Christians now face court martial for sharing faith in Obama's Military
Breaking: Pentagon Confirms May Court Martial Soldiers Who Share Christian Faith
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by Ken Klukowski
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.
So President Barack Obama’s civilian appointees who lead the Pentagon are confirming that the military will make it a crime–possibly resulting in imprisonment–for those in uniform to share their faith. This would include chaplains—military officers who are ordained clergymen of their faith (mostly Christian pastors or priests, or Jewish rabbis)–whose duty since the founding of the U.S. military under George Washington is to teach their faith and minister to the spiritual needs of troops who come to them for counsel, instruction, or comfort.
This regulation would severely limit expressions of faith in the military, even on a one-to-one basis between close friends. It could also effectively abolish the position of chaplain in the military, as it would not allow chaplains (or any service members, for that matter), to say anything about their faith that others say led them to think they were being encouraged to make faith part of their life. It’s difficult to imagine how a member of the clergy could give spiritual counseling without saying anything that might be perceived in that fashion.
In response to the Pentagon’s plans, retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, who is now executive vice president of the Family Research Council (FRC), said on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning:
It’s a matter of what do they mean by “proselytizing.” …I think they’ve got their defintions a little confused. If you’re talking about coercion that’s one thing, but if you’re talking about the free exercise of our faith as individual soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, especially for the chaplains, they I think the worst thing we can do is stop the ability for a soldier to be able to exercise his faith.”
FRC has launched a petition here which has already collected over 30,000 signatures, calling on Secretary Hagel is stop working with Weinstein and his anti-Christian organization to develop military policy regarding religious faith.
Sign petition here: http://www.frc.org/alert/pentagon-consultant-no-gospel-witness-for-chaplains
**UPDATE**
The FRC petition has now exceeded more than 40,000 signatures at the time of this update.
Breitbart News legal columnist Ken Klukowski is senior fellow for religious liberty with the Family Research Council and on faculty at Liberty University School of Law.
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About time too. There is no place for evangelising in the forces. If people are interested they will seek out a preacher, not the other way around. The military is specifically for killing people, not for plugging your dark age religion with it’s ‘thou shalt not kill’ law. It’s a contradiction.
Actually, self-defense is allowed in the Bible.
So, be more specific.
What will they be asked to do, which is so contrary to the Christian worldview.
Using drones in Pakistan to kill innocent children is not self-defense. Christianity has never taken notice of ‘thou shalt not kill’, history is littered with their atrocities, genocides, torture, and public executions ie burning people alive. The truth needs no such help, only liars kill other people to defend a belief while restricting others. The truth is like a lion, if left to run wild it can defend itself.
Nobody is saying people can’t believe what ever they like. But that does not include using the armed forces or any other secular public body, as a soap box to preach to a captive audience. Secular is inclusive, not exclusive, it has to be politically correct or it’s breaking the USA constitution.
This “inclusive” discussion…
(sounded more like invectives to me…) particularly focuses on Judeo-Christians, never mentioning what makes them uniquely unfit for duty.
Do you intend to be responsible for religious persecution, or would the same acts fall under a new, ethical category, once you have dehumanized your own victims?
“Cosmic” humanists… (sorry, not my expression…) have been saying some scary-sounding stuff for along time now, haven’t they?
And no one saw this coming with obama’s push for homosexuals in the military? YEP obama is clearly a CHRISTIAN and wants family values instilled in America! The military has been weeded for those who believe in the constitution and now the focus is to get those with Christian values out as well!! Only TERRORISTS, Anti-Americans, and Anti-christians are wanted in the new Army under Obama!! Everyone should be taking names and keeping records of all those involved and responsible for the collapse of the US! Currently 25 nukes unaccounted for. Special ops personnel that have been tracking them down and disabling them are being killed of by a shadow government within the US!!