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Atheist Group Wants to Throw Air Force Commander 'Behind Prison Bars' for His Christian Faith
CBN News ^ | 08-16-2018 | Steve Warren

Posted on 08/16/2018 10:33:39 AM PDT by detective

Shortened title.

Full title: Military Atheist Group Wants to Throw Air Force Commander 'Behind Prison Bars' for His Christian Faith

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) sent a formal complaint this week to Defense Secretary James Mattis calling for an investigation of Brig. Gen. E. John Teichert, a Christian and the newly installed commander of the 412 Test Wing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The group is furious at Teichert for posting links to articles, a Christmas video, and scriptures on his personal website called Prayer at Lunchtime for the United States. The website also has a list of prayer requests.

The MRFF says the website is in violation Air Force and Defense Department rules about religious proselytizing.

(Excerpt) Read more at 1.cbn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: airforce; antichristianbigotry; atheists; berniesanders; christian; ejohnteichert; jamesmattis; joecrowley; mrff; newyork; ocasiocortez; teichert; vermont
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Attacks on Christians continue.
1 posted on 08/16/2018 10:33:39 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Religious activities of Government employees outside the workplace are protected by the 1st Amendment.


2 posted on 08/16/2018 10:36:52 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: Rebelbase

I believe the UCMJ covers this! These freaks need to be given the boot post haste!


3 posted on 08/16/2018 10:37:39 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: detective

How long will the American people put up with this? We can get rid of corrupt judges and godless communist politicians. You can’t give an inch with these lunatics and it’s time to push back.


4 posted on 08/16/2018 10:37:47 AM PDT by centurion316 (Back90 from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
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To: detective

“Atheist Group Wants to Throw Air Force Commander ‘Behind Prison Bars’ for His Christian Faith”

Translation:

Atheist Group Wants to Throw Air Force Commander ‘To the Lions’ for His Christian Faith


5 posted on 08/16/2018 10:38:35 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: detective

“The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you...”


6 posted on 08/16/2018 10:38:42 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Rebelbase

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So are those ‘inside’ the workplace.


7 posted on 08/16/2018 10:39:07 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: detective

Next time the left takes Congress and the White House, it will be open season on Christians in public life. Enjoy the current peace.


8 posted on 08/16/2018 10:39:45 AM PDT by lurk
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To: detective

Attacking his personal website?


9 posted on 08/16/2018 10:41:39 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: detective

Play Georgie’s correction of the Fraud’s “muslim faith” to “Christian faith” and tell the leftist freaks we’ll be happy to talk about this with them.


10 posted on 08/16/2018 10:41:43 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: detective

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Religious proselytizing is “free exercise thereof.”

The military does not exist outside of the constitution.


11 posted on 08/16/2018 10:42:13 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: detective
When I was a kid (mid 1950s) I went to public school for the 1st and 2nd grade.While there each day was started with The Lord's Prayer (the Protestant version).Being a Catholic I was taught that I should stay silent when they got to "for thine is the Kingdom..."

There were no lawsuits,no protests,no punishment involved.If a uniformed member of the Armed Forces wishes to ignore religious things they encounter while serving that's fine.

But these atheist pigs don't realize that it's freedom *of* religion,not freedom *from* religion.

12 posted on 08/16/2018 10:44:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: Rebelbase

not just outside the workplace- also inside the workplace:

Government Employees

Government employees are protected by both Title VII and the United States Constitution against religious discrimination. Public employees do not forfeit their First Amendment rights upon entering the public workplace. Therefore, the religious freedom of government employees has the additional protection of the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. This chapter explains how government employees are protected by the First Amendment above and beyond the protection they have from Title VII.

Therefore, religious speech of government employees will always be protected so long as it does not significantly reduce efficiency in the workplace, and so long as it will not be attributed to the government employer.

Q: As A Government Employee, Can I Advertise Events At My Church On The Bulletin Board At Work?

A: If a government employer allows employees to post non-work related material around the office, they cannot prohibit the posting of religious material.

Q: Doesn’t Religious Speech By Government Employees Violate The “Separation Between Church And State?”

A : The oft cited phrase “separation between church and state” is found nowhere in the Constitution. This phrase has been misused by many in this country to mislead people and trick them into believing that the government can have absolutely nothing to do with religion. The truth is that the Constitution only prohibits the establishment of religion through the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

http://www.afge2361.org/Representation/religious%20rights%20in%20workplace.htm


13 posted on 08/16/2018 10:45:34 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: detective

Atheists are really brave during peace time. During WWII the saying was “There are no atheists in foxholes”.


14 posted on 08/16/2018 10:46:18 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: detective

They are irrelevant. Ignore them.


15 posted on 08/16/2018 10:46:37 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: BeauBo

It is not his faith that people have objections too - It is pushing it on others.


16 posted on 08/16/2018 10:46:51 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar
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To: detective

They may choose to ignore him and we them.


17 posted on 08/16/2018 10:47:58 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: centurion316

The left is counting on us to be friendly in Mister Rogers Neighborhood with all our community friends and our new friends the aliens and transgenders and atheists and Antifa masked thugs.

We have so much to learn together, such as the line where crossing it will bring civil war from law abiding conservatives who do no harm to them and just want to protect our families and our country’s great way of life.

We disagreed respectfully with Obama for 8 years. Once Trump was legally duly elected as President, the other side went for anarchy, hate, Antifa violence, Women’s March cars on fire and boycotts against the right.

For everyone’s sake let’s hope and pray they simmer down before it gets worse.


18 posted on 08/16/2018 10:50:24 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: detective

Atheists were alright with ‘former’ muslim Barack Obama giving Osama Bin Laden a taxpayer funded Islam funeral rite.


19 posted on 08/16/2018 10:50:25 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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Military religious freedom foundation????

Huge oxymoron and they don’t even see it


20 posted on 08/16/2018 10:51:57 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday!!!)
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