February 7, 2011 9:31 AM
Evangelical chaplains may be purged from military
Evangelical chaplains may face ultimatumChad Groening - OneNewsNow - 2/2/2011 3:50:00 AM
Gordon James Klingenschmitt is a former Navy chaplain who was forced out of the service in 2007 for praying in Jesus' name. He says the Obama Pentagon wants to purge evangelical, Bible-preaching chaplains from the service by giving them an ultimatum -- "reconcile" with homosexual sin, or quit.
Pentagon leaders preparing to impose open homosexuality on the military are serving notice that discrimination against the deviant lifestyle will not be tolerated. In a recently released memorandum, Defense Secretary Robert Gates directed his policy staff to move ahead carefully, but expeditiously, to end the ban on military service for open homosexuals.
Officials said they will complete implementation plans for the new policy by Friday, February 4, and will commence indoctrination training this month.
Klingenschmitt, the former Navy chaplain, now heads up "The Pray In Jesus Name Project." He believes a purge is coming.
"Chaplains are now being faced with a choice: either quit the service, or reconcile with homosexual sin," he states. "Promotions and assignments are going to be controlled by whether or not chaplains reconcile with homosexual sin. It's really leading to a purge, I'm afraid."
He contends that "many" conservative chaplains are going to be persecuted by the Obama administration -- an administration he says is "forcing these bad policies to punish chaplains who quote the Bible outside of the Sunday chapel."
Klingenschmitt says while some liberal chaplains may go along with the new policy, he believes evangelical, Bible-believing chaplains are not going to reconcile with something God has called sin -- and consequently are going to be forced to resign from the military as soon as the implementation plans are put in place.
HT: Thoughts from a Conservative Mom This would certainly apply to uncompromised Catholic priests serving as chaplains, too.
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Welp...most of the chaplin corp is either evangelical or catholic. So I fear it's worse than that...a near end to the whole institution. For as long as we've been an army family there has always been a shortage of Catholic Priest in the chaplin corp. Right now we're in an assignment that allows us to venture off post and I'm so grateful for it...but our last assignment was 4+ years in a very remote location. We lived over 40 miles from the nearest civilian Parish...but our military Priest lived even further (probably about 70 miles) from base. So he had a heck of a commute. Still we were lucky to have had him there for our soldiers and families.
Posted by: Susanna | February 7, 2011 5:26 PM
