Posted on 05/01/2013 9:27:40 AM PDT by Nachum
The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: "Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense...Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis...”.
The statement, released to Fox News, follows a Breitbart News report on Obama administration Pentagon appointees meeting with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein to develop court-martial procedures to punish Christians in the military who express or share their faith.
(From our earlier report: Weinstein is the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and says Christians--including chaplains--sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ in the military are guilty of “treason,” and of committing an act of “spiritual rape” as serious a crime as “sexual assault.” He also asserted that Christians sharing their faith in the military are “enemies of the Constitution.”)
Being convicted in a court martial means that a soldier has committed a crime under federal military law. Punishment for a court martial can include imprisonment and being dishonorably discharged from the military.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Your right on point manc. But you are replying to someone called snake eater.
No one had to. I received baptism long before entering the Air Force.
No doubt you are correct.
Wow! You came late to Jesus. I was baptized at 10 and attended Sunday School until I was 16. I went to camp meetings and heard the hell and damnation sermons until I could quote them verbatim. My Grandfather was a Baptist minister. My Great Grandfather was a minister. Son raised properly in the deep south had no need for religion in the workplace.
I understand where you are coming from. Forgive me for my opinion being tainted. I recognize that and will not consider that in my political voting opinion because personal experience doesn’t always equate to reality on the broader scale.
before our more dangerous patrols we always had a prayer for ALL OF US, now this Govt thinks otherwise and they have removed a cross which some guys put up in Afghanistan on camp.
just replied to him
Matthew 28
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Our Commander is Almighty!
to my knowledge I have not heard one person ask him what the hell he meant by that comment and the dopes in the back were clapping, frigging idiots
What we see unfolding is a judgment - not upon the Pentagon but upon... us as a people. 2 Chr 7:14
Sorry, but I don’t see any of the military brass stepping up to fight for the faith. That makes the senior military leadership just as culpable as Obama.
Don’t give up!!! We need people willing to stand up for what is right!
Beautifully stated!!!!!
thanks, something keeps me fighting for some reason but today after hearing 15 year old girls can get the morning after pill and then the day went down fast .
I’m off to bed early and hopefully we actually get some good news for once, you know like Obama has been arrested for fraud or lying , I know I;m dreaming
What did he say?
If a person is pestering others, then it could prevent harmony within the group. If a guy has merely mentioned that he’s a Christian and proud of it, or has been approached with sincere questions, then I see no problem at all.
Agree with that. There should be no religious proselytization in the military.
KP.....for 90 days straight. Not one day off.
No witnessing the Christian faith? But I assume you’re ok with soldiers taking the Lord’s name in vain, ridiculing Christianity and otherwise making faithful Christians as uncomfortable as possible. Why is it that everyone gets a free pass at trashing Christians when every other religion is protected? I thought the First Amendment applied to everyone?
When I went into the Air Force in 1972 I discovered that some of the chaplains were not born again Christians ...
they were officers first
officers who just happened to work at the chapel...
I doubt if they would speak up in cases like these...
The3y were not men of God...,
Those who ignore the meaning of Christianity, ignorantly think the Christian witness is synonymous to an attempt to proselytize.
They also conveniently ignore their encroachment and interference with God’s Plan by their own worldly endeavors.
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