Army says faith-based group can no longer put Bible verses on dog tags after complaint

www.foxnews.com ^ | 12/3/19 | Caleb Park

[Midwesterner53]

Mickey Weinstein has made a career of trying to cleanse Christianity from the military. He is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and fancies himself as the decision maker of what Christians can and can't do in uniform. Mr President, if you read Free Republic or see this story, please intervene again to countermand this order and restore a voluntary effort on the part of service members to show their faith and provide comfort in terrible situations. No one is forced to do anything here, please correct this travesty and tell the Defense Department to ignore Weinstein and his incessant complaining.

[ptsal]

Not a good idea.
Who is the commanding officer?

[Vermont Lt]

So print out another tag and put it with the other two.

Is anyone stopping that? It’s not like it’s hard to do.

[Red Badger]

Mickey Weinstein doesn’t sound like a Christian name................

[Red Badger]

Good idea, just don’t wear it for inspections..................

[antidemoncrat]

The new and improved USS USA. When a snowflake complains, immediately change course.

[Candor7]

Army says faith-based group can no longer put Bible verses on dog tags after complaint>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Alahwahoo Whackbar! ( sarc.)

Must be an Obama POS somewhere in the Army who brought this.

[OpusatFR]

This is voluntary much like the decision to allow beards and religious headgear.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/23/265230702/pentagon-relaxes-uniform-rules-to-allow-religious-headgear

[SkyDancer]

Don’t they have religious preferences already embossed on the tags?

[Skywise]

This is absolute BS and this twit and the military should be sued for bigotry and violation of civil rights.

These aren’t actual military dog tags - theyre licensed products for open purchase. They’re not government instituted nor a government establishment of religion anymore than the US flag on a bible is.

[lastchance]

I know the Constitutional rights of service members are not so clear as the general public. But does the Army have blanket authority for such an action?

[OpusatFR]

The ban on very unobtrusive bible verses would seem discriminatory on its face.

[Hulka]

Indeed. . .the serviceman buys another set of commercially available dog-tags and then engraves like official tags but then on the backside, engraves a bible verse.

[glock rocks]

Operation Shield of Strength

[faithhopecharity]

My bet is PDJT will correct this immediately.

[Hulka]

Yes. To help identify a specific faith the serviceman embraces.

[DEPcom]

Confuse here. Can you wear a third dog tag with the verse on it?

[SkyDancer]

Right. So why can’t they also type like Phil.2:8-13 on them as well?

[fortheDeclaration]

Pure evil!

[Captain Walker]

I imagine I’ll be going against the grain on this, but why not just have another personalized dog tag added to the chain, and leave the government-issued tags alone?

The information on the dog tags is standard from one to the next; the practice of putting Bible quotes on them is relatively new.

If the tags are government-issued (as they are), then why demand that a secular government put a recognition of someone’s religious beliefs on government property?