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1. 2013 ends with the weakest jobs growth in years.
2. New York City votes for an openly socialist or even communist mayor, Bill de Blasio.
3. We discuss economic freedom with Bob Adelmann.
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Muslims threaten "Million Martyr" march to Jerusalem
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Muslims threaten “Million Martyr” march to Jerusalem
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is pressuring Israel to give up Jerusalem in exchange for empty promises that Muslims will recoginize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.
“The apparent trade-off is Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish homeland, in exchange for Israel’s acceptance of its pre-1967 frontier as the baseline for border talks,” reports Politico.
Sadly, Palestinians responded by flat-out refusing to ever recognize Israel.
“We won’t accept the Jewishness of Israel. We are asking for the 1967 borders,” replied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the Jerusalem Post. The pre-1967 borders do not include Jerusalem as part of modern-day Israel.
Watch! Dr. Chaps’ NEW 7-minute TV commentary on how Obama/Kerry pressure Israel to give up Jerusalem–>
Abbas then threatened war against Israel.
“We don’t love death, but we welcome martyrdom if it happens,” Abbas declared. “We will march to Jerusalem in the millions, as free people and heroes.”
Although President Obama and SecState Kerry are pressuring Israel to give up Jerusalem,Israel is standing firm.
“A government that accepts the 1967 lines is committing national suicide. We will not be part of it and will try to replace it,” said Ayelet Shaked, leader of the Jewish Home party.
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: It is not only national suicide for Israel to give up Jerusalem, it isnational suicide for America to pressure Israel to give up Jerusalem. We will lose God’s blessing if we conspire to divide God’s city. God says in the Bible: “I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land.” –Joel 3:2]
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Time Magazine: Israel threatened by Obama’s cave in to Iran. Take action!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is furious with President Barack Obama, after his administration caved in to Iran, lifting sanctions while allowing their nuclear program to remain mostly intact.
Time Magazine reports most Israelis feel the same way. *Israeli Jews overwhelmingly fear Iran’s leaders will do what they did in 2005, the last time they signed a pact with the West halting their nuclear program – use the time-out to advance their knowledge of the nuclear processes, then resume a project that critics fear will produce a nuclear weapon.”
International Nuclear Experts agree that Obama is failing to protect Israel. Olli Heinonen, a former deputy director of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, now at Harvard, “was blunt on the danger posed by the stockpiles of uranium Iran has enriched beyond the 3 percent ‘low enrichment’ required to fuel a nuclear reactor to the 20 percent ‘medium’ level ostensibly necessary for research.
“‘Medium’ has a half-way sound but because so much of the heavy lifting in the nuclear cycle precedes the spinning of centrifuges, 20 percent actually is most of the way to the ‘heavily enriched’ 90 percent level required to fuel a nuclear weapon.
Watch! Dr. Chaps’ TV commentary on Obama’s threat to Israel by his bad deal with Iran, here.
“If you already have 20 percent enriched uranium, actually you have done 90 percent of your work,” Heinonen said. He adds that the same formulations apply to uranium technically dubbed low-enriched, “which is why I understand the concerns of Prime Minister Netanyahu.”
“Iran has almost 7 metric tons of that material, and “you have done something like 60 percent of the effort you have to do to produce weapons grade uranium.”
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Obama and Kerry help Iran threaten Israel. Take action!
As if President Obama’s pro-Muslim foreign policy wasn’t obvious enough, now his Secretary of State John Kerry is secretly negotiating with Iran to allow their nuclear program to threatenIsrael, according to the Jerusalem Post.
“US President Barack Obama called Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu last Friday afternoon to discuss developing talks in Geneva over Iran’s nuclear program, just as US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Switzerland to clinch an interim deal that Israel’s government openly opposes.
“The call marked the end of a hard day in the relationship between the two leaders. Just before personally meeting with Kerry in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu spoke in front of cameras with unprecedented anger, ripping at the deal being forged in Geneva as a clear victory for the Islamic Republic, orchestrated by the United States.”
Watch! Dr. Chaps 7-minute TV commentary on how John Kerry threatens Israel and appeases Iran’s nuclear program.
The Guardian reports four parts of the bad deal proposed by Kerry and Obama:
* Iran would stop weapons-grade 20 percent uranium enrichment.
* Iran would be allowed to continue 3.5% unranium enrichment needed for power stations, but limit the number of centrifuges being used. The deal would, however, not include any demand to remove or disable any other centrifuges.
