AIR FORCE: CHRISTIANS' RELIGIOUS SPEECH NOT LEGALLY PROTECTED RIGHT

breitbart.com ^ | March 16, 2014 | KEN KLUKOWSKI

[ilovesarah2012]

Christians in the U.S. military are being told they must forfeit their First Amendment rights. Bible verses are being erased from cadets’ personal dorm-room white boards, and military lawyers claim that legal protections for religion only pertain to matters such as clothing and growing beards but do not extend to any religious expression such as talking about one's faith or posting a Bible verse.

Last year Breitbart News broke the story of a campaign by anti-Christian extremists to suppress traditional Christian expression within the U.S. military. There were conflicting stories regarding the possible court martial of service members who share the gospel of Jesus Christ and confirmed reports of military chaplains being officially censored, as well as Bibles temporarily banned from the Walter Reed military hospital.

After these stories went viral on the Internet, Republicans in Congress launched an investigation, then introduced legislation to specify that religious expression is a protected right for men and women serving in uniform. Although President Obama originally threatened to veto the legislation, those protections were signed into law in December 2013.

Now these new protections are being put to their first test. Military officers at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs are saying that the Obama-Hagel Pentagon does not regard these new protections as encompassing religious speech or writing. As such, cadets are not allowed to post Bible verses on their personal white boards in their dorm rooms.

[ronnie raygun]

An essential foundation to the safety of our nation has been deliberatley compromised by traitors who wear friendly masks and who say they are fighting for the middleclass while they kill the economy, say they are for the middleclass while they kill your healthcare and replace it with a deliberate empty program, say they are for the middleclass while cheap heroin floods our towns and villages killing our kids. We dont need to be in an actual war to be at war we are being flanked at everyturn and we sit and watch like a bad tv movie

[onedoug]

The Honor Codes in force at all of the service academies - "We will not lie, cheat, nor steal, nor tolerate those among us who do" - became inoperative the moment the first known homosexual was allowed to remain part of the Corps.

The Russians have demonstrated soebarkah to be a paper tiger. Along with Hagel and Kerry "reporting for duty", admirals and generals fired en masse, tradition is being stripped from our military. Even the Marines are forced into some type of bizzare combat experiment with up to 25% women, which I can already say from my own experiences in combat, it ain't gonna work.

Take God out of it and we're gonners. Which is exactly what has happened.

[ConorMacNessa]

The most recent event is the posting of a verse from the Bible on a whiteboard outside of a Cadet's room. I presume every Cadet has such a whiteboard. I wonder if any other Cadets are posting any statements of substance on their whiteboards. I would suspect that they have.

If so, and if any of the other posts are allowed to stand, the AFA has permitted a forum to arise, and the Free Speech Clause of the 1st Amendment attaches.

It's protected speech. That's all that matters.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Forward the Light Brigade]

They erased verses from the Koran as well. As a blow in this war on religious people—They should put in more quotes from—The Book of Mormon—The saying of the Buddah, Confusious, The religios writing of Washington, Patton, and Lincoln and others. Will they erase them too?

[Da Coyote]

As soon as a few key military bone up on the Constitution, they will know what to do.

Ecomcon will be successful this time.

[Dead Dog]

We are not defined by our government

[P-Marlowe]

Did they erase any quotes from Barrack “The Messiah” Obama?

How about Marx, Lennin, or Richard Dawkins?

[savagesusie]

Me either. It is on purpose....it is exactly the type of people who formed the Samurai and the homosexual Brownshirts-—Godless people who had no trouble killing their own people, especially women and children.

Machiavelli stated that Virtue was essential to promote in militaries because of the power and the “corruption” that is easy where power exists. Zero forced “Pride” in Vice to destroy our military.....all Cultural Marxists know that to destroy a country-—you promote Vice and perversions (irrationality) in the children/schools/culture/media (done). They have been flipping Good and Evil for decades.

[jsanders2001]

> There will soon be nothing left of America.

You’re looking at it all wrong. What 0 has done is making more and more people go to church, more grassroot conservatives (regular old guys who aren’t attorneys) get into politics and defeat the incumbents, and mobilized a nationwide movement to protect our rights and freedoms plus teach our children about the founding fathers and the Constitution. This is going to come bak to bite the progressives, liberals, and NWO lovers in the a$$ big time in the near future...

[Major Matt Mason]

Although President Obama originally threatened to veto the legislation, those protections were signed into law in December 2013.

Obama's veto would have been him being truthful. But, as we've come to know, his words and signature are meaningless.

[sheik yerbouty]

No, their gods are either 0bama aand/or Mohammed, the pedophile..

[Psalm 144]

May God reward the United States with all it has earned.

May God have mercy on America, and Americans.

[WyCoKsRepublican]

I recall in Navy Boot Camp (San Diego) in 1987, recruits were encouraged to say a prayer after we were in our racks. One of us would start the Lord’s Prayer, and others would join in. Those were better times for sure. In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, I rest my case. The Great OZ has spoken.

[Tzimisce]

...is this the same military that let the Fort Hood shooter make all those speeches?

[Wpin]

You are foolish sir, they destroyed America...it is gone, dead while you gloated foolishly about some phone election in the future..

[GeronL]

Once the homo agenda was accepted throwing out Christians was inevitable

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The homosexual religion is ok, though.

[Jane Long]

But Obama said he’s a Christian...

He also said you could keep your doctor.

[cherry]

don't we all love these military elitist wimps?...

..drag a pension thru a trailor park and this is what you get..

..worthless, characterless,shallow wannabees with not an original thought in their entire beings...

[jsanders2001]

> You are foolish sir, they destroyed America...it is gone, dead while you gloated foolishly about some phone election in the future..

your opinion; not mine. There are things happenin in the background that are going to make a difference. Changes are a’comin’’.