[Midwesterner53]

Mickey Weinstein has made a career of trying to cleanse Christianity from the military. He is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and fancies himself as the decision maker of what Christians can and can't do in uniform. Mr President, if you read Free Republic or see this story, please intervene again to countermand this order and restore a voluntary effort on the part of service members to show their faith and provide comfort in terrible situations. No one is forced to do anything here, please correct this travesty and tell the Defense Department to ignore Weinstein and his incessant complaining.

[ptsal]

Not a good idea.
Who is the commanding officer?

[Vermont Lt]

So print out another tag and put it with the other two.

Is anyone stopping that? It’s not like it’s hard to do.

[Red Badger]

Mickey Weinstein doesn’t sound like a Christian name................

[antidemoncrat]

The new and improved USS USA. When a snowflake complains, immediately change course.

[Candor7]

Army says faith-based group can no longer put Bible verses on dog tags after complaint>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Alahwahoo Whackbar! ( sarc.)

Must be an Obama POS somewhere in the Army who brought this.

[OpusatFR]

This is voluntary much like the decision to allow beards and religious headgear.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/23/265230702/pentagon-relaxes-uniform-rules-to-allow-religious-headgear

[SkyDancer]

Don’t they have religious preferences already embossed on the tags?

[Skywise]

This is absolute BS and this twit and the military should be sued for bigotry and violation of civil rights.

These aren’t actual military dog tags - theyre licensed products for open purchase. They’re not government instituted nor a government establishment of religion anymore than the US flag on a bible is.

[lastchance]

I know the Constitutional rights of service members are not so clear as the general public. But does the Army have blanket authority for such an action?

[glock rocks]

Operation Shield of Strength

[faithhopecharity]

My bet is PDJT will correct this immediately.

[DEPcom]

Confuse here. Can you wear a third dog tag with the verse on it?

[fortheDeclaration]

Pure evil!

[Captain Walker]

I imagine I’ll be going against the grain on this, but why not just have another personalized dog tag added to the chain, and leave the government-issued tags alone?

The information on the dog tags is standard from one to the next; the practice of putting Bible quotes on them is relatively new.

If the tags are government-issued (as they are), then why demand that a secular government put a recognition of someone’s religious beliefs on government property?

[DoughtyOne]

Trump will put the skids to this restriction.

This is a really idiotic thing to ban.

[montag813]

It’s going to be a lot of fun to see Trump demanding this be reversed, as a 2nd blow to the Obama scrum who still infect the armed services commands

[Seruzawa]

This says more about the cowardice of the REMF Officer Corps than anything else.

[IndispensableDestiny]

These tags are in addition to the two standard ones each soldier receives. Unless a trademarked logo is on the tag (Army Seal, Divisional symbol, etc.); I don’t see how the Army can force them to cease making and selling the tags. Meaning, an oval tag with a notch in it does not make a trademark.

[Polynikes]

F*** Mickey W and the horse he rode in on. The Army had no problems with Satanism IE: the Temple of Set and LTC Aquino but now Christianity is an issue?

[maxwellsmart_agent]

There is always some troubled spirit like Mikey Weinstein who is so afraid that there may be a God that they object to anything that might be a reminder.