Military chaplains told to shy from Jesus
Mr. Baugham said the 350 chaplains he oversees are concerned about a new set of guidelines issued in August after complaints about Christian evangelism at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. The Air Force guidelines allow “a brief, nonsectarian prayer” during military ceremonies “to add a heightened sense of seriousness or solemnity, not to advance specific religious beliefs.”
“So, to what deity do you address your prayer to?” Mr. Baugham asked. “No one knows. And who gets to write the prayers? Once the government becomes the approving authority, the poor chaplain is forced to be an agent of the state.”
Mr. Baugham said he had “just got a call from an Army chaplain in Iraq who says he’d be hammered if he used Jesus’ name. Chaplains are scared to death. They must clear their prayers with their commanders, they can mention Jesus’ name at chapel services, but not outside that context.”
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Who would serve as a chaplain under those conditions?
Military ceremonies are mandatory military formations. Unless the unit leadership is going to exclude all non-Christians from the event (which would be viewed as bigoted in the first place), they will need to provide a non-denominational prayer that does not infringe on those that are required to attend and hold non-Christian beliefs (or not have a Chaplain attend at all).
I doubt you'd be so supportive if the military commander was a Muslim and had an imam invoke prayers to Allah in such events.