Walter Reed Military Hospital Bans Bibles & Religious Materials — Then Overturns Policy
- Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:42am by
Billy Hallowell
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By many accounts, anti-faith sentiment has been working its way into the U.S. military this year. While the examples are anecdotal, they are collectively creating some angst in religious circles.
Atheists are battling over a cross that was placed at Camp Pendleton in California, there is a continued push for non-believing chaplains, a cross has been removed from an interfaith military chapel in Afghanistan and the U.S. Air Force Academy backed out of a toy drive (because it’s sponsored by a Christian group). And these are just a few of the examples.
Now, those who are worried about the continued erosion of faith and values in the U.S. military have another example to add to their roster. Fox News’ Todd Starnes is reporting that the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center implemented a policy that prevented family members of wounded military soldiers from bringing Bibles and other religious materials to their loved ones.
The policy was apparently set in a memorandum from the medical center’s commander, Chief of Staff C.W. Callahan. On September 14, the guidelines were issued for “wounded, ill, and injured partners in care.” It states, “No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading material, and/or artifacts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.”
This policy — which led Rep. Steve King (R-IA) to give an impassioned speech on the House floor asking the president to intervene — has now been overturned. But the fact that it was implemented in the first place only adds fuel to the fire when it comes to questions about the military’s take on faith.
Watch King discuss the military’s handing of faith issues, below:
In an interview with Fox News & Commentary, King said, “The President of the United States should address this and should excoriate the people who brought about this policy and the individual who brought it about should be dismissed from the United States Military.” He continued:
“That means you can’t bring in a Bible and read from it when you visit your son or your daughter, perhaps – or your wife or husband. It means a priest that might be coming in to visit someone on their death bed couldn’t bring in the Eucharist, couldn’t offer Last Rites. This is the most outrageous affront.”
Sandy Dean, a public affairs official for Walter Reed, says that the policy will be re-written to “articulate” the center’s “initial intention which was to respect religious and cultural practices of our patients.” Dean claims that there was never an intent to prevent family members from providing religious materials to patients.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (AP)
Still, many people see these explanations as excuses. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, is joining King in asking for whoever was responsible for the memo to be fired.
“It cannot be allowed to stand. It must be rescinded and the people responsible for perpetrating it should be fired,” Land said. “They claim to be tolerant but this is as intolerant as you can be – to not allow wounded soldiers to have religious artifacts.”
It will be interesting to see how the medical center clarifies its original intention.
(H/T: Fox News Radio via Gateway Pundit)
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garyM
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:19pmYou democrat supporting gay and Bud lite people gonna love Sharia Law as much as the liberated women!
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:43pmThe only instances when believers are permitted to disobey authority: (1) the orders are immoral, (2) the orders directly violate the Word of God.
Christians have every right to pray and read their Bibles when visiting the sick. Chief of Staff C.W. Callahan, you are WRONG, sir. Your order violates the Constitutional rights of American citizens.
Staff of Walter Reed – shame on you for not unanimously rejecting his order.
Examples:
Exodus 1:17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.
Daniel 6:13 Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the decree you put in writing. He still prays three times a day.”
Acts 4:18-20 Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John replied, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges! As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
Report Post »newrepublic7
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:21pmYes! Let’s NOT allow our soldiers the ability to talk to GOD, when they are sick or dying!
Report Post »At some point folks this becomes “Sick Evil People” that need to be removed from power over the rest of us.
piecolorado
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:33pmI suspect they will say that they didn‘t want people giving religious items to OTHER patients who they don’t know. I can see a rule that people aren‘t going around trying to convert strangers who are stuck in a bed and can’t get away from you. That’s not what the policy said, but I suspect that’s what they were trying to outlaw. It’s the only thing I can think of. If they have email evidence supporting that that is what they were trying to ban, then I don’t think they should be fired for writing it poorly. Otherwise, fire them for stealing the rights of soldiers when they’re are their weakest.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:51pmSo the blaze will follow fox news and report on the congressman’s interpretation of the policy rather than actually reading the memo and understanding the intention. As with other military hospital Walter Reed has little or no private rooms and probably a number of wards. The policy is intended to prevent intrusions on other patients by visitors who might bring religious materials to distribute to patients who don’t want to be bothered or want the materials, or be disturbed by overt religious symbols or activities. Interesting that neither the Congressman, nor fox, nor the blaze seemed to have contacted the navy regarding the intent of the policy and how it was to be applied. All in all a lot to do about nothing.
