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Police chaplains told not to use 'Jesus' in official prayers
Charlotte Observer ^ | Jun 20, 2012 | Michael Gordon

Posted on 06/22/2012 9:23:32 AM PDT by Brown Deer

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1 posted on 06/22/2012 9:23:37 AM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Brown Deer

Sounds like something satan would do.


2 posted on 06/22/2012 9:25:47 AM PDT by Hoodat (Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God. -Psalm 55:19-)
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To: Brown Deer

Sue them for violation of civil rights.


3 posted on 06/22/2012 9:25:52 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Brown Deer

Be very careful military Pastors - there are serious salvation issues here.


4 posted on 06/22/2012 9:27:02 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Brown Deer

How about Moses? Or David? What about Mo?


5 posted on 06/22/2012 9:28:31 AM PDT by EyeGuy (Armed, judgmental, fiscally responsible heterosexual.)
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To: Brown Deer

allah and Jehovah names are also banned, eh?

these pC jerkoffs should tell muslims to pray without using the name allah... double dare them


6 posted on 06/22/2012 9:29:24 AM PDT by silverleaf (Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell)
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To: Brown Deer

I wonder how many of those who signed the Mecklenburg Resolution were muslims?


7 posted on 06/22/2012 9:30:21 AM PDT by Terry Mross (To My Liberal Kinfolk: Don't call, email or write until you've gotten your brain fixed.)
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To: Brown Deer

Can’t mention the name Jesus in a prayer?

Pretty soon chaplians won’t be able to even mention Jesus at all. And if a chaplain dares to take a Biblical stance on homosexuality?

They’ll be kicked out or court martialed.


8 posted on 06/22/2012 9:30:57 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Brown Deer

How about Christ? As in “though Christ our Lord. Amen.”


9 posted on 06/22/2012 9:33:57 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Brown Deer

Why then when muslims pray they are told not to use the word “Allah” when referring to their god? Allah is the name of their god. Yet they can pray using that specific name.

I am so sick of this. It is time to defy these assinine orders and if they fire them, they ought to sue. Trying to be this kind of “respectful” is not allowing the free exercise of religion of the Christian, as they cannot even appeal to our Lord in His proper name. And they ought to sue the damn pants off the department and make an example of them so that all the other places thinking about restricting the exercise of a CHRISTIAN PASTOR NOT TO PRAY IN HIS GOD’S NAME, will not want ot have a lawsuit and lose millions of dollars for wrongful termination and a person’s freedom of religion.

It is time we have to take the gloves off and fight this PC bullsh1t with all our strength. These people are passive aggressively tromping over our rights of freedom of religion. If a Christian Pastor can’t use the name of His God in a prayer, a lawsuit and damages are required. And make it big to scare anyone else from attempting this.

The potential for some to be offended does not allow a business to not allow a person’s freedom of religion, especially when that person is employed for their religious duties. You can be a pastor and pray, just don’t mention the name of your God. No, that’s over the line. These people won’t change unless they lose big in court.


10 posted on 06/22/2012 9:35:02 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: silverleaf

This has one solution and it is 100% up to people of faith to enact it.

The nanosecond that a muslim invokes Allah or whatever other invokes their deity at any governmental function in an official capacity, get up, walk out and file multiple lawsuits. Claim violation of ‘church and state’ and civil rights laws, along with PTSD, pain, suffering et all.

Our refusal to use the tools in the tool box results in Jesus being banned while Allah tides high.

Your choice folks. Are you a Christian or a Dhimmi?


11 posted on 06/22/2012 9:35:07 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/okla-police-captain-transfered-for-refusing-to-attend-muslim-event/

sadly, “we” are beyond this

muslim = OK
Christian = might hurt somebody’s feelings


12 posted on 06/22/2012 9:39:57 AM PDT by silverleaf (Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell)
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To: silverleaf

No “we” aren’t, because enough people haven’t done anything but sit on their hands when confronted personally with it. It has gotten nowhere near the supreme court.


13 posted on 06/22/2012 9:45:03 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Brown Deer

But if they want to say “Allah akbar”, that would be just fine.


14 posted on 06/22/2012 9:45:50 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Brown Deer
“Jesus is all I’ve got for a blessing,” said Sartain, pastor of Horizon Christian Fellowship in west Charlotte. “Now I’ve got to find a balance. I want to serve the officers and their families. I don’t want to jam my beliefs down anybody’s throat. But I won’t deny Jesus.”

Wow! Gives new meaning to the Great Commission. Shows this pastor really believes in the life changing properties of Christ-NOT!

15 posted on 06/22/2012 9:49:25 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: Brown Deer

Modern Prayer:

Oh, to that wonderful notion of belief, we throw these
affirmations of that uneluctable thing we call faith,
allow these graduates to not cease physically during their
work, allow their families to grow/reproduce/go to another
dimension, without any undesired interference.

We affirm that these men/women/mosaic phenotypes carry out
the desires of our own laws, until those laws are changed
due to bribes, political considerations, dysfunctional
psychosocial reason, and lies.

To that great notion, we offer the highest cogitations of
our infinite minds (soon to be dust).

So be it. So be it.
So beat it, beat it, beat it.*

*To add some “relevancy” to the “prayer” the last sentence
has to be sung to the tune of Michael Jacksons song of the
same name.


16 posted on 06/22/2012 9:50:30 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Brown Deer

Hummmmm. How did Peter and John respond when the leaders of the Sanhedrin ordered them not to speak in Jesus’ name?


17 posted on 06/22/2012 9:56:57 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Brown Deer
2 Timothy 4:5

"Here I stand. I can do no other."
18 posted on 06/22/2012 10:07:01 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Oratam

I would pray how I want to pray.

The State is not permitted to dictate prayers to Americans and Christians are not permitted to deny Jesus upon the orders of anti-Christs, even if a commie judge seys so.


19 posted on 06/22/2012 10:07:13 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Brown Deer

A prayer is not a ceremonial thing. Its a prayer. If you ask me to pray, you get what you get. You asked me to talk to God on your behalf, you don’t get to tell me how to do it.


20 posted on 06/22/2012 10:14:20 AM PDT by marron
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