* While still being allowed to work on its plutonium reactor at Arak, Iran would agree not to activate it for the duration of the six months. The plutonium reactor could provide for another route to nuclear weapons capability.
* Iran would not use its IR-2 centrifuges that are more advanced and capable of enriching uranium three-to-five times faster than the older model.
In exchange for these steps, the US would agree to ease some “reversible” economic sanctions, possibly by releasing some Iranian funds frozen in overseas accounts.
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: Kerry continues Hillary Clinton’s failed foreign policy of appeasement, allowing Iranian centrifuges, allowing plutonium and uranium enrichment, AND they plan to unfreeze their assets and restore free trade? Obama has surrendered to the Mullahs and openly threatens Israeli security. No wonder Netanyahu is angry.]
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Wow. Netanyahu quotes Jesus and Bible 5 times at U.N.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted Jesus and the Bible five times in his speech to the United Nations last week, including at least two New Testament quotes, reports Israel Today.
Netanyahu not only referred to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as Israel’s forefathers, he also cited the Old Testament when “The Persian king Cyrus issued a famous edict in which he proclaimed the right of the Jews to return to the land of Israel and rebuild the Jewish temple inJerusalem.” If ancient Iran recognized Israel, so should modern Iran, he argued.
He also “quoted directly [from Jesus in] the Gospel of Matthew, suggesting that the true nature of Israel’s foes will be revealed by their actions, as seen in the following verse in Jesus’ sermon: ‘By their fruits shall ye know them.'”
Watch! Dr. Chaps’ 7-minute TV commentary on P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu quoting the Bible 5 times at the U.N.–>
“Netanyahu declared in his speech that if necessary Israel would stand alone to defend herself against the Iranian nuclear threat, the Prime Minister was referring to a prophecy in Deuteronomy 33:28.
“The prophecy reads, ‘Then Israel shall dwell in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone…happy are you O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord.’
“Quoting from the Prophet Amos in English and then in Hebrew, Netanyahu made it clear to all who are listening that no threat, nuclear or otherwise, will remove Israel from the Land. For the Lord Himself has established His people here.
“The people of Israel have come home never to be uprooted again,” he concluded.
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: As a Jewish leader, Prime Minister Netanyahu appears better versed in the Judeo-Christian scriptures than any other world leader, including our own “Christian” President Barack H. Obama.]
Let’s stand with Israel today, and petition the U.S. Congress to stop help Israel.
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“I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land.” Joel 3:2
God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,
Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhDWho is Dr. Chaps? Read bio here.
P.S. Thank you for standing with Israel and with with me. I appreciate your love for God and God’s chosen people, who are under attack from all sides in these last days.
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John Kerry pressures Israel: Give up Jerusalem for Peace – PIJN 0200 – Dr. Chaps Klingenschmitt
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1. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is pressuring Israel to give up Jerusalem for peace
2. The U.S. Army tells soldiers “Don’t say the word Christmas”
3. A gun-manufacturer leaves Colorado and moves to Texas after Democrats passed 5 gun-grabbing laws
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NSA still spying on Americans – FISA Court OK – PIJN 0199 – Dr. Chaps Klingenschmitt
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1. The FISA Court authorizes more spying on American citizens, violating the 4th Amendment
2. The New York Times helps Hillary Clinton by lying about the terror attack in Benghazi
3. Vice President Joe Biden proposes new gun-grabbing measures, violating the 2nd Amendment
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FRACKING: Is it safe? Pro vs. Con Debate – Bob Adelmann – PIJN 0198 – Dr. Chaps
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1. We investigate Fracking. What is the big controversy about drilling for American oil?
2. We show clips from pro-fracking and anti-fracking documentaries
3. We have a news-making interview with Bob Adelmann, a public speaker who has studied the fracking controversy in detail.
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Colorado: Buying Marijuana with Food Stamps? – PIJN 0197 – Dr. Chaps Klingenschmitt
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1. Colorado legalizes marijuana, but can welfare recipients buy pot with food stamps?
2. A Court rules that evangelical Chaplains should NOT be promoted by the military
3. The Supreme Court stops Obamacare from forcing Catholic Nuns to buy abortion pills
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David vs. Goliath: Lawsuit v. Mikey Weinstein leaps Forward
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David vs. Goliath: Lawsuit v. Mikey Weinstein leaps Forward
“A defamation lawsuit filed by a conservative Christian minister and former Navy chaplain against Michael ‘Mikey’ Weinstein and the [Militant Religion Foes Foundation] he founded got a step closer to trial following a hearing Wednesday in Albuquerque,” reports the ABQ Journal.
