Posted on 12/05/2011 7:28:18 AM PST by KyGeezer
It’s an Obama world. While we were preoccupied with other disastrous Obama policies, military bureaucrats under Barack Obama passed a new rule that barred loved ones from bringing Bibles to wounded soldiers.
The US Military says they are rescinding the order but only after a Republican lawmaker denounced the policy on the House floor. Todd Starnes reported:
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center said they are rescinding a policy that prohibits family members of wounded military troops from bringing Bibles or any religious reading materials to their loved ones.
The decision to rescind the ban on Bibles came exactly one day after a Republican lawmaker denounced the policy on the House floor and called on President Obama to publicly renounce the military policy.
“The President of the United States should address this and should excoriate the people who brought about this policy and the individual who brought it about should be dismissed from the United States Military,” Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told Fox News & Commentary.
King spoke from the House floor Thursday blasting a policy memorandum from the commander of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center written by Chief of Staff C.W. Callahan. The September 14th memo covers guidelines for “wounded, ill, and injured partners in care.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
http://www.bethesda.med.navy.mil/visitor/about_us/deputy_commander.aspx
This turd ain't gonna like the Christmas card I'm sending.
Deputy Commander Walter Reed National Military Medical Center 8901 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD. 20889-5600
We need a Christmas card sending project to the soldiers there. And in AfgPak, Kuwait and Iraq. Cards need to drop like snow in a blizzard.
With religious messages.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
8901 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD. 20889-5600
Just rip out a Koran and place the Bible inside it. It’ll be passed through with no problem.
Make no mistake! Obama and his sycophants are ANTI-RELIGIOUS to their core. Marxists only believe in the STATE and its supremacy.
Of course how else are they going to have a military full queers with the Bible making it more difficult?.. so it must be eliminated.
But what really surprises me is how meekly, cowardly the response of our "religious institutions" have been... beginning with my own (culturally). Are you telling me that all these religious institutions can not organize and present some opposition?...
What a bunch of wimps they are (with a few exceptions of course.)
PS - Walter Reed hospital is acting just like North Korea and Soviet Russia - next we’ll have people tying scripture to balloons to float over the walls there.
I thought they closed Walter Reed
Patterns of behavior reveal undeniable truths. Obama hates everything that made America great. You’ll hear from pundits long after this ordeal is over that zero “tried to do too much” in his first term. Ha! They tried to do too much at the Wellstone funeral, OWS, and in Wisconsin, too. Poor souls. F-em. May God give us enough grace as a nation to get past this horrible mistake.
Thanks for the address. oH, IT’S ON NOW1! I am sick of this stuff. He pushed the envelope too far and I hope he lives to regret it.
Send in some New Black Panther letters,a witchcraft book and a koran and things will be ok for this Marxists group running this country.
This is a direct violation of Freedom of Religion and there's no way in hell that usurping, kenyan, muslim, marxist, SOB 0bama, or any of his minions, has the right to do this!
FUBO GTFO! 412 Days until Noon Jan 20, 2013
They closed Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Bethesda has been renamed Walter Reed National Medical Center.
Do it anyway and keep doing it.
Give the “Obama Salute” to anyone who objects.
Take names and ADDRESSES of anyone who objects.
Then do something about it.
Camp out in their front lawns. Take smelly Obamas on their cars.
It’s time to play liberal...because the constitution no longer appears to matter.
Thank you for your interest in the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. We apologize for any confusion that resulted from our policy. In no way was the instruction meant to prohibit family members from providing religious items to their love ones. The intent of the instruction was to respect the religious and cultural practices of all of our patients. We are drafting a new instruction that will clearly articulate our respect for religious and cultural practices of all of our patients and families.< eyesrolling>Again, we regret any confusion that this might have caused and we thank you for your support of our Warriors and their families.
On behalf of the Command...
They did, several months ago. Scratching my head a bit...
Colonel, USAFR
This jackass needs to be immediately cashiered out of the Army, and, if he is also a physician, out of the practice of medicine as well. There is NO excuse for this kind of policy on the part of ANYONE in authority in this country.
Pray folks they can't make you stop and don't let these bastards intermediate you..I know God is with me and he will be with me forever unless I follow these disgusting Muslims or Communist..I will not denounce Christ,they can kill me but I will never say there is no God..and will as long as I am able study the Bible..
In accordance with the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure recommendations, an Office of Integration (OI) was formed in November 2005 to oversee the merger of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) and the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC). That merged facility will be staffed by Army, Navy, and Air Force medical personnel and will be the core of an integrated military medicine system in the National Capital Region (NCR). What in 2005 were three medical centers, a small community hospital, and 19 clinics offering medical care to military beneficiaries in the NCR will become, with oversight of the OI, a single tri-service medical center, a large tri-service hospital in Northern Virginia, and 20 area clinics
Groundbreaking took place on July 3, 2008 with President George W. Bush officiating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reed_National_Military_Medical_Center
muslims are worried a muslim might actually get offered or given or otherwise exposed to a Bible (gasp)- oh the humanity
Someone needs to send Bibles by balloon into Saudi Arabia- it's just as big a gulag as North Korea
Blame the bastards that put him in thw White House. He[obama] is the smae muslim communist sob that he has always been. This, what is happening to our Country, is what the sobs that voted for him wanted to happen. And the way things look now, they aren’t going to get any better.
