http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/05/01/Breaking-Pentagon-Confirms-Will-Court-Martial-Soldiers-Who-Share-Christian-Faith

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...”. 

The statement, released to Fox News, follows a Breitbart News report 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. 

(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.”)

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. 

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.

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.

In response to the Pentagon’s plans, retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, who is now executive vice president of the Family Research Council (FRC), said on Fox & Friends this morning:

“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.”

Breitbart News legal columnist Ken Klukowski is senior fellow for religious liberty with the Family Research Council and on faculty at Liberty University School of Law. 

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  • That would converting a right into a crime, Supreme Court has already ruled it cannot be done. Freedom of religion is a right

  • Lord help us Jesus! write your Senators and Congressman. This has got to be stopped!

    Stop this evil before it goes any further.

  • I sure haven't heard anything about this on the nightly news or read it on line or in the newpaper. I haven't seen it on military.com or the Army Times. Is this one of those things they just slide on through without anyone noticing until it's too late? Lord help us JESUS!

    • Dianna: the nightly news is a state run poopaganda machine.

      Turn them off.

      Do your own research daily.

      Watch the other hand.

      This is only the beginning.

  • OMG!!  I say, throw those morons in the heat of battle, and lets see who they pray to for protection!!!!!! Of all jobs, being a soldier is when you need to lean upon your Christian faith AND Christian brothers in Christ the most!!!!  I bet the sticking rotten muslim soldiers who are in AMERICA's military can "proselytize" all they want!!!  OH.....WAIT.....No they don't do that!!!  They just go on a terroristic shooting rampage........and it gets called "workplace violence"!!!  FREEDOM OF RELIGION you idiot politicians!!!!  LEAVE IT ALONE!!!!  And SHAAAAAME on ANY military official that enforces or even supports this crock of crap!!!  If the do.....they are NOT America's Military!!  They are o'dumbo ear's military!!  Sorry Patriots.  Got so mad I went on a rant!!!!! Not sorry for what I said.  Just the rant.  :-)!!  The half-breed comes out of me sometimes!    

    • You said it all for me.  You go Carrie!!!!!!!!!!!

  • we'd better start standing up.

    • After we stand up be better start speaking up -- ignore the PC police.

      Beat them down.

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