Government Retaliates Against Navy Chaplain who Sued over Government Shutdown of Catholic Mass

http://www.thomasmore.org ^ | january 14, 2014

[lowbridge]

Father Ray Leonard, the Catholic Navy Chaplain who sued the Department of Defense and the Navy after he was barred from celebrating Mass at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia during the recent the Government shutdown, is now the target of Government retaliation even though the Department of Justice indicated the day after the lawsuit was filed that he could resume his duties as a Navy Chaplain.

The retaliation involves repeated Government assertions that the employment contract under which Father Leonard was working is no longer “valid”, demands that he must sign a new contract containing several pages of onerous new terms if he wants to be paid and refusals to pay for services he had already performed. 

As a result, the Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, on January 6, 2014 filed an amended complaint in their original federal lawsuit to prevent further retaliation against Father Leonard for exercising his constitutional rights.  The amended complaint added a claim against the government for its retaliation toward Father Leonard which occurred after the filing of the initial complaint.

[AU72]

This came from the top. Hagel not resigning is complicit. The Regime has declared war on the Catholic Church.

[Alex Murphy]

Father Ray Leonard, the Catholic Navy Chaplain who sued the Department of Defense and the Navy after he was barred from celebrating Mass at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia during the recent the Government shutdown, is now the target of Government retaliation even though the Department of Justice indicated the day after the lawsuit was filed that he could resume his duties as a Navy Chaplain. The retaliation involves repeated Government assertions that the employment contract under which Father Leonard was working is no longer “valid”, demands that he must sign a new contract containing several pages of onerous new terms if he wants to be paid and refusals to pay for services he had already performed.

PFL

[353FMG]

The regime has declared war on basic American values.

[MichaelCorleone]

John 15 -

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

[GeronL]

bump

This is not a war against the Catholic Church but anyone who stands against the left and Obama

[pfflier]

Apparently he is a contract employee instead of a commissioned officer. I didn’t know that the military used “rent-a-chaplains”.

[null and void]

The Regime has declared war on the Catholic Church.

No kidding?

Where's the evidence???

[tcrlaf]

The “Chicago Way” gone national. (It is what the sheeple voted for.)

Crack down hard on anyone not going along with the Current Democrat Truth, and make a visible example of them. Anyone else thinking about not going along has to consider what might happen to them, should they follow through.

Just like Nazi Germany in the early 30’s.

[frogjerk]

No kidding?

Where's the evidence???

Open your eyes

[nascarnation]

The Regime has declared war on the Catholic Church.

But what would those devout folks like Pelosi, Sebelius, Biden, Kerry, etc say?

[null and void]

Did I real-l-l-l-l-l-ly NEED a </sarcasm> tag????

[ZULU]

Once more the Marxist Muslim Criminal in the Oval Office strikes.

[BigEdLB]

This came from the top. Hagel not resigning is complicit. The Regime has declared war on the Catholic Church all Churches and Synagogues, and leaving Mosques alone.

[I want the USA back]

So this administration hates Catholics and the military. No surprise there. So they use fascist tactics against their enemies. No surprise there.

[Mrs. Don-o]

bttt

[Iron Munro]

More bullying of Christians from King Obama.

[Ray76]

The muzzie in the Oval Office hates Christianity, hates the West, hates humanity.

[fatima]

Amen.