Or "Heather Has Two Mommies."
Swap out the dust cover.
I voted but had to hold my nose since I voted McCain to try and keep the Evil one out of our lives..I actually voted for Sarah she was a breath of fresh air..
FACT ! Large study conducted at the Durham VA hospital in 1988 found men who used religious behaviors to cope were less likely to become depressed during their stay and future visits. FACT! study at San Francisco Gen Hosp reported in the Southern Medical Journal in July 1988 People who were prayed for experienced 5 times less antibiotic use, 3 times less likely to develop pulmonary edema, none of the prayed for patients required ventilation. FACT ! study in Annals of Internal Medicine Prayed for group had fewer complications,used fewer drugs and fared better than non prayed for group.
FACT ! Large study conducted at the Durham VA hospital in 1988 found men who used religious behaviors to cope were less likely to become depressed during their stay and future visits. FACT! study at San Francisco Gen Hosp reported in the Southern Medical Journal in July 1988 People who were prayed for experienced 5 times less antibiotic use, 3 times less likely to develop pulmonary edema, none of the prayed for patients required ventilation. FACT ! study in Annals of Internal Medicine Prayed for group had fewer complications,used fewer drugs and fared better than non prayed for group.
This is ridiculous. I never thought I’d see the day when the USA turned into North Korea.
They are probing, pushing the envelope, testing the limits.... When a patriotic AMERICAN speaks out, however, the Communists back down.
DC Chapter ping
Wouldn’t this be against freedom of religion?
It's right in there.
You just can't see it because it is a living document.
DC Chapter ping
Actually, if you translate that from Orwellian Duckspeak, it's more like "You just can't see it because it is a dying document." They'll kill it if they can.
IN other words.... we really wanted to ban them but since we got caught and the blow back was so bad we have decided we will change our policy and hope next time you bitter clingers and not paying attention....
IN other words.... we really wanted to ban them but since we got caught and the blow back was so bad we have decided we will change our policy and hope next time we decide to ban them that you bitter clingers are not paying attention....
You could have changed “PLD” to “Sport” and that would have been my response, almost word for word. I, too, after swearing that I would not vote for Mc Cain, after he picked Sarah, I voted for him. I am plesed to make your acquaintance,My FRiend. I useally avoid using profanity, but when it comes to describing obama voters, it comes naturally.
Agreed. They’re trying to see just how much further they can go,bit by bit....incrementalism!! This country wasn’t built in a single day,but by the Grace of God we will take it back in a single day-Election Day,that is.
I have tried to keep my temper and not say bad words but there is just something about Obama, his thugs, and the whole democrat party that make me say awful words but I think the words I call them fit perfectly..I didn't learn most of the words until Obama and thugs came into power.
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Just a reminder: None of the military hospitals will accept mail that is not addressed to a specific service member. Back in 2005 they used to deliver such mail but several wounded heroes received cards with nasty messages inside. So the hospitals decided “any servicemember” mail had to be opened and screened first, but then discovered that so much support mail was received they couldn’t keep up with it, even if ambulatory, recuperating soldiers were “recruited” to assist in the screening. (I met the young soldier referred to in the following link and I can confirm this isn’t an “urban legend”: http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2005/12/
My recommendation, to make an impact, is to send the Deputy Commander named above large manila envelopes filled with UNSEALED Christmas cards. Include a cover letter stating you know that security for the hospital is important so you’re asking him to distribute the cards after he reviews them.
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http://www.bethesda.med.navy.mil/visitor/about_us/deputy_commander.aspx
His background is primarily in pediatrics. Strange that he’s now working with our military.
“Charles W. Callahan Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center”
Whoa...be careful here. Unless it can be shown this individual instituted the policy....don’t go after him. However, IF he did, then he should be relieved of command...a career killer.
If we get a RINO out of the primary, we should all sit home and let Obama win a second term so he can keep entrenching the numbers of these type administrators in our government and military. /s
We haven't chosen a candidate yet.
Until then, we don't have to agree on who to support.
Regards.
Banning the Eucharist, that’s pretty blatant even for Obama. Maybe he figures if Judge Greer can do it in Florida...
Sounds like something Obama would do! lol Having said that, how can they deny family members from bringing a bible in to a loved one? I could understand preventing people from forcing a bible onto someone that didn't want it, but a family member?
What stops him from chucking them all in the trash to save himself the work of reviewing them?
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