Bachmann military prayer amendment defeated

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Oh yes.. Absolutely! I personally want the same Navy Champlain that blesses the Predator Drone to kill as many people as possible to attend the Ice Cream Social in my community.. If I were to write a book on how Christianity is going to commit suicide, Michele Bachmann would be the poster girl handing out the cyanide Jello shots.. If you want to kill your pathetic religion Michele >>KEEP IT UP!!

Can’t give the chaplains any prerogatives. How can society survive when citizens have prerogatives?

You simply can’t have people running around SAYING whatever they feel like! Speech needs to be protected, right? Speech needs to be limited, so no one is offended. In fact, why not limit the chaplains’ speech to a set of defined phrases approved by the collective? Then, everyone will be happy.

Jimmy..

The First Amendment is a slippery slope.. YES AND NO.. ARTICLE 1.. Government SHALL NOT respect the establishment of religion.. Go to your Church your Synagogue or go to your Mosque OR if you an Agnostic like me go to your Ice Cream Social.. Leave the nut job idiocy at the door if your gonna be a politician..

The christian rigtht wing has targetted our military. their ultimate goal is a religious based war in this country against anyone who does not share their hate filled views.

And that dear reader is exactly what we are fighting in Afghanistan, and around the world.

The brand name is different but the goals are the same.

And yes – free speech should be limited. If Germany had hate speech laws against religious hatred of the Jews back in the 1930s, and enforced them, Hitler would have spent his life in Jail.

And WWII and 50 million deaths and the holocaust would not have occurred.

According to http://faculty.ucc.edu/egh-damerow/fundamental_freedoms.htm:

“If we have freedom of religion, speech, and press, then surely we have a right to be left alone in our private thoughts and practices.”

Whether proselytizing or evangelizing, it is still preaching says this “unchurched” who values his freedom of privacy.

As a bumper sticker says: Lord, save me from your followers.

[...] Minnesota Independent: “After pressure from church-state separation groups, House leaders rejected Rep. Michele Bachmann’s amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which would’ve allowed chaplains to insert their personal religious beliefs into non-religious events.” [...]

@Jimmy –

Sorry, but the US military is not a branch of Focus on the Family. Constitutional prohibitions against a state religion still apply.

Free speech does not include preaching to a captive audience.

Bachmann would be foaming at the mouth if a Muslim chaplain started preaching Islam during an invocation.

Trust me, focus on the family, Robertson’s 700 Club, Jerry Fallwell’s moral majority have every intention of putting as many of their followers as possible into high government positions, high ranks in the military branches, and on the courts…..they have succeeded to a certain point. thanks to Bush/Cheney.

In fact, they “grandfathered” a lot of these people into government agencies during the last 3 months of their administration.

I listened to looney Michelle on the House floor this afternoon, and clearly, she is a very unstable and dangerous woman. Please Minnesota, you’re are wonderful people, you must have someone with character and integrity to send to DC because clearly, Bachmann is an embarrassment and an idealogue.

I couldn’t have said it better myself,tanglewood.

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SteveMD2 posted “The christian rigtht wing has targetted our military. their ultimate goal is a religious based war in this country against anyone who does not share their hate filled views.”

When I was in Navy bootcamp, the commander-in-chief REQUIRED all recruits to attend religious service on Sunday morning. You had a choice between catholic and protestant services. If you failed to attend, they came looking for you.

While in bootcamp I was selected to be a member of the Navy’s Bluejacket Choir. Every Sunday we were the guest church choir at popular churches around Chicago, including the chapel on the campus of Northwestern University.

The Christian right-wing commander-in-chief at the time was Lyndon Baines Johnson (D).

[...] of Bradlee Dean’s), who believes the separation of church and state is a myth and who this year proposed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would turn non-religious events into government sanctioned vehicles for the personal religious [...]