Purge Continues

[John81]

Missouri Commission Removes Desert Storm Memorial with ‘Jesus Fish’

by William Bigelow12 Aug 2015

On Tuesday, the three-member Boone County Commission in Columbia, Missouri voted unanimously to remove a memorial honoring Operation Desert Storm from the county courthouse to a private cemetery because it featured an ichthys, AKA “Jesus fish.”

Two Boone County men who died in Operation Desert Storm, Patrick Connor and Steven Farnen, were listed on the memorial, but now the county has decided to replace the memorial with another one lacking any religious symbol. In May 2014. Americans United for Separation of Church and State started a campaign against the memorial, sending a letter to the commission. In June 2014, the commission forced the ichthys to be covered, eventually attaching a stone reading, “Dedicated 1992” to cover the insignia.

Connor and Famen’s parents alerted the commission that they would accept covering the ichthys if the memorial could stay at the courthouse. Hugh Famen, Steven’s father, said, “I hate the idea. But we were willing to compromise. It looks like y’all don’t want to do anything that breaks from what y’all want.”

A backlash against the commissioners may result from their actions; two of them must run for reelection in November 2016.

Other memorials honoring slain soldiers exist at the county courthouse, including memorials marking WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/12/missouri-commission-removes-desert-storm-memorial-with-jesus-fish/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

The Christian purge has begun: Chaplains banned from preaching that homosexuality is a sin

By Todd Starnes

Published August 11, 2015

FoxNews.com

It wasn’t so much a choice as it was a demand.

Chaplain David Wells was told he could either sign a state-mandated document promising to never tell inmates that homosexuality is “sinful” or else the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice would revoke his credentials.

“We could not sign that paper,” Chaplain Wells told me in a telephone call from his home in Kentucky. “It broke my heart.”

The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice revoked his volunteer credentials as an ordained minister – ending 13 years of ministry to underage inmates at the Warren County Regional Juvenile Detention Center.

“We sincerely appreciate your years of service and dedication to the youth served by this facility,” wrote Superintendent Gene Wade in a letter to Wells. “However, due to your decision, based on your religious convictions, that you cannot comply with the requirements outlined in DJJ Policy 912, Section IV, Paragraph H, regarding the treatment of LGBTQI youth, I must terminate your involvement as a religious volunteer.”

Wells said that every volunteer in their church received the letter – as did a Baptist church in a nearby community.

The Kentucky regulation clearly states that volunteers working with juveniles “shall not refer to juveniles by using derogatory language in a manner that conveys bias towards or hatred of the LGBTQI community. DJJ staff, volunteers, interns and contractors shall not imply or tell LGBTQI juveniles that they are abnormal, deviant, sinful or that they can or should change their sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Entire article here:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/08/11/chaplains-banned-from-preaching-that-homosexuality-is-sin.html

[282Mikado]

Back in the 90's after 14 years active duty Navy I considered cross-rating to Religious Program Specialist (RP) and serving my remaining 6 (or more) years in the reserves. That idea quickly dissolved when I learned that the chaplain corps is not about true faith at all. Regardless your personally held faith, as a chaplain or RP you are required to cater to those of all faiths as if you were of their faith. This includes performing religious services, counseling, etc.

Could you imagine being a chaplain or RP in the Navy, (as a true and faithful Christian) and having to council someone from the Qu'ran or the Sutras? Neither could I and so I remained out. The retirement idea came at too great a cost.

[John81]

I encountered the same issue when in the Air Force. After speaking to a Baptist chaplain about my thoughts on the matter I decided that I couldn't consider myself a faithful follower of Christ if I were to hold back my true beliefs, restrain the Spirit from doing His work through me, and speak to people as if false religions were fine and had the answers they were looking for.

My heart ached for that Baptist chaplain as he explained how things had changed so much over the years and he was glad his retirement was just around the corner. He was obviously grieved by the life he was living as a compromised chaplain but he was determined to ride it out and get his retirement. While he was unwilling to remove himself from that situation, I'm thankful he was open with me and while he didn't tell me not to get into the chaplaincy, he was obviously trying to turn me away from the idea. As he said, if I truly want to follow Christ, being an Air Force chaplain isn't the place to be. If I could at least appear to accept all religions as equal and was willing to perform highly for all religions and keep my personal beliefs to myself, then I could do well in the chaplaincy. He made it clear that if he had it to do again, or if the situation when he first considered being a chaplain were like it was now (early 80s) he wouldn't have become a chaplain.

Things are even worse in our military today.