Report Post »FNTM
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:11pmChief of Staff C.W. Callahan, would you make the same rule regarding the Koran? Could you?
Report Post »firstHat
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:37pm@JRook
Report Post »Would you like to either quote or add a link to information supporting your interpretation of the memo? Otherwise you leave us to decide to accept your interpretation over those offered by the congressman and other interested parties.
cessna152
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 4:04pmYes and these freaking A-holes recently passed (Senate) the right for Military to have sex with animals! WTF is going on… sitting idly by does not work anymore as these traitors and they will not stop until we are utterly destroyed. I have passed my point of “tolerance” for these freaking Communists…Yes, communists and they are the enemy.
Report Post »Read the Declaration of Independence…. what does it say?
Blackhawk1
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 4:39pmJRook
Here is an apology from their website. Looks like another Liberal was caught trying manipulate Military policy and bow to the PC crap.No wonder the Military despises liberals.
Thank you for your interest in the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Report Post »We apologize for any confusion that resulted from our policy. In no way was the instruction meant to prohibit family members from providing religious items to their love ones. The intent of the instruction was to respect the religious and cultural practices of all of our patients. We are drafting a new instruction that will clearly articulate our respect for religious and cultural practices of all of our patients and families.
JRook
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 5:04pm@firstHat A) The memo is available, go find it and read it for yourself. Don‘t take anyone’s read on it. B) The significantly number of other items in the memo and the use of the word distribute provide insight into their intent. The notion that the President took the time to tell the head of the Navy what to write in the memo as suggested by some here is laughable. I’m sure the head of the Navy has nothing better to do than push an anti-christian agenda or restrict religious freedoms. But that is what we do in this country we use an ideological filter in terms of how things are regarded, reported and interpreted. If for no other reason look at the sources of the controversy, which speaks volumes.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 5:09pm@Blackhawk1 Right Champ, exactly what I said their intent probably was. Try and read something completely and understand what is being said before you agree or disagree with it. My case in point. I for one would love to see an anti-solicitation regulation in my town as we seem to be on a church of ladder day saints training route for new spreaders of the word.
Report Post »Tim Law
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 5:13pmThis is only part of the problem, the plan is to remove GOD and the U.S. Constitution from the live’s of the American people. The Senate passed Bill s .1867 Goggle Bill s . 1867 if it pass‘s Congress and Obama sign’s it, the Bill Of Rights is history. I suggest people read about this, it is more than scary, it‘s Evil at it’s worst. It’s hidden in the Dept. of Defense budget. I read the whole thing a lot of good things for our soldier’s, spending cut’s, ect… The problem is the Government will be able to arrest us and jail us without any proof of anything, and hold us for as long as they want to. Spend a little time and see the future. And then ask yourself’s. Why is the news media of all sorts not reporting on this, why hasn’t the Blaze reported anything about this?
Report Post »Emrys
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 5:37pm“initial intention which was to respect religious and cultural practices of our patients.” Bull! It was intended to do the exact opposite.
Report Post »ralahinn1
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 5:57pmIf they wouldn’t drag us into it, I wish the Dems and Libs would get some Sharia Law. They need to be schooled, but I don’t want it
Report Post »Grey Eagle
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 7:41pmYup, your trusty Dems and Obama at work stepping on the rights of Christians, Catholics, and Jews as usual.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:06pm@newrepublic7
Report Post »Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:21pm
Yes! Let’s NOT allow our soldiers the ability to talk to GOD, when they are sick or dying!
At some point folks this becomes “Sick Evil People” that need to be removed from power over the rest of us
***
To ascertain when, you use the SAME PROCESS, as is used for determining when the FETUS becomes AN UNBORN HUMAN BEING!!!! (In the eyes of the radical left, NOT UNTIL LONG AFTER THIS EXPERIMENT IN FREEDOM IS COMPLETELY ABORTED!
