Group: ‘Don’t Ask’ Repeal Will Harm Chaplains

[unhappycamper]

Group: ‘Don’t Ask’ Repeal Will Harm Chaplains
April 30, 2010
Stars and Stripes|by Leo Shane III

WASHINGTON -- Conservative groups are predicting tight restrictions on chaplains' religious speech if the military's "don't ask, don't tell" law is overturned, with some evangelical Christian groups contemplating pulling their ministers out of the ranks.

"The approved gospel will be a politically correct gospel," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. "If chaplains are limited in the moral teachings they can present (because of a repeal), you will see orthodox Christian chaplains leaving the military."

But religious leaders within the military and otherwise doubted those predictions.

Air Force Chief of Chaplains Maj. Gen. Cecil Richardson said he thinks a repeal will be a "difficult transition" but "I don't know a single chaplain who want to get out because of that issue."

Richardson said he sent out a guidance on the "don't ask, don't tell" controversy earlier this year, which stated "there will be loud voices on this issue, don't let them be yours." He hopes the politics of the repeal debate doesn't distract from the ministry at hand.

[RKP5637]

1. Tony Perkins, leader of force-fed institutionalized indoctrination and regimentation.

Let not one free thought escape. Individuals like this are so grotesque and such dinosaurs. It's all about mind control, power and money.

[Webster Green]

2. "You will see orthodox Christian chaplains leaving the military."

Good riddance. Buh-bye assholes.

[sarge43]

3. Great. Padre, don't let the gate hit your.......oops, too late. n/t

[Iggo]

5. Yeah. So what?

I'm sure when they let blacks serve, a bunch of racists left the military. So what?

[donco6]

4. Odd - lots of Christians don't have a problem with it at all.

From what people say here, anyway. Are we down to protecting specific *sects* of Christianity now? Some of these sects are wanting "special rights" over the rest of them? Interesting.

[sui generis]

6. and DADT doesn't harm anyone, I guess.

Fine - conservative evangelicals shouldn't be in the fucking army anyway.

But if they want to stay there, the only thing scarier than a bible beating christian mullah with firearms and combat training is one of us pissed off queers with firearms and combat training ready to drop some smackdown on their holier-than-thou asses, and not the good kind of smackdown.

[EFerrari]

7. Good! Maybe they should switch to peddling snake oil.