‘Get in Line’ or ‘Resign’ Admiral Tells Military Chaplain

LifeSite News ^ | 6/20/12 | Jean McCarthy

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WASHINGTON, D.C., June 20, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Although the U.S. Military fight and die to uphold freedom, high-level military chaplains report they are increasingly being denied freedom of conscience and freedom of speech. There is also alarm about the negative effects on troop morale over the undoing of the 237-years’ practice of providing traditional religious support for U.S. soldiers.

“We were promised that we would see no change - very little change,” says Col. Ron Crews, alluding to a two-star officer’s assurance that the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal would not impede the ministry of military chaplains. That promise, he says, has not been kept.

Col. Crews, executive director of Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, was speaking at a panel along with military chaplains and religious freedom activists during the 2012 National Religious Freedom Conference in Washington D.C on May 24.

The panelists agreed that the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and other policies have made it difficult, if not a punishable offense, for military chaplains to read passages of Leviticus, pray aloud in the name of God at a soldier’s funeral, or preside over traditional services.

Col. Crews recounted an interchange in 2010 between Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a military chaplain. While Adm. Mullen was briefing the troops on what the repeal might look like, the chaplain asked if those with “biblical views that homosexuality is a sin [would] still be protected to express those views?”

Adm. Mullen reportedly responded, “Chaplain, if you can’t get in line with this policy, resign your commission.”

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general desk jock dunsel at the pentagon.

it is long past for these pc corporate desk jockey should be retired.

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Hopefully President Romney will ask for Mullen’s resignation first.

Sounds good to me.

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He could start with Mullen and work his way back getting rid of the asskissers who have managed to move up under the black plague.

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ping

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Thanks for the anti-christ policy ping.

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Comrade Mike Mullen?

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Isn’t it time for Admiral Mullen to resign?

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I don’t think the Catholic Chaplains would display Luther’s words. LOL!

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Oh...I dunno. If memory serves John Paul II patched things up with the Lutherans some years ago. Everybody gots hugs all around, and agreed: "by faith alone." I got a little carried away by it all, and wound up married to a Lutheran gal myself.

That quote by the way, was Luther speaking at the Diet of Worms, when he was ordered to recant. I mistakenly cited Wartburg.