NewDaddy2011
Posted on December 6, 2011 at 11:14amJRook
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 5:09pm
@Blackhawk1 Right Champ, exactly what I said their intent probably was. Try and read something completely and understand what is being said before you agree or disagree with it. My case in point. I for one would love to see an anti-solicitation regulation in my town as we seem to be on a church of ladder day saints training route for new spreaders of the word.
If you don’t like people sharing their beliefs you can always move to communist China. They have anti-prosolyting(sp?) laws in full force over there. I for one welcome anyone to share their beliefs with me. I simply reserve the right to believe or not as I see fit.
Report Post »defiant1
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 6:10amThe only way sharia law will ever rule in America is when the mooselems rule and all Christians are dead!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:19pmRemember — fundamental transformation of the United States of America; and one of the core tradirtional facilities is the armed forces, hence the need to rid them of all aspect of God, and non state sanctioned religion; weaken them by massive, PC junkheap policies on top of policies set to make them disgusted and leave, break them into compliance, or into open and active revolt.
The assaults will become more open, hostile and blatant.
There is a purge of all non-state religous bodies coming soon if the storm is not redirected soon; and the blood will be massive and fierce.
Report Post »WarSquid
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:36pmThis started while I was still active duty. They began to remove anything linked to “Tradition” from our daily lives. The Navy is built on tradition and values from the days of Wooden Ships and Sails. If they can stop those traditions from passing to one generation of folks, thay can destroy the structure of pride and knowledge that comes from it. What most folks see as “hazing” is actually a lot of traditional values being taught through stress and pain. Been there, did that, understand the value of the lesson. The people who complain about it, are the ones who failed the test and cannot be relied upon when the going gets tough. Life can be tough and you sometimes need a reference point to measure yourself against. Ask a SEAL what was the toughest part of his career and it will probably be the time he spent training to become a SEAL. The whiners will soon rule the world and I won’t feel inclined to help them when they get in too deep.
Report Post »palerider54
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:47pmI completely agree Snow, even though I have read the end of the book and know we will win, we still must stand firm in our beliefs. We should never be ashamed of spreading the good news, the Gospel message.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:51pm@WarSquid, amen! Today’s Navy is definitely NOT the same navy that my Daddy served in. He was a retired CPO, God bless him, and he‘s probably turning over in his grave at what’s being done to his beloved armed forces.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 7:20pmWhen I joined the Army in 1960 you had a pocket sized bible or torah issued to you and it was displayed in your foot locker during inspections. Attendance at chapel was encouraged and Sunday had Protestant, Catholic and Jewish services on Saturday – all in the same church.
Political correctness has become a farce. One person trying to outdo the other and they are getting uridiculous. I’ll bet the COL never served in combat and prayed to God that he would survive.
OMG
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:30pmre : purge of ALL (emphasis added) NON STATE…
Report Post »****
It was probably in the last contract the administration signed with Red China to get them to buy our bonds, SO WHEN THEY CALL IN THE DEBT, THE NEW TERRITORY THEY’LL OWN WILL ALREADY BE IN COMPLIANCE!
garyM
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:18pmBy the way I’m sure when they get past the next election. they’ll replace the Bible with the Quron after they pass sharia law, you liberated democratic women are gonna love that!
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:17pmIt scares me that the higher-ups in the military are purposely turning our military men and women into pariahs. It scares me to death.
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:25pmWe give Korans to the terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, but we won’t allow anyone to give our own wooded a bible?
Report Post »garyM
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:44pmIt is only the blind who can’t see that the democrats are evil!
Report Post »gwnail
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:52pmAnd homosexuals!
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:49pmWith family serving, I sometimes think, “All I can do is pray!” THEN REALIZE ALL I NEED TO DO IS PRAY! GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD!
Report Post »For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor ANY OTHER CREATURE, shall be able TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD, WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS, OUR LORD!
Wow! Those are some promises! (Rom 8: 38 & 39)
ginger100
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:16pmI imagine this is what Germany went thru before WW 2. That would be World War 2 for all you OWS punks who took up basket weaving in college rather than a real history class.
Report Post »Dan_o
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:31pmBingo.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:47pmor Under Water Bubble Blowing
Report Post »soldier1391
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:34pmActually, they were handing the Bible out to soldiers. On the Nazi’s belt buckles? “Gott mit uns”, which means “god with us”. Hitler was a Christian.
Report Post »TC
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:56pm@Soldier 1931…Nice try…. “Hitler was a Christian”. Your a bigger fool than your comment if you really believe that! He is burning in Hell with Stalin and the rest of the God/Jesus haters.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:52pmThey probably think it was a Typo and you actually mean someone who retired from WWE!
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on December 6, 2011 at 12:25amSoldier — Hitler was baptized a Catholic Christian but was hardly a faithful one. He did not practice the Christian faith, rather he was very much into the occult. Himmler was right there with him on the occult practice w/his SS. Their occult practices also included drawing heavily fm Teutonic myth.
Hitler’s target after wiping out the Jews and Slavs was to go after the Church. Catholic priests and Lutheran pastors were all incarcerated and murdered in the concentration camps.
Do a little more research, even if it’s just on the History Channel, and you will find more than ample information abt Hitler’s anti-Christian bent.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:16pmThat was a whoops…we got an election coming up, let’s not move to fast here, we can do this my second term as I bring this country down and God won’t help this Godless country who remained silent after they were ignorant enough to pick a Godless Spineless President the second time!
Report Post »garyM
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:32pm@RodT82721
Report Post »I made my comment and then read yours, seems we had the same thought! Wonder where that came from?
Dan_o
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:36pmI agree with the backpedaling part, but God sets up governments and figureheads and takes them down for His glory and His purpose.
Regardless of the terrible state of our country, if we’re not being persecuted in some way as Christian individuals, we are not doing what the Lord commanded.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:07pmIt was not only said that the Russians were speaking of it but reportedly..so was Egypt.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jhx_2TqffE
1947
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:16pmNext thing we‘ll hear is that unless your MUSLIM Walter Reed can’t take care of you…..
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:32pmposted this in the wrong spot …this is about the Egyptians having voiced the same as the Russians..And do remember that the Russia and China are standing behind Iran..Also…please don’t worry..If you put your faith in God…no one is going to save Israel but Jesus./God ..It is already written that God will gather all nations to go against her…they will have no doubt about Jesus then..they will mourn because they will realize that they pierced their own God…but in the long run…only 1/3 will survive into the thousand year reign… God says to “pray for the peace of Israel” that is what we are commanded to do.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jhx_2TqffE
Mil Mom
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:58pmI heard they’re closing Walter Reed this summer and sending everyone to Bethesday (Budget Restraints) They’ll probably approve a cordoba (sp) mosque on the site.
Report Post »Victory Not Vengeance
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:53pm@Mil Mom
FTR, the old Walter Reed has been closed for months. It got BRAC’ed in 2005, and was officially closed in September. Walter Reed is now the name of what’s now the joint Army-Navy hospital in Bethesda.
As for the officer who ordered a ban on religious materials: frankly, I’d like to know how an officer such as this made his way up through the ranks. That an officer with such a tin ear could be in a position of command speaks quite ill indeed of this officer’s current and former superiors. This kind of open arrogance should long since have gotten him enough bad OER’s to force him out of the Navy.
The problem here is not that an order like this has no business being issued. The real problem is that an officer this arrogant has no business being in a POSITION to issue such an order.
How, exactly, did this officer end up with this much authority? THAT is the REAL scandal here.
Report Post »Country
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:16pmStraight from the pages of a page from the Toward soviet America William Z. Foster.
Report Post »http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?u=1&num=316&seq=10&view=image&size=100&id=inu.30000041676879
TheVoice1
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:02pmCheck this link out as well…
http://injesus.com/message-archives/prophetic/insights/blockbuster-confirmation-the-tom-fife-story
Stand Stronger America
Report Post »momrules
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:32pmCountry and Thevoice1………. I went to both sites and everyone should go to them as well.
Youtube……..”.Louis Farrakan, Obama selected, not elected.” If this doesn’t scare and wake people up nothing will. Be sure to check out audience members such as Jesse Jackson.
Report Post »Manatajo
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:52pmThis is scarily relevant to what is happening today. Scanned through a few chapters before I saw it was from 1932!
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:43pmNeither of these websites are a surprise to me.. someone told me about the Russians talking about him..and the communist manifesto isn’t a surprise either..People have a hard time making a connection between this a Islam…Within these ten parts it connects the dots..it happened back in 1941 or 1942..Many claim sooner..Barry claimed to have been raised in Indonesia attending the strict Madrassa of his choice and St Francis of Cisissi. Someone on here claimed that the CC headed up the First Reich in Germany.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMLJJEDDDGc
Slarker
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:14pmFirst we have the national cemetery in Houston not allowing religious words to be mentioned. Atheists wanting their own chaplains. AF Academy not participating in a toy drive. Repeal of DADT. Removal of crosses from bases. Now Walter Reed. Add to that that it is now ok to commit acts of sodomy and beastiality, top by repealing habeus corpus. I can’t help but think Obama is forming his own version of the SS.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:48pmAtheists already have their own chaplain we call them social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists.
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:08pmYou are right on… check this link out
http://injesus.com/message-archives/prophetic/insights/blockbuster-confirmation-the-tom-fife-story
Stand Stronger America
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 4:21pmGood point Elana ! The atheist chaplain idea is certainly of an anti-christ spirit, which is AGAINST or INSTEAD OF Christ.
Report Post »Gsoc
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:12pmHow sad! I remember when I swore in to the Air Force in 1982, we were given little Bibles. I also received one when my daughter was born. I never would have imagined anti religion coming into the military. God and our country were what we served. Wow, the world has gotten evil!
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:23pmGSOC you have got that right
God and Mom is the ones called for in time of need by the MAJORITY
Constitution says the MAJORITY RULE and we have not since 1965
Report Post »behindHIM
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:30pmThank you for your service to our country and our God. With every word that ANYONE utters against this evil..the evil shrinks back instead of slithering fourth!! Thank God for every single individual across this country and around this globe that speaks up with Christ in our hearts!!
Report Post »We cannot get discouraged and forget he walks before us and all we have to do is get behind Him!! Evil is very good at trickery and perception, in this case alone there is so much evil the perception “appears” immense. But nothing in all of heaven and earth is more immense than God’s love. America is great because America is good!! God blessed and continues to bless America. Blessed be to God!
Jenny Lind
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:47pmYes, it has, and it will only get worse. When I watched Stephen King’s The Stand, I wondered how soon the battle would come. It’s very clear now-it’s started. God help us all.
Report Post »Deckle
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:10pmI agree with Rep King. Get the people out that put this anti Bible policy in place. As a taxpayer and American I am outraged. This country was the only country in the world founded in dedication to God and based all our laws on Biblical principals. You may not want to believe it but it is and will always remain the truth. I was raised in Williamsburg, VA and unlike most of America, this history was important to me!
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:49pmthey do need to be thrown out. our military, the strongest in the world, is being destroyed by the inside out from political correctness. on veterans day, listening to my retired army ranger father speak to me about how the liberals caused massive death and destruction in vietnam and the frustration the warriors felt, he had a strong talk with my son, his grandson about not joining which has been his life long dream. My father is a patriot and the tears he shed over the frustration and sadness about our country now broke my heart. they are destroying our country and our military. God help us.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:08pmHmmm. Well this is the way it would go with me, I WILL bring my Bible and and I WILL read from it if I want to and I would get arrested and thrown in jail. That is the way it would go for me.
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:18pmWe do not need to be a prophet to see the future clearly, do we?
Put you seat belt on my brother, we are going to see it get worse.
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:49pmThis kind of opposition to the teaching of God’s Word is not new. How did the apostles peter and John handle a similar situation?
Acts 4:18 With that they called them and charged them, nowhere to make any utterance or to teach upon the basis of the name of Jesus. 19 But in reply Peter and John said to them: “Whether it is righteous in the sight of God to listen to YOU rather than to God, judge for yourselves. 20 But as for us, we cannot stop speaking about the things we have seen and heard.” 21 So, when they had further threatened them, they released them, since they did not find any ground on which to punish them and on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God over what had occurred;
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:06pmThis directive came from the master of deception, Obama and one of his appointed idiots.
