Two Baptist chaplains are suing the Veterans Administration for demanding they stop naming “Jesus” in their prayers.
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Freedom in Modern America: Two Baptist chaplains are suing the Veterans Administration for demanding they stop naming “Jesus” in their prayers.
Two Baptist chaplains said they were forced out of a Veterans Affairs chaplain training program after they refused orders to stop quoting the Bible and to stop praying in the name of Jesus. When the men objected to those demands they were subjected to ridicule and harassment that led to one of the chaplains leaving the program and the other being ejected, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday.
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From the press release: From the moment he is handed a possibility of making the first alien contact, Saunders Maxwell decides he will do it, even if doing so takes him through hell and back.
Unfortunately, that is exactly where that journey takes him.
The vision that Zimmerman paints of vibrant human colonies on the Moon, Mars, the asteroids, and beyond, indomitably fighting the harsh lifeless environment of space to build new societies, captures perfectly the emerging space race we see today.
He also captures in Pioneer the heart of the human spirit, willing to push forward no matter the odds, no matter the cost. It is that spirit that will make the exploration of the heavens possible, forever, into the never-ending future.
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Freedom in Modern America: Two Baptist chaplains are suing the Veterans Administration for demanding they stop naming “Jesus” in their prayers.
Two Baptist chaplains said they were forced out of a Veterans Affairs chaplain training program after they refused orders to stop quoting the Bible and to stop praying in the name of Jesus. When the men objected to those demands they were subjected to ridicule and harassment that led to one of the chaplains leaving the program and the other being ejected, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday.
Every July, to celebrate the anniversary of the start of Behind the Black in 2010, I hold a month-long fund-raising campaign to make it possible for me to continue my work here for another year.
This year's fund-raising drive however is more significant in that it is also the 10th anniversary of this website's founding. It is hard to believe, but I have been doing this for a full decade, during which I have written more than 22,000 posts, of which more than 1,000 were essays and almost 2,600 were evening pauses.
This year's fund drive is also more important because of the growing intolerance of free speech and dissent in American culture. Increasingly people who don't like what they read are blatantly acting to blackball sites like mine. I have tried to insulate myself from this tyrannical effort by not depending on Google advertising or cross-posts Facebook or Twitter. Though this prevents them from having a hold on me, it also acts to limit my exposure.
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Bizarre given theres been a lot of problems with the Army becoming so religious, that anyone not openly “believing” was running into serious prejudice and discrimination. Hitting both side of the bigory divide – how thorough of them.
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“Bizarre given theres been a lot of problems with the Army becoming so religious,”……
Except that this is a VA program, Kelly, which is no longer under DoD. That means this is a very different hierarchy than the Army’s, or any military, command structure, …except at only one level, …the WH. Given the number of field grade officers in all services being relieved of command and forced into retirement over the last 3 years, I am wondering about all those complaints I hear, mostly in the MSM, about them thar hurrible intolerant Christians in the military command structure.
Note that the VA has far fewer protections against political influence than the military does below field grade ranks. More active attempts to reduce any level of status of military Christians would naturally start there. That complaints about Christians are voiced is, unfortunately, in the time of Alinsky tactics, little indication that something is really happening. The majority of shoe leather in Republican campaigns is still provided by evangelicals, and seeing FUD about them in many parts of society is hardly unexpected from a journalistic community that agrees so strongly with “progressive” attitudes.
nancy.dietsch@va.gov
Please note that I have no proof that the person whose e-mail address this is has any connection to this story.