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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Freedom Of Speech, Freedom Of Religion...Really???


It has shamefully become clear that in America your freedom of religion and speech are no longer constitutionally guaranteed rights under the Obama “lead from behind” presidential model.  I have reproduced comments below I recently read from Tony Perkins that every American should be outraged over. My own comments are italicized in red: 

“Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk was brought into an internal dispute over a class at Lackland Air Force Base. His superior (and open homosexual) Major Elisa Valenzuela was irate that a trainer suggested that same-sex "marriage" was a divisive issue that could have devastating effects on America. When Valenzuela caught wind of the comments, she solicited Monk's advice on how to punish the trainer. He suggested that they use the moment as an opportunity to teach tolerance for all opinions.”

“That infuriated Valenzuela, who demanded to know Monk's stance on marriage (after first warning him that supporting homosexual "marriage" is "official military policy.) He refused to answer, explaining to her that if he did, there would surely be consequences.”

“Turns out, he was right. After 19 years of spotless service, Monk was relieved of his duties. In an interview with Fox News's Todd Starnes, Monk was almost speechless. "I was essentially fired for not validating my commander's position [regarding] homosexuality," Air Force representatives shocked everyone by reading Monk his Miranda rights and informing him that he was now the subject of a criminal investigation. They claim Monk made "false public statements" to Fox News -- specifically that he claimed he was being targeted because of his Christian beliefs…”This was retaliation against me for coming forward with my religious discrimination complaint." So much for the Pentagon's insistence that they would never court-martial service members for their faith!”

“Two years removed from the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" debate (which the Pentagon vowed would have no effect on the military's treatment of marriage), our service members are being told that there's no longer a place in the service for people who agree with the majority of Americans (and 37 states) on marriage -- or worse, prosecuted for holding beliefs that, until recently, even President Obama shared!” (My comment: He’s really good at the “Change” part, not so much on the “Hope” part.)

“At a time when the Air Force is defending drag queen acts on military installations, Christians deserve the same kind of tolerance. When the cross-dressing show came under fire, Brigadier General Tammy Smith, the first openly gay general, said, "I would ask you to also give space to people to be authentically who they are." Shouldn't the same apply to Christians? In the Obama military, anyone can live proudly and openly -- unless they're believers.”
  • President Obama announced his opposition to a provision in the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act protecting the rights of conscience for military chaplains.
  • Officials briefing U.S. Army soldiers included "Evangelical Christianity" and "Catholicism" along with the terrorist organizations Al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas as examples of "religious extremism."
  • Servicemen expressing their religious position on homosexuality are receiving severe and possibly career-ending reprimands.
  • A senior military official at Fort Campbell sends out a lengthy e-mail instructing officers to recognize "the religious right in America" as a "domestic hate group," (akin to the KKK and Neo-Nazis) because of its opposition to homosexual behavior.
  • An Air Force officer is told to remove a Bible from his desk because "it might offend someone

Does any of this chill you to the bone?  Do you realize the potential for allowing this as it applies to anyone else who hold a belief, opinion, viewpoint other than the approved governmental speak?  You all know by now that I believe we are charged to love homosexuals just as we would anyone, but that does not mean we condone all behaviors or see them as right.  Without freedom of speech and religion, we are nothing as a country.  It is the underpinning of all that created America.  How can this be allowed in the very military that is the defender of all that we stand for?


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