WUC NEWS: Soldiers

<h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: "Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense...Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis...”.</span></h2><div><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4160732926314614" data-ad-slot="5003299087" style="display: inline-block; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></ins><br />
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<img height="478" src="http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Government/2013/05/01/wounded_soldier_cross_AP.jpg" width="640" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The statement, released to <a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/is-the-u-s-military-preparing-to-court-martial-christians.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 85, 0); color: #0088bb; text-decoration: none;">Fox News</a>, follows a Breitbart News <span style="border: 0px; color: blue; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/04/28/Pentagon-Consults-Extremist-Who-Calls-Christians-Monsters-and-Enemies-of-the-Constitution-to-Develop-Religious-Tolerance-Policy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 85, 0); color: #0088bb; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; color: blue; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">report</span></a></span> on Obama administration Pentagon appointees meeting with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein to develop court-martial procedures to punish Christians in the military who express or share their faith. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(From our earlier report: Weinstein is the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and says Christians--including chaplains--sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ in the military are guilty of “treason,” and of committing an act of “spiritual rape” as serious a crime as “sexual assault.” He also asserted that Christians sharing their faith in the military are “enemies of the Constitution.”)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being convicted in a court martial means that a soldier has committed a crime under federal military law. Punishment for a court martial can include imprisonment and being dishonorably discharged from the military. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So President Barack Obama’s civilian appointees who lead the Pentagon are confirming that the military will make it a crime--possibly resulting in imprisonment--for those in uniform to share their faith. This would include chaplains—military officers who are ordained clergymen of their faith (mostly Christian pastors or priests, or Jewish rabbis)--whose duty since the founding of the U.S. military under George Washington is to teach their faith and minister to the spiritual needs of troops who come to them for counsel, instruction, or comfort.</span></div>

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This regulation would severely limit expressions of faith in the military, even on a one-to-one basis between close friends. It could also effectively abolish the position of chaplain in the military, as it would not allow chaplains (or any service members, for that matter), to say anything about their faith that others say led them to think they were being encouraged to make faith part of their life. It’s difficult to imagine how a member of the clergy could give spiritual counseling without saying anything that might be perceived in that fashion.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In response to the Pentagon’s plans, retired <a href="http://www.frc.org/frcinthenews/01may2013/lt-gen-jerry-boykin-on-fox-and-friends" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 85, 0); color: #0088bb; text-decoration: none;">Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin</a>, who is now executive vice president of the Family Research Council (FRC), said on <em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fox & Friends</em> Wednesday morning:</span></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; color: #111111; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a matter of what do they mean by "proselytizing." ...I think they’ve got their defintions a little confused. If you’re talking about coercion that’s one thing, but if you’re talking about the free exercise of our faith as individual soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, especially for the chaplains, they I think the worst thing we can do is stop the ability for a soldier to be able to exercise his faith.”</span></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FRC has <a href="http://www.frc.org/alert/pentagon-consultant-no-gospel-witness-for-chaplains" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 85, 0); color: #0088bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="border: 0px; color: blue; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">launched a petition here</span></a> which has already collected over 60,000 signatures, calling on Secretary Hagel is stop working with Weinstein and his anti-Christian organization to develop military policy regarding religious faith.</span></div>

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PENTAGON MAY COURT MARTIAL SOLDIERS WHO SHARE CHRISTIAN FAITH

The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: "Religious proselytizatio...

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PENTAGON MAY COURT MARTIAL SOLDIERS WHO SHARE CHRISTIAN FAITH

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