“District Judge Denise Barela Shepherd dismissed one claim against Weinstein, malicious abuse of process, in the lawsuit filed by Gordon Klingenschmitt of Colorado.
“But she denied Weinstein’s motion to dismiss the defamation claim.
“Both sides counted it as a victory…”
“Klingenschmitt’s lawyers said they believe the case will go to trial.
“Stephen Casey said after Shepherd’s ruling that the claims had been thoroughly investigated before the case was filed and he expects it to go to trial.
“The New Mexico litigation is a spinoff from a Texas case.”
“A Dallas judge ultimately dismissed Weinstein’s lawsuit because he could not prove a causal connection between the former chaplain’s ‘imprecatory prayer’ and a threatened or actual action.
“Klingenschmitt subsequently filed the defamation action against Weinstein and the foundation in state district court in New Mexico because the Weinsteins live in Albuquerque and the foundation is organized under New Mexico law.
“The lawsuit alleges Weinstein made statements on behalf of himself and the foundation in a 2009 radio interview and article in the Dallas Morning News that [falsely] associated Klingenschmitt with acts of vandalismthat occurred at Weinstein’s home…”
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: Mikey has been a thorn in the side of Christians for a decade. Mikey’s foundation pays him hundreds of thousands of dollars to silence Christian voices, while my non-profit has never paid me one dime of salary. Can you please donate to our legal defense fund so I can pay for my lawyers’ travel and court expenses?]
Please donate either 100 dollars, 1,000 dollars, or any amount here, to our “Sue Mikey Weinstein Fund” and together we will defend evangelical Christians in our military.
PRESS RELEASE: Chaplain sues Mikey Weinstein for Lying, Defamation, Abuse.
(Albuquerque, ChristianNewsWire.com, 3 Dec 12.) The former Navy Chaplain who took a stand to pray “in Jesus’ name” (and was later vindicated by Congress) filed a breaking news defamation lawsuit against the militant anti-Christian activist Mikey Weinstein, who got served yesterday. Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD, just filed the new legal complaint in New Mexico State Court, citing multiple counts of defamation and malicious abuse of the legal process by Weinstein and his openly anti-Christian organization the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Inc.
The legal complaint, posted here (https://www.prayinjesusname.
“Unless he believes in time travel, Weinstein knew he was lying about me, and he did so repeatedly,” said the Chaplain. Over 3,000 web-sites have repeated Weinstein’s defamatory words by falsely associating the Chaplain with animal carcasses. This obsession to harm the Chaplain began in 2006, and Weinstein has blogged against the Chaplain about 87 times on his web-site.
In 2009, Weinstein even filed a baseless lawsuit against the Chaplain that was later dismissed for lack of causation by a Texas Judge. “By lying in court about a timeline of causation he knew to be false, we believeWeinstein has maliciously abused the legal process,” said the Chaplain’s attorney Kelly O’Connell. Weinsteinand MRFF have filed and lost up to five baseless lawsuits against the military or against Christian freedom of speech in recent years, legal abuse that may also violate New Mexico law.
Weinstein declared his MRFF organization is at war in a “death fight” against 12.6 percent of the American public or 38 million Christians. He once threatened violence against the Chaplain, saying he wished “to beat the **** out of him … in an alley behind a Safeway,” confirmed the Dallas Morning News. Many similar quotes by Weinstein against other Christians are listed here (https://www.prayinjesusname.
“We’re taking donations for our ‘Sue Mikey Weinstein Fund’ at my non-profit ministry web-site (https://secure.
For interviews, contact attorney Kelly O’Connell at 575-496-6359, hibernian1@gmail.com, or Dr. Klingenschmitt at 719-360-5132, chaplaingate@yahoo.com. Christians please donate at https://prayinjesusname.org.
Please donate either 100 dollars, 1,000 dollars, or any amount here, to our “Sue Mikey Weinstein Fund” and together we will defend evangelical Christians in our military.
God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,
Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD
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Defamation suit closer to trial
A defamation lawsuit filed by a conservative Christian minister and former Navy chaplain against Michael “Mikey” Weinstein and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation he founded got a step closer to trial following a hearing Wednesday in Albuquerque.
