Christian Coalition lauds * for halting religious bias in military!

[Bluebear]

To: National Desk

Contact: Michele Combs, Director of Communication for the Christian Coalition, 202-479-6900, [email protected]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Christian Coalition of America commends President George W. Bush for ensuring that military chaplains will once again be able to pray at all times in the name of Jesus, a practice which has been stifled by a politically-correct military establishment for a number of years. Congressman Walter Jones, (R-NC), is also to be commended for his hard work in working out the deal between the White House and the United States Congress. Some 75 Members of the House and Senate signed a letter to the President written by Congressman Jones urging him to issue an Executive Order.

The Honorable Claude Allen, the White House Domestic Policy Advisor, assured Congressman Jones that President Bush would indeed speak to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about this issue and the congressman agreed that this religious discrimination problem could be corrected without an additional executive order issued by the President.

The President of the Christian Coalition of America, Roberta Combs said, "Americans were surprised to learn last summer that the U.S. Air Force was about to issue unconstitutional guidelines which would have written into policy religious discrimination against evangelical and Catholic chaplains who wanted to pray in the name of Jesus. Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt's discrimination case and the religious discrimination case in the Army's 10th Mountain Division, now in Iraq, have shown us that religious discrimination in the U.S. military is rampant. I thank President Bush, a man of great religious faith, for ensuring that such discrimination will no longer be able to continue. Our brave men and women serving all over the world, many in harm's way, deserve a discrimination-free atmosphere when it comes to their faith."

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[misternormal]

1. Of Course !!!

They will thank anyone for stopping what THEY perceive as discrimination against THEM, while it goes on and on against other religions.

What a F**king double standard.

[rooboy]

2. Captain James Yee wouldn't agree. n/t

[classof56]

3. Excuse me, but Good God!

Unconstitutional guidelines which would have written policy religious discrimination against evangelical and Catholic chaplains who wanted to pray in the name of Jesus? Religious discrimination in the U.S. military is rampant? Our brave men and women serving all over the world...deserve a discrmination-free atmosphere when it comes to their faith?

I repeat--Good God!

If Jesus had a grave, I swear he'd be turning over in it.

Tired Old Cynic

[msongs]

4. non christian soldiers go to hell when they die so why waste time

being concerned with them anyway? That's what I was taught in the baptist church about ALL
non christians no matter how good they are/were.Even Hitler is in heaven if he repented before
he died.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/dean2008.htm

[Mike Nelson]

5. well, that's a relief...

btw, what were most troops praying to... until now?

[Qanisqineq]

6. oh please

Several times a week I hear about christianity being shoved down my husband's throat. He is always filling out questionnaires on religion, too. He puts smart ass answers like his religion is satanism, he's a druid, he's wiccan, he's a Jedi, etc. -- anything to get a rise out of the chaplain and whomever else reads them. When the questionnaire asks how they can help him with his religion, he'll either put a smart ass answer or write: "leave me the hell alone!"

Yeah, there is religious discrimination -- DISCRIMINATION AGAINST OTHER RELIGIONS AND ATHEISTS