion is not allowed in the Air Force or military,” wrote the chief of the Air Force News Service Division in an email I obtained. “How would an Agnostic, Atheist or Muslim serving in the military take this video?”
“I would not recommend using this at all,” the chief wrote.
He also took issue with the wording of the video, according to the emails.
“The choice of ‘On the Eighth day’ verbiage to begin this video is highly suggestive from the book of Genesis in the Bible and has Christian overtones,” he wrote.
An Air Force spokesperson told Fox News the video was removed for a legal review.
“The Air Force removed the ‘God Created a First Sergeant’ video from the official Joint Base McGuire Dix YouTube site to evaluate whether it is consistent with official Air Force guidance, to include whether it meets official guidance governing religious neutrality in the Air Force as prescribed in Air Force Instruction 1-1, Air Force Culture,” spokesperson Ann Stefanek said in a statement.
A source with knowledge of the incident tells me that the video was made to simply honor First Sergeants. The chaplain had written the poem several months ago and it was recently turned into a multimedia presentation.
The decision to censor the video comes less than a week after the Military Religious Freedom Foundation ordered the Air Force to remove an inspirational painting from Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.
The painting included a reference to a Bible verse in the Gospel of Matthew, “Blessed are the peacemakers.”
The Air Force complied with those demands and less than one hour after MRFF founder Mikey Weinstein filed the complaint, the painting was removed.
An Airman who reached out to Fox News said Air Force leadership is “hypersensitive to anyone who says they feel like their rights are being violated.”
“It’s extremely frustrating,” the Airman said. “The Air Force is living in fear of Mikey Weinstein.”
The Airman, who asked not to be identified because he feared being disciplined, said many people are furious over the censorship of the chaplain’s video.
“If our chaplains cannot speak the name of God, let alone Christ, why have them?” he asked. “I’ve towed the company line for years but this has pushed me too far to sit quietly while personal liberties are trampled upon.”
The Airman said in recent months they have been reminded that they cannot proselytize and they cannot share their faith on the installation.
“We are strongly discouraged from having any kind of Christian items on our desks or in our offices,” he said.
MRFF founder Mikey Weinstein needs a little tar and feathers applied
I think they must like being victims. Oh well, it's their suicide that is taking place.
IDIOT!
That is JEWISH overtones!
And then some...
Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.
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Are you still killing your unborn? -- GOD |
If the military hates Christians, then Christians should not volunteer. They don’t stand for constitutional freedom anymore, anyway, and why give your life in service to Marxism or Islam? See if the atheists and Muslims fill up the military ranks. Christians should not support funding the military that hates them, either.
“a Master Sergeant in the Army Band at Ft. Myer, VA, who is under attack by his openly homosexual commanding officer for his Christian beliefs”
And there will be more and more persecution of Christians as homosexuals promote more homosexuals.
pathetic...and pitiful.....
military leaders USED to be leaders in character...
the fact that most of them are bending over in step to do the bidding of the bammey cabal is just very revealing....
just pretty little boys who managed to get into one of the academies based on some networking I suppose...I no longer even think there are standards...
of course a lot of these creeps got in during the Clintoon years...all those votes for Perot really meant something afterall...
just like all the votes that people didn't give to Romney....
I disagree with every point you raise.
“Because I’m retired Air Force, so I can speak to the topic.”
Back at ya.
Honest recruiting slogans:
“The Marines, looking for a few good men. . . .and a couple hundred-thousand dumb-a$$es”
“The Army, be all you can be. . . clueless and pathetic”
“The Navy, it’s not just a job. . .it’s a silly job”
(Gotta luv inter-service rivalry).
All part of Obamagabe’s communist manifesto, read it. This is nothing new. He hates Christianity. Most muslims do.
“What’s next? Removing crosses at military cemeteries?”
The VA has already tried that and was shot down.
Something no one should forget. 95% of the JCS were appointed by Obamagabe. In otherwords they are all little
Wesley Clarks. They in-turn appoint other liberals down the chain of command. When Obamagabe finally ends his eight year destruction tour on this country the military will have to be rebuild from the ground up, and that includes firing all general officers that were appointed under Obamagabe. End of story.
And one more thing to never forget. It was the creepy little Robert Gates, the liberal appointed under Bush, who remained Sec of Def under Obamagabe, who orchestrated the end of DADT and flooded the US services with sodomites. This SOB was to never be trusted after he decided to stay on when the communist took power.
Yes it is Jewish. But, it is also Christian. We have adopted the Jewish OT canon, though we also have the New Testament, obviously.
And one more thing to never forget. It was the creepy little Robert Gates, the liberal appointed under Bush, who remained Sec of Def under Obamagabe, who orchestrated the end of DADT and flooded the US services with sodomites. This SOB was to never be trusted after he decided to stay on when the communist took power.
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Good point.
And, never forget who originally appointed Gates.
95% of the JCS were appointed by Obamagabe. In otherwords they are all little
Wesley Clarks. They in-turn appoint other liberals down the chain of command. When Obamagabe finally ends his eight year destruction tour on this country the military will have to be rebuild from the ground up, and that includes firing all general officers that were appointed under Obamagabe. End of story.
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General Sherman’s destruction of the South has nothing on Obama’s destruction of this country — and, especially, of its military.
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