District Judge Denise Barela Shepherd dismissed one claim against Weinstein, malicious abuse of process, in the lawsuit filed by Gordon Klingenschmitt of Colorado.
But she denied Weinstein’s motion to dismiss the defamation claim.
Both sides counted it as a victory.
“Half their case was dismissed today,” said attorney David Roman of Albuquerque, who was one of three lawyers representing Weinstein and the foundation at the hearing. Weinstein, his wife and the foundation have filed a counterclaim against Klingenschmitt.
He said once discovery is completed, Weinstein could again seek a court ruling to end the litigation.
But Klingenschmitt’s lawyers said they believe the case will go to trial. Stephen Casey said after Shepherd’s ruling that the claims had been thoroughly investigated before the case was filed and he expects it to go to trial.
The New Mexico litigation is a spinoff from a Texas case.
Weinstein, an attorney, Air Force Academy graduate and former White House counsel who is Jewish, earned the enmity of the religious right, and galvanized it, with his crusade to end alleged undue influence by Christian fundamentalists in the military.
In 2009, Weinstein sued Klingenschmitt, who runs the Pray in Jesus Name Project, after he posted “curse prayers” that Weinstein alleged were actually coded messages to Klingenschmitt’s followers intended to incite violence against the Weinsteins.
A Dallas judge ultimately dismissed Weinstein’s lawsuit because he could not prove a causal connection between the former chaplain’s “imprecatory prayer” and a threatened or actual action.
Klingenschmitt subsequently filed the defamation action against Weinstein and the foundation in state district court in New Mexico because the Weinsteins live in Albuquerque and the foundation is organized under New Mexico law.
The lawsuit alleges Weinstein made statements on behalf of himself and the foundation in a 2009 radio interview and article in the Dallas Morning News that associated Klingenschmitt with acts of vandalism that occurred at Weinstein’s home – among them, windows shot out, beer bottles and feces thrown at it and slaughtered animals left at the front door.
This article was written by Scott Sandlin for the Albuquerque Journal.
Supreme Court hears Pro-Life "Bubble Zone" Free Speech Case
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Supreme Court hears Pro-Life “Bubble Zone” Free Speech Case
On Wednesday, January 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of McCullen v. Coakley, reports LifeNews.com.
“Pro-life activists in Massachusetts are challenging that state’s recently enacted BubbleZone, the most restrictive in the country.
“Under the law, pro-lifers may not speak to abortion clinic clients within 35 feet of the entrance, effectively scuttling their life-saving outreach. Clinic staff and ‘agents’—effectively any pro-choice person—are exempt.
“Eleanor McCullen and the other plaintiffs argue that the law is unconstitutional, since in both its intent and its effect it restricts only the speech of pro-lifers.
“Among the briefs filed with the court is testimony from women who chose life for their babies after speaking with sidewalk counselors.
“The pro-life plaintiffs are also asking thecourt to overturn their ruling in Hill v. Colorado which upheld a less restrictiveBubble Zone in 2000. Since then, similar laws have been enacted in many jurisdictions across the country—including aBubble Zone enacted in 2009 by the City of Chicago, where the League is headquartered.
“Three of the dissenters in Hill v. Colorado ruling—Justices Scalia, Thomas and Kennedy—are still on the court. Only Justices Ginsberg and Breyer remain from the majority. If any two of the new justices on the court—Kagan, Sotomayor, Alito and Roberts—were to side with the Hill minority, all the Bubble Zone laws in the country could be struck down.”
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: It’s one thing to kill children. It’s another to silence the prophets whose voice cries out in the streets, “Don’t kill your children.” Is there anyplace in America where the First Amendment does not apply to protect the speaker? If we are silent, even the rocks will cry out.]
Let’s petition Congress to define “Person” as Life beginning at conception.
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Abortionists ask Justice Scalia to block Texas Ban. Will SCOTUS intervene?
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been asked to restore abortion in Texas.
“Groups opposed to new restrictions on abortion in Texas filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court on Monday to halt part of a law that prompted a dozen clinics in the state to stop performing the procedure,” reports Reuters.
“The move is the latest step in a legal battle between the Republican-dominated state government of Texas and supporters of the right to abortion over the law that imposes some of the toughest restrictions in the United States.
“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave attorneys for the state of Texas untilNovember 12 to respond to the emergency request to halt a key provision in the law, according to court documents.
“The provision requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility in case women have complications.
Watch! Dr. Chaps’ 7-minute TV commentary on the Texas abortion ban–>
“At least a dozen clinics and surgery centers across the state stopped offering abortionsafter the law went into effect on Friday, saying that their doctors had been unable to secure admitting privileges, clinic employees said.
“One of the women whose abortion appointment was canceled was Marni Evans, an independent consultant in Austin, Texas. She told a conference call with reporters organized by Planned Parenthood that she isconsidering flying to Seattle, where she used to live, to terminate her pregnancy.
“Evans, 37, and her fiance made the decision to end the pregnancy for financial reasons, she said.
“My fiance and I are both self employed. We can barely afford our own healthcare, let alone a child,” Evans said. “We want to start a family some day, but we just can’t do it now.”
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: This is yet another way Obamacare encourages abortion: It takes away peoples ability to afford health care so they kill their children rather than pay bills.]
Let’s petition Congress to define “person” as any human life beginning at conception.
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Sen. Rand Paul’s “Life Begins at Conception Act.” Can it stop abortion?
The U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul (R) has introduced the “Life Begins At Conception Act” Senate Bill S. 583, which is modeled after “Personhood” legislation we supported in ballot initiatives in Mississippi, Colorado, and Florida.
The pro-life legislation simply applies the protections of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to unborn children, by defining them as “persons.” Personhood is a legal strategy that can potentially overturn Roe v. Wade and stop the abortion holocaust in America, as predicted by Justice Blackmun who wrote the 1973 ruling: “If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right tolife would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
Watch! Dr. Chaps’ 6 minute commentary on the new S. 583 “Life Begins at Conception Act” by Sen. Rand Paul. While I applaud the 15 Senators who co-sponsor S. 583, there is some concern this legislation does not go far enough.
For example, my friend Tom Hoefling, former political director for Alan Keyes presidential campaign and current Chairman of America’s Party, has drafted a free petition on http://faxcongress.com to amend S. 583 to make it even stronger in the protection of innocentlife. Tom writes:
“While we appreciate the declaration of principles that the Life at Conception Act represents, far more is needed than mere words to stop the daily killing of thousands of the weakest and most helpless among us…[The United States] Code must be stripped of provisions like the Laci Peterson law of 2004, Title 18, Chapter 1, §1841 and Title 10, Chapter 22 §919a, which, while rightly defining the child as an individual person, then allows the killing of certain classes of those innocent persons via the practice of human abortion. Without these amendments the legislation accomplishes little beyond mere political posturing.”
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: S.583 is a good first step, but we can do even better. So in addititon to signing my petition below, please also sign Tom Hoefling’s petition here.]
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God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,
Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhDWho is Dr. Chaps? Bio here.
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Court: Christian Chaplains should NOT get Promoted
A three judge panel in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that military chaplains who pray “in Jesus’ name” should suffer discrimination and denial of promotion by the U.S.military.
The “court panel has rejected an appeal brought by a group of former non-liturgical Navy chaplains who claim the Navy’s chaplain promotion process unfairly favors Catholic and liturgical Protestant chaplains,” reports One News Now.
65 evangelical chaplains have been suing the Navy since 1999, alleging that liberal chaplainswho sit on their promotion boards routinely “black-ball” their promotion boards for religious reasons.
Art Schulcz, an attorney representing the evangelical chaplains, said the court determined that any discrimination didn’t rise to a sufficient level to infer constitutional discriminatory intent.
“This court has officially approved discrimination as long as it’s not ‘stark’ – stark to be determined later,” he explains.
According to the attorney, the court also rejected his argument that the Navy’s promotion system allows one officer to effectively black-ball the promotion of any chaplain they don’t like.
“No record is kept of that,” he admits. “[But] if you are a Catholic and don’t like a Baptist or don’t like a charismatic, or if you’re liturgical and don’t like that particular brand of liturgicals,you can press the button and he will never get promoted. The Court of Appeals said that’s neutral on its face. That’s an absurd decision.”
Schulcz is asking the entire U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to hear the case, but he says if it doesn’t the only option is taking it to the U.S. Supreme Court.
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: How long, O Lord, shall we suffer? Now the courts approve the systematic elimination of chaplains who pray “in Jesus’ name.” Liberal senior Pharisees control the promotion boards, duty assignments, and evaluations of junior evangelicalchaplains, and drum them out, the same way they did to me in 2007.]
