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you are embarrassing yourself!
figure out what you are really afraid of!
(name withheld)
Response from MRFF Advisory Board Member Mike Farrell
On Apr 24, 2020, at 7:48 PM, Mike wrote:
Hi (name withheld),
Sorry, you misunderstand. And you suggest we’re embarrassing ourselves?
You see, it’s not a public forum; it’s the commander’s page and it carries with it the imprimatur of the U.S. Government. For that reason, chaplains cannot use if for proselytizing. There is a separate page for chaplains to use for that purpose.
As regards what one “is really afraid of,” you might do some self-searching.
You see, we agree that military personnel have every right to pray. We have no objection to prayer. We object to inappropriate proselytizing. Chaplains have a face book page wherein they can do all the praying and lecturing and teaching and enlightening they’d like. But that’s a separate page from that of the unit leader or commanding officer. That page may not be used to promote one particular belief system over others because it amounts to a government endorsement of a particular faith and violates the separation of church and state.
Mike Farrell
(MRFF Board of Advisors)
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