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Related: About this forumU.S. Navy rejects "Humanist" chaplain; GOP influenced decision, according to report
BOOOO!!!
Despite a recommendation from the Navy Chaplain Appointment and Retention Eligibility Advisory Board, the Navy has denied the application of Jason Heap to become the militarys first Humanist chaplain.
It comes in the wake of strong pushback to his appointment from congressional Republicans. Republican Senator Roger Wicker and nearly two dozen of his GOP colleagues wrote a letter to the Navy last week calling Heaps potential approval a grave mistake.
Wicker was quick to celebrate Heaps rejection in a press release today:
The Navys leadership has done the right thing, Wicker said. The appointment of an atheist to an undeniably religious position is fundamentally incompatible with atheisms secularism. This decision preserves the distinct religious role that our chaplains carry out.
It comes in the wake of strong pushback to his appointment from congressional Republicans. Republican Senator Roger Wicker and nearly two dozen of his GOP colleagues wrote a letter to the Navy last week calling Heaps potential approval a grave mistake.
Wicker was quick to celebrate Heaps rejection in a press release today:
The Navys leadership has done the right thing, Wicker said. The appointment of an atheist to an undeniably religious position is fundamentally incompatible with atheisms secularism. This decision preserves the distinct religious role that our chaplains carry out.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/03/21/after-intense-gop-pushback-u-s-navy-rejects-humanist-chaplains-application/
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U.S. Navy rejects "Humanist" chaplain; GOP influenced decision, according to report (Original Post)
True Dough
Mar 2018
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Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)1. Who's the bully here?
Didn't I just read somewhere that atheists are bullies?
msongs
(67,395 posts)2. military should get rid of all chaplains priest etc. expensive and they
are hypocrites
MineralMan
(146,287 posts)3. I have to disagree.
Military personnel are often sent to places where opportunities to worship according to their faith is impossible. So, the military provides chaplains. I have no problem with that.
In fact, a Jewish chaplain at Lackland AFB helped me, as an atheist, to get dog tags that properly identified me as such during basic training. Without his help, I'd have spent my enlistment labeled as a Protestant. 1965. I understand that I was the first Airman to ever have that on my dog tags. Thanks, Rabbi!