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Air Force removes Bible from POW-MIA display
Fox News ^ | March 31, 2014 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 03/31/2014 6:23:46 PM PDT by DaveMSmith

On March 14 Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh told members of the House Armed Services committee that there was no war on religious liberty.

“The single biggest frustration I’ve had in this job is the perception that somehow there is religious persecution inside the United States Air Force,” the general told lawmakers. “It is not true.”

Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) told me the Air Force seems to be the worst offender when it comes to attacks on religious liberty.

If that’s true, perhaps Gen. Welsh could explain why a Bible was removed from a POW/MIA Missing Man Table at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. The removal of the Good Book was first reported by the Gannett-owned newspaper Florida Today.

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Ron Crews, the executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, told me he hopes the Air Force will restore the Bible to its rightful place. He called it a symbol of hope and courage for military personnel and their families.

“It is sad when military traditions honoring our POWs and MIAs are trumped by pursuits to remove any vestige of the faith that has sustained our warriors since Valley Forge,” Crews told me.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airforce; bible; christianpersecution; fail; mia; military; missingman; pow; powmia; religiousfreedom
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To: RobinOfKingston

Expunging tokens of faith even from places where it obviously played a HUGE role.

God is mad.


41 posted on 03/31/2014 7:24:31 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: gaijin

Traitor!


42 posted on 03/31/2014 7:35:33 PM PDT by Finalmente
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To: DaveMSmith

Welsh is terrified of being sued by Mickey Weinstein .
Micky Weinstein needs to have a close encounter with a fast moving bus .


43 posted on 03/31/2014 7:58:03 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: boycott

@vj44 huh.

Now we know for sure who’s the REAL POTUS.


44 posted on 03/31/2014 8:18:00 PM PDT by shove_it (my real nickname is Otter)
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To: SgtBob; mabarker1
it's like they are trying to see how much sh!t they can force the country to eat...

if i say anything else i'll simply get suspended or a knock at the door, so on that note, i'll say goodnight, then my PRAYERS, and goto bed

45 posted on 03/31/2014 8:25:00 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: shove_it

Yep. Valerie is running the show. And she’s no better qualified than a community organizer.


46 posted on 03/31/2014 9:24:35 PM PDT by boycott
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To: certrtwngnut
Then the solution is to be...

LOUDER!!!


47 posted on 03/31/2014 10:25:26 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DaveMSmith

Tell your kids, nephews and nieces, young neighbors, co-religionists and others of that age to skip the military if and until we get a “Reagan” figure and congress back into national leadership who can reverse this nonsense. Coming from a family who came here in 1690 I don’t say this lightly.


48 posted on 03/31/2014 10:28:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: kaehurowing
How about two men on a wedding cake, and a barbie doll with a man’s head?

We are all too familiar with the stories out of Hollywood of how screwed up some star's kids became and are becoming.

I fear for John's two offspring...

49 posted on 03/31/2014 10:31:00 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: anyone


50 posted on 03/31/2014 10:42:03 PM PDT by deks
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Expunging tokens of faith even from places where it obviously played a HUGE role.

Mickey has his work cut out...

 

 

 

 

Here was a start...

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20131002/NEWS05/310020004/D-Day-cemetery-among-victims-shutdown     How pissed off do you have to be; before SOMETHING is done?

51 posted on 03/31/2014 10:42:55 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Chode
it's like they are trying to see how much sh!t they can force the country to eat...

You can find a story about that subject in the link I just provided...

52 posted on 03/31/2014 10:44:55 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DaveMSmith

The new fag force.


53 posted on 03/31/2014 10:59:49 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: SgtBob

I’m thinking of other things that SHOULD be burned.


54 posted on 04/01/2014 4:21:32 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: Chode

That’s exactly what they are doing. They are going with “pick on the Christains” plan so they can validate the “bitter gun clinger, Bible toting, white folks” crap.


55 posted on 04/01/2014 4:25:03 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: Elsie
100%
56 posted on 04/01/2014 4:45:41 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Jack Hammer

The fish rots from the head. Junior officers do this garbage because senior officers want it. Senior officers do it because the CIC wants it.


57 posted on 04/01/2014 5:07:56 AM PDT by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: smoothsailing

We need to assault the Air Force for its lack of inclusion of Jewish chaplains. They have only a few Jewish chaplains and hundreds of Christian chaplains.

What is the basis of THAT!

Then they will be forced to admit that this nation is predominantly of a Christian background.

That is why on a per capita basis there should be more bibles, more Christian prayers, and more Christian chapels than anything else.

And those differences should lead to TOLERATION and not a misguided definition of “inclusion”. The Founders wanted toleration when they penned the 1st amendment.

That is, ACCEPTANCE of differences.


58 posted on 04/01/2014 5:18:16 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: gaijin

Somebody needs to tar and feather Mikey Swinestein.


59 posted on 04/01/2014 5:28:45 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: gaijin

I’m speechless.


60 posted on 04/01/2014 5:42:14 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
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