HUFFINGTON POST BLOGS – Religious Accommodation – A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
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Selected Article Excerpts:
- The five-person panel was made up of three ultra conservative Christians from theLiberty Institute, Family Research Counsel and the Chaplains Alliance for Religious Liberty. They were “balanced” by a retired Jewish Navy Chaplain and MikeyWeinstein, also Jewish, from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
- What is happening to the Military is that the chaplaincy has been taken over by ultra conservative Christians who not only object to these cultural changes, but who see the armed services as a mission for Jesus. While they make up 18 percent of the Force, they have 63 percent of the chaplains. It is these chaplains who want unfettered access to be able to publically ostracize LGB service members, and also proselytize aggressively, without restriction. They are looking to their allies in Congress to aid and abet them.
- What these members of Congress don’t seem to understand, or more likely don’t care about, is that the military chaplaincy is different from ministry in the civilian world. As one chaplain endorser and member of the Forum on the Military Chaplaincy recently stated: