Military Chaplains’ Religious Liberty Again At Stake

It is an unfortunate scenario that has become all too common – our military chaplains receiving the brunt of a politically correct stifling of religious freedom. Over the past several years, most of the threat has come in the form of attempts to control how – and in Whose name – a military chaplain may pray.

Now, in the wake of the President’s new position on same-sex marriage (and his proclivity for using the military as a trial balloon for his social policies), there is a growing concern that military chaplains will be obligated to perform marriage ceremonies that violate their sincerely held religious beliefs. This is particularly troubling because a chaplain’s ability to minister to our servicemen and women is closely tied to their freedom to operate according to the tenants of their individual faith. There should never be any fear that a career as military chaplain would be jeopardized as a result of exercising a personal moral or religious belief.

Fortunately, there is an initiative underway to ensure that full freedom of conscience is extended to all our service members, and particularly our military chaplains. Last Friday, by a vote of 299-120, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Included in the bill is an amendment authored by Rep. Todd Akin that ensures robust conscience protection for our chaplains and service members.

However, the Senate has yet to consider the NDAA, so this important conscience protection is not yet in law. Because religious liberty is one of the foundational rights in this country, we should expect our elected officials on both sides of the aisle to support the basic language in the Akin Amendment. As both the Senate Armed Services Committee and the full Senate prepare to consider this legislation, Americans of all faiths should speak out for the conscience rights of our military chaplains and servicemembers.

Further, the President – even after departing from the position he campaigned on – should stand on the side of a military chaplain or servicemember’s right to honor the tenants of his or her faith. Anything less is unacceptable.

Please join the ACLJ in taking a stand by signing our Petition to Protect Religious Freedom of Military Chaplains today.

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Obama Opposes Purple Heart for Arkansas Soldier and Those Slain at Ft. Hood

Representative Tim Griffin of Arkansas posted a video on his Youtube page on May 18, 2012 in support of a bill that could give an Arkansas soldier the Purple Heart.

The slain soldier in question, Army Pvt. William “Andy” Long, was killed in 2009 outside of a recruiting center in Little Rock, AR.

Because Long was killed in a domestic act of terror, the Obama administration feels that he is ineligible for the Purple Heart — since he feels that it is not a combat zone.

From ArkansasNews.com

Long’s killer, Abdulhakim Muhammad, is serving a life sentence without the possibility for parole after pleading guilty in July to shooting Long and Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula outside a west Little Rock military recruiting center on June 1, 2009. Ezeagwula, of Jacksonville, was wounded but survived the attack.

The bill is expected to pass the House of Representatives. It is unknown how the bill would fair in the Senate and the Obama administration is on record as opposing the bill.

Political Correctness And Make Believe

May 21, 2012 by Sam Rolley

Sean King, a white second-grader, dressed up as Martin Luther King Jr. and got in trouble.

The United States has come a long way since Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

One must wonder what King, whose dream was for his four children to live in a Nation where they would “not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character,” would think of today’s political correctness-obsessed society. Our society has become so overly sensitive in matters of race that even the most innocent things are deemed offensive.

Take, for instance, the efforts of school officials at Meridian Ranch Elementary School in Peyton, Colo., to make an innocent second-grader believe he had done something wrong for preparing a presentation about King all by himself. The incident happened on the school’s wax museum day, according to local KRDO NewsChannel 13. Second-grade students were assigned historical figures to dress up as and report on, and Sean King, a white student, was assigned the famous civil rights leader.

In preparation for his project, Sean decided he would need a few things if he would be portraying King. He went about putting together his costume, complete with the white shirt, black suit and black tie combination that King was often pictured wearing, a fake moustache; and black face paint to make himself look more like King.

On the day of the presentation, Sean’s parents went to the school along with the parents of other youngsters who were dressed as various other historical figures.

“Right before it was time to come in (to the classroom), the principal came up and stated he (Sean) was to take the face mask off. There was a person in the faculty that had an issue with it,” Michelle King-Roca, the child’s mother, told KRDO.

