“Time and time again this Administration demonstrates it is waging a war against the very religious freedoms upon which America was founded. This is exactly why we worked to pass legislation (House Concurrent Resolution 58) this past weekend – to protect the religious liberties of all those who bravely serve in our Armed Forces.”
Partly payback for calling for Pelosi to be denied communion?
The priest doesn’t need a church to say Mass and should have set up and said Mass in the parking lot. I’m waiting to hear whether any of the Catholic clergy really pushed back on this. I want someone arrested.
Did they take away all muslim prayer rugs too? or is that still allowed?
Is there mosques in the military?
Wait a minute... I thought they said we have SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.
Since WHEN does the government OWN religion and can lock the doors of a church???
If this doesn’t DEFINE Tyranny and the phrase “Anti-American”, I don’t know what does.
What did they expect from the Anti-Christ?
Wanna bet he voted for 0bama like so many Catholics who think that the government should take money from the productive and give it to the indolent.
Further proof, if you need it, that Obama is NOT a Christian.
All these shutdowns effect masses of “whitey”. When will someone notice.
When Catholic priests stop saying Mass because the government said so, not only is it a problem for the government but also for this Catholic priest who simply wimped out. Hold Mass ANYWHERE just like it used to happen in Communist or Nazi countries.
“Chicken Shit, President.” That explains each and every one of these instances....Don’t tell me this guy was oblivious to what was going on at the IRS, NSA, Benghazi etc.
Is the (locked by the govt) military chapel owned by the diocese, or by the government?
And all those Democrat Catholics who voted for Obama are having their nightmare of sticker shock and buyer’s remorse just about now.
.. so they marched en-masse with pitch forks and torches to the commanders' quarters and dragged him out by his nightshirt, beating him with clubs and slathering him with hot tar they had prepared aforehand. Someone had breeched the quartermasters supply room and produced a dozen feather pillows which were quickly ripped open and the ensueing mess applied to the wheezing commander.
What?
No?
WHY NOT ???!!!
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”
Obama has VIOLATED the “free exercise” clause!!
Impeach the bastard!
My Aunt had a chapel in her house—formerly a bedroom. A couple of priests were permitted to say an occasional Mass there, although I believe they needed the Bishop’s permission.
Perhaps he could get his Bishop’s permission to say Mass in the parking lot or elsewhere. But on that particular day he presumably had none of the equipment needed to do so, since he didn’t expect to find the chapel locked, and everything he needed was inside.
In any case, I would consider Mass attendance to be a NECESSITY to Catholics in our armed forces, and this is clearly a violation of their rights. This should be just about the LAST expense to be cut, and certainly it was evil to lock the chapel if the Priest was willing to do his job without pay.
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