ACLJ Protecting Military Chaplain’s Freedom To Pray In Jesus Name
Posted on November 16, 2005
A group of Congressmen, led by Rep. Walter Jones, has come together to call on our President to protect by Executive Order the constitutional rights of military chaplains to pray according to their faith. The ACLJ supports this brave group! We stand with them and call concerned citizens everywhere to let their voices be heard on this critical issue. Today, we ask you to join us in our efforts. Please read the form carefully and declare your membership with the ACLJ by signing the Petition to Protect Military Prayer to President Bush below.
Petition to Protect Military Prayer
To the Honorable President George W. BushWe are disappointed and gravely concerned to learn that the right of military chaplains to pray according to their faith is in jeopardy.
It has come to our attention that in all branches of the military, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Christian chaplains to use the name of Jesus when praying. We believe this suppression of religious freedom is a pervasive problem that must be dealt with and eliminated immediately.
Throughout our nation’s history, chaplains not only have remained an integral part of our military, but they also have always prayed according to their faith’s tradition. We believe that if chaplains are chosen to pray before a professional setting, they have a constitutional right to adhere to the religious expressions of their faith. Furthermore, such censorship of Christian beliefs is a disservice to Christian chaplains as well as the hundreds of thousands of Christian soldiers in the military who look to their chaplains for comfort, inspiration, and support, just as our military soldiers of other faiths look to their chaplains.
We respectfully request that you, as Commander and Chief, protect by Executive Order the constitutional right of military chaplains to pray according to their faith.
SIGN THE PETITION TO PROTECT MILITARY PRAYER
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Dear Dishonorable Bush-
I hope you get impeached for the failed terms in which you have led the nation down the wrong road one too many times. Outing CIA officials is treason and your Culture of Corruption is apparent in your lack of ethics and failed policies both foreign and domestic. I believe ther e are more important things to worry about than if the word Jesus is used in your continued crusade against the Muslim faith. I wish you never turned a blind eye towards your family friends the Bin Laden Family . Again Thanks for not caring and I do hope you get impeached.
Bruiser, You might get a better response if you actually sent that to the president.
Bruiser,
1: Put down crackpipe
2: Find tin-foil hat.
3: Put hat back on.
4: Re-assume fetal, thumb sucking position.
regards,
Navtechie – why did you lower your morals by answering bruiser?
He needs to check out statements made by several of his liberal (can do no wrong) politicians, expecially Blubber boy Kennedy and Pretty ladies’ man Clinton.
It was Clinton who showed me the light to change my party affilitation from Democrat to the GOP.
navtechie, that you would scoff at what Bruiser wrote with mention of a “tin-foil hat” (do you even know what that term means?) without addressing the substance of his comment is the height of screaming irony –emblematic of blindly raving Bush supporters, whose numbers are quite understandably dwindling.
You and your fellow sycophants, who would vote for a crippled platypus as long as it declared itself anti-left, will unconditionally rail against all things liberal whether they exist or not. However, people like the fans of this site are now part of a shameful fringe element whose members speak only for themselves, not for the right as a whole. This is not the fault of the ACLU or a liberal media; rather, it is directly attributable to ongoing, worsening and global misconduct on the part of GWB & Co.
Thinking conservatives have had enough, not to mention the nation as a whole. Bush, like as not (and I’m not happy about it; I voted for his goofy ass in ‘00) is going to go down in history as one of the most dismal presidential failures this country has seen. His approval rating is for crap, the cronyism running rampant in his administration is coming back to bite him in the ass in a big way, his shameless and repeated lying about Iraq is being thrown into the spotlight, many top White House officials are being indicted (wait for the Abramoff scandal to fully unfold), foreign opinion of America has cratered, and the southward-bound economy is going to manifest itself this winter in the form of unmanageable heating bills and more. I could go on, but it’s depressing.
I think you owe it to yourself and the readers of this site to not simply dismiss criticism of the current president as the by-product of crazed minds, given the undeniable evidence that if anything, people presently singing Bush’s praises need a neuological exam.
I have yet to see why even if GWB’s approval rating go to a minus 50% what that has to do with a Chaplain praying in according with his faith. Why dont you people who are critizing the president go to a site that might pay attention to your lack of knowledge to history relating to the current state of the world.
Here’s a solution: Get these douchebags off of the public payroll and they can pray to Jesus all they want.
Please protect by Executive Order the constitutional rights of military chaplains to pray according to their faith.
I am a Mother of a Marine, ACLU is not helping us. Jay must not have had a mother to love him. Bush need to leave, and he will soon. he just is covering for what is father could not do. I believe in freedom of speach,but also freedom in prayer’s, the are free….
Comrades,
I have to disagree with this petition. I/m a disabled veteran. I’ve been there, and done that. I have the absolute respect for any man who will don a Chaplain’s mantle and brave the fire of the enemy armed only with his faith. He is there to comfort those in need, and he does his work inselfishly, many times giving his own life in the defence on another.
However, I cannot countenance the act of allowing specific religious invocations at mandatory assemblies except in the broadest ecuminical sense. Asking God’e blessing upon those assembled is fine. Asking in the name of Jesus, or Allah, or Krishna is not.
Chaplians are sworn to uphold the Constitution, as is any military officer. They are REQUIRED by law and their oath thusly to respect all religious freedoms, including the right to be free of any particular sect or dogma.
It’s a fine line to walk, to be certain. The SJC has upheld the right to references to God by Congressional and Senatorial chaplains, military chaplains, and upon public buildings. However, allowing specific dogmatic use during any assembly where attendance is mandatory must be prohibited.
Respects to all,
Gwedd
Liberals are destroying America!!
I wish death, cancer, aids, sipholis, and brain rot (wich you all have anyway!!) to all you liberals!!
I wish all liberals had one throat and I had my hands around it!! When a liberal or a faggot (same thing)dies the angels in heaven REJOICE and so do I!!!
Mike
Excuse me Arford, but Bruiser’s criticisms of the President were dismissed because they had no substance, were not based on fact, and did nothing but spin. The only thing Bush has screwed up so far in his second term is not being conservative enough. The public use fo the name Jesus is NOT prohibited in the Constitution anywhere. A government official giving worship to Jesus in public is not the government imposing one religion. If you don’t like it, don’t pray with them. It is the practice of Christianity to pray publicly, and to say that a government or military office can’t where an assembly is required is saying he can’t is taking away his freedom of religion.
This is really stupid. I’m not even a Christian, but you know what? This is a Christian country. When I was a Marine, when the chaplain said “let us pray” we all bowed our heads out of *respect* for those to whom the prayer is very important.
Liberals have absolutely no respect for their freedoms, for this country and for their fellow men.
Dear Pres. Bush,
I ask that you make it possible for our military to be able to pray in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord at any time they wish. Our military certainly deserves the best and that is giving them the best. Without the Lord to give them the assurance of his presense with them, even though they can pray for themselves, they need to be able to feel absolutely not restrictions on praying to our Lord. Thanks for your attention on this matter.
Dear President Bush,
Thank you for your leadership during these very difficult years. I thank God you are in charge, rather than your liberal opponents of each campaign. As a Christian and former member of our military, I am sickened by the constant attack by the ACLU on Christianity on all fronts. Our country was founded upon the Christian faith. Please protect what the founding fathers of our country staked their lives on.