Let’s petition Congress to protect chaplains who pray “in Jesus’ name.”
Or you may choose our Free Petition Option Here.
No Jesus Prayers by Military Chaplains, say “Grinch” Senate Democrats. Take action!
Kyle Ebersole
Anti-Jesus Democrats in the Senate played the “Grinch” for military chaplains this Christmas,blocking legislation that would have clearly protected chaplains’ right to pray “in Jesus’name.”
The Democrat-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee, led by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) just stripped out two good religious freedom amendments from the House version of the Pentagon Budget, (2014 National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, H.R. 1960 and S.1197), and replaced them with empty promises to study whether or not religious freedom is under attack in the military since the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
In Conference Committee negotiations to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the NDAA, sections 529 and 530 appear to have been dropped, no longer writtenin the new combined House+Senate version, which can be read here.
Watch! Dr. Chaps’ 7-minute TV commentary on the Senate debate on the right to pray “in Jesus’ name” for military chaplains–>
Section 529 was stripped, but would have clearly protected military chaplains’ right to close a public prayer outside of religious services according to his or her own faith.
Section 530 was stripped, but would have clearly protected troops rights to express their moral beliefs “except in cases of military necessity.”
Now instead, the new bill introduces watered-down language in Sections 532 and 534, to protect religious expressions of belief “unless it could have an adverse impact onmilitary readiness, unit cohesion, and good order and discipline,” or in other words, whenever a complainer feels like a Christian’s religiious expression “COULD” offend a homose xual, that religious expression can be punished, depriving Christian troops of their guaranteed First Amendment rights.
Sadly too, the new combined House+Senate version in fails to protect chaplains right to prayfreely, instead it commissions a future (biased) survey of chaplains (that will be written to confirm “no problems”) to determine “whether restrictions placed on prayers offered in a public or non-religious setting have prevented military chaplains from exercising the tenets of their faith as prescribed by their endorsing faith group.”
I predict chaplains will try to report widespread persecution in the survey, yet the Obama Pentagon will discover “no persecution” of Chaplains who pray “in Jesus’ name.” Mark my words. The survey will be biased, and designed to sweep “Jesus prayers” under the rug.
Let’s petition Congress to defeat this weakened NDAA, and restore the stronger religious liberty sections 529 and 530 from the House version of the bill.
Or you may choose our Free Petition Option Here.
Two Chaplains punished for praying “in Jesus’ name.” Take action!
Two military chaplains, one Army and one Navy, have been booted by the Veterans Administration from a liberal hospital training program because they prayed “in Jesus’ name” and quotes scripture in the classroom during academic discussion.
Christian Press reports that “A lawsuit alleges that the leader of a San Diego-based Department of Veterans Affairs chaplain training program severely mocked two Christian participants because of their faith. One of the chaplains eventually left the program voluntarily because of the treatment; the program leader eventually ejected the other participant.”
Watch! Dr. Chaps’ 7-minute TV commentary on the two chaplains punished for their faith in Christ, here.
“Chaplains Maj. Steven Firtko, U.S. Army (Ret.) and Lt. Cmdr. Dan Klender, U.S. Navy, entered the San Diego VA-DOD Clinical Pastoral Education Center program in August 2012.
“Shortly thereafter, the program’s supervisor, Nancy Dietsch, began to harass the two men for their beliefs. On various occasions and without provocation, she admonished them not topray in Jesus’ name or cite Scripture, sometimes pounding her fists on her desk, accusing them of ‘not giving a rat’s ass’ about VA patients and other members of the military, and threatening to fail them. She continued to openly ridicule them and their beliefs openly inclass.
“In February, Klender voluntarily withdrew from the program solely because of Dietsch’s harassment. Firtko, whom Dietsch placed on probation, received a letter dated Feb. 15 from the VA and Dietsch notifying him that he would be dismissed from the program March 1. Both Klender and Firtko filed formal complaints with the VA in July.
“The lawsuit, Conservative Baptist Association of America v. Shinseki, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, explains that all administrative options have been exhausted and that the harassment that the chaplains endured violates the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Administrative Procedures Act, and the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: I attended Chaplain school with Klender, and he courageously prayed “in Jesus’ name” as I did. Later we were both punished. My story in 2006 taking a stand for Christ, and now his in 2013. Well done Dan and Steve! I pray with you for justice, in Jesus’name.]
Now let’s petition Congress to STOP the persecution of military chaplains…
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God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,
Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD
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