A spokesman for the school told the news source that the principal’s decision was made because staff members, and possibly some students, were offended by Sean’s costume. His parents opted to leave the school with Sean rather than ruin the presentation for which he had prepared so diligently.

“As a parent I think it’s pretty sad that you’ve got a principal and a faculty member that are acting the way they are when they should be setting an example for children,” Anthony Roca said.

A local chapter of the National Association for the Achievement of Colored People chimed in and offered support for the school’s decision to confuse the child and make him feel as if he had done something terribly wrong.

“By having blackface as part of his presentation, it ended up harkening back to a really tragic time in the life of this country, a time when blackface was used by entertainers primarily to demean African-Americans,” Rosemary Harris Lytle told KRDO.

Of course the student, being in the second grade and not working for the NAACP, likely has no knowledge of the use of blackface by white actors to portray blacks in cinema of the past (and more recently, on an episode of the sitcom “30 Rock”) or why it could be offensive.

This story is just one of an ever-compounding number of examples of a problem that has replaced bigoted racism in America: sensitive racism.

In “The Historical Roots of ‘Political Correctness’”, Raymond V. Raehn writes: “Political Correctness is not at all about ‘being nice,’ unless one thinks gulags are nice places. Political Correctness is Marxism, with all that implies: loss of freedom of expression, thought control, inversion of the traditional social order and, ultimately, a totalitarian state.”

Problem is, if “judging by the content of their character” is frowned upon, and judging by the color r their skin is unsavory, then, uh, what’s left? Oh! I get it! That’s why there are now no winners and no losers, right?

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You’ve GOT to be Kidding …

Tennessee Man Has 30 Kids, Asks Judge For Child Support Break

Desmond Hatchett just realized something. He cannot support his 30 kids on his minimum wage job. He fathered 30 children with 11 different women. He’s had four children in a year on two separate occasions.

Who are these women? Why do they keep having his babies? And why doesn’t he spend money on protection?

Now he’s asked a judge for some relief in his child support payments.

Half his salary is being divided among the 30 kids but what is half of minimum wage divided by 30? Tennessee does not have a state minimum wage, so the national minimum wage of $7.25 applies. Half of that divided by 30 is 12 cents an hour. So even if he worked a full time work week of 40 hours, it wouldn’t even amount to $5 a week!

He promised the courts he’d stop having kids three years ago when he had 21 kids. But he did not obey that promise.

LIBERALS: give this man some condoms!
CONSERVATIVES: teach this man he’s responsible for his actions (and his children!)

What I Would Do …

While hanging out in Twitterland this morning, I chanced upon a mystical tweet. The gist of this tweet challenged fellow tweeters to reply with their solutions to America’s problems.

As a reply, I would …

Inspire gratitude instead of greed;
Kindness, instead of anger;
Self-respect, instead of self-indulgence;
Honesty, instead of lies;
And friendliness, instead of distrust.

This may seem simplistic or naive, but the best way to attain different results (different than greed and hatred), is to use different methods, right? Greed has become our national characteristic and identity. Not just the Wall Street bankers, no … if they were alone in their greed, we wouldn’t have so much envy protesting on “Wall Street” and in many major cities. The whole Wall Street protest (OWS) is about greed: the protesters accuse the RICH of being greedy, but the protesters WANT what the rich have – without putting in the effort, of course. GREED! Yes, greed has overtaken our gratitude for all we HAVE that many, many around the world have never thought about. Things like indoor plumbing, running water, HOT water … are all rare when considered in a global sense. If we choose greed over gratitude, we are thinking of THINGS, STUFF. Gratitude for even the small things, for the 2, 5, 25 people who love you, certainly outweighs the Land Rover update or the latest I-phone, don’t you think? It’s a Choice! A Daily choice, but CHOICE is what America is about.

How would YOU change things?