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:04pmOur tax dollars are buying Fuggin korans for terrorist in gitmo after the next election if we get somebody with bollz we need disconnect AL JAZEERA FROM THE WHITEHOUSE FOR IT’S ONLY SOURCE OF NEWS, and stop CAIR from giving touchy feely seminars to the FBI and the MILITARY.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:03pmThis is in direct violation of first amendment rights “Congress shall pass no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion”
I would sue the bejeezus out of the military for violating my rights if I were barred from any religious materials at anytime, anywhere in any square inch of American sovereign soil
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:09pmWe certainly cant have any praying goin on, especially for sick and injured vets, come on people, what were ya ll thinkin ? ….. Leftist freakin morons…..
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:17pmTough they may be in the military they have the right of “Christian” religion and it is why OUR military was and is banded together.
Jesus has been the glue of the Protestant made America and some mean selfish people are trying to change that…I will be standing for God who gives our rights through the government. They exist for us not them or their idealisms.
Those of you that think America is for your religion, WRONG, you have been here at most 100yrs and those of us that made it exceed 400 yrs
Report Post »Patriot Huntress
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:02pmThis isn’t really a surprise under this atheist administration. I wonder how they would respond should a Koran be brought in. My guess is they would turn a blind eye. Disconnect them from their families as much as possible. We are the government and we will be your family. You don‘t need your stupid parents to clog up your brain with faith and cookies just remind you of Mom’s faith so we need to take that away too. It’s always in the name of some bull crap that on the surface makes sense. Think about the ability to bring in baked goods. They are worried about them bringing in infections. Ok then what about any of the people entering the facility who are going to be in proximity of the wounded. I’m curious just how many people have died or received some type of infection from baked goods brought in by a family member in the last few hundred years while visiting their loved one being treated in a military hospital. These are your nanny staters at their best. I’m frankly sick of the Gladys Cravetts (the nosy neighbor from Bewitched) of the world. Most of them have their own dirty little secrets they don’t try to control and by working to control others they feel better about their own crap. Just Flipping sick of the Progressives!!!!! LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE!
Report Post »Patriot of My America
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:01pmThis President is akin to having Cancer of The Soul. He must be defeated at all costs.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:12pmClose but no cigar. He would have to have a soul first.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:04pmHe has a soul, its just very very lost and confused and I’d say there is little hope for it of ever coming around. Someone how in his own twisted point of view, he thinks that what he is doing is right and just, he is living in his own world.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:56amSatan is working overtime in the world right now… It’s coming down hard and fast..interesting times
Report Post »momrules
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:41pmInteresting times, yes, the End Time.
Report Post »palerider54
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:55pmAshestoashes, it‘s scary how the books about the ’Left Behind” movie seem to be coming true on a daily basis. Seems like the only thing left that needs to happen is an all out attack on Israel and then a 7 yr. treaty with Israel.
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mycomet123
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 6:07pmPALERIDER54, For all you LEFT BEHIND believers–if you read Matthew 24:37-41, the people that are left behind are the survivors–“as it was in the days of Noah so will it be at the coming of the Son of man”. From what I recall the people that were left beind in Noah’s day was the survivors on the ark. Isaiah 26:20-21.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:55amI wonder if any muslim soldiers get to pray 5 times a day, or there is falal on the menu, or there is NO pork on the menu?
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:53amThis is what we have come to. I am at a loss for words.
Report Post »RodT82721
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:53amOops! They are going to have to wait a little longer. Maybe if Barry gets back in, they can implement their no-Bible policy. This was just a few years too early. But it’s coming, the progressives never give up!
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:53amChief of Staff C.W. Callahan must be relieved of command and the public that he serves should strongly demand it.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:51amThis attack on Christian Faith and or Judeo-Christian values comes straight from the top!
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:50amThis is a projection of what is to come. Once Obummercare takes over all medical facilities, no religious books will be allowed in any hospital, clinic or doctors’ office. After all the 1st Amendment requires freedom FROM religion… right???
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:55amMarxism vs. Freedom. We have one last chance…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kqVZUCRth0
Report Post »texasfireguy
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:50amI bet this idiotic policy didn’t originate with the military commanders, but was directed from some political apointed civilian in the pentagon. Another example of the lefts continuing war on Christianity and the military, two institutions they despise and want to destroy.
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