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  • Army investigates chaplain trading water for baptisms [religion bashing barf alert]

    04/11/2003 3:50:39 PM PDT · by drlevy88 · 7 replies · 228+ views
    The Murky News of Frisco ^ | 4/10/2003 | TONY PUGH and KEN GARFIELD
    WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army Office of the Chief of Chaplains is checking into a report by Knight Ridder Newspapers that an Army chaplain in Iraq withheld clean bathing water from U.S. soldiers who did not first agree to hear a sermon and be baptized. The allegation against Chaplain Josh Llano, 32, of Houston, has drawn heated responses from religious, civil libertarian and atheist groups who say the practice amounts to religious coercion. Army officials said that so far their investigation hasn't shown that to be true. "Neither the Army nor the Army Chief of Chaplains approves of religious coercion,...