Soldier alleges military pattern of Christian bias »
Posted By Progressive 11 months ago in ReligionAn atheist soldier suing over prayers at military formations claims a larger pattern of religious discrimination exists in the military, citing attempts to convert Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan and an evangelical bias in a suicide prevention manual.
The expanded lawsuit filed Monday by Spc. Dustin Chalker and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation in U.S. District Court in Kansas City also claims the military doesn't take complaints of religious discrimination seriously enough.
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bubba210 months, 4 weeks ago
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The government is supposed to be totally non-discriminatory when it comes to religion and religious preference.
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But there have been MANY claims against the government for religious discrimination, and many of those recent claims are from soldiers in our armed forces.
No one that works for the government or the military should ever have any specific religion forced upon them, nor should they ever be expected or required to participate in any religious service or ceremony or prayer if they do not subscribe to the specific religion involved.
http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/-
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KISA452a10 months, 4 weeks ago
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"The government is supposed to be totally non-discriminatory when it comes to religion and religious preference."
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This includes being totally non-discriminatory AGAINST religion. It is hard to implement, I agree. As we keep hearing, Atheists want protection using first amendment grounds of freedom of religion. At the same time, they claim not to be a religion in which case this does not apply to them. If they get protection they are a religion and others deserve the same protections. If the government is "non-religious", that would be Atheist. Enforcing atheism is enforcing this brand of religion or is against religion and religious practices.
People should not be forced to pray if they do not chose to. They can be forced to be polite and observe a moment of silence to let those who wish to pray to do so. That is a reasonable compromise to my mind.
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memestryker10 months, 4 weeks ago
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It's sad that there is such a push to proselytize to people not just in the military, but just about everywhere.
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Here is a religion that relies on an interpretation of a 2000-year-old book of folklore to judge gays and sideline women, and it's being forced on us at every turn (even at the coming U.S. presidential inauguration).
It's time for more people to make their voices heard. Good for Spc. Chalker for carrying the banner for religious minorities, agnostics, and atheists. I'd love to see the first amendment grow some teeth. -
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ConsAreNonGrata10 months, 4 weeks ago
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You would think Christians would not enter an institution whose sole job is to protect or take earthly treasures in the first place.
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Homosexuals are going to H$@! because they engage in behavior antithetical to Christian teachings, but the people who worry about earthly treasures over Heaven are A-OK, because... well, that part of the teachings just didn't count.
Selective Christianity at its best. -
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antibrainwasher10 months, 4 weeks ago
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Bless our troops, baby jew jesus, bless our military industrial complex, bless, baby jew jesus, general dynamics, bless our lockheed martin figher jets, bless our hydrogen fission bombs, bless boeing, bless blackwater and our mercinaries, and bless the big oil haliburton business men who profit from billions of tax free tax dollars as they sell the Saudis and the Israeli's their private armies, to protect them from the regular armies, and bless, baby jew jesus, the bullets our beloved small town hicks shoot and may they blast the face off the children that are not from our tribe of north american christians. This we ask in the baby demi-god baby jew's name, oh holy mary, married yet virgin mother of the god/human hybrid demi-god, the jewish mother of the little baby jew jesus, our favorite mythology next to cinderella, amen.
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antibrainwasher10 months, 4 weeks ago
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Let us all, kneel and telepathically communicate with the baby jew jesus, and ask him to cast all jews and muslims and soul-less atheists from the blessed united states military. For they will never enter heaven, and are just worm food. Let us give thanks to the baby jew jesus for his promice of eternal life, in the walmart of heaven, where all the heathen chinese made plastic goodies are free for eternity, to decorate the double wide in the sky.
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Baby jew jesus, forgive us our whanking to pictures in magazines, and we ask the baby demi-god to convert as many of our buddist and hindu and jewish and atheist and what ever false profit sinners there are, so that the walmart in the sky will have lots of invisible floating dead customers.
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KISA452a10 months, 4 weeks ago
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another example without the facts...
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"Chalker had to attend events at Fort Riley where Christian prayers were given." Completely legal... Maybe if they are required activities but if this statement is a problem it would suggest that a private function on a military base can not have a prayer. Obviously rediculous.
"citing attempts to convert Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan" Which specific example? I recall something like this, they were handing out coins or something... and the soldiers were disciplined.
"including the two soldiers' desire to distribute Bibles. " So, it is illegal for soldiers to have desires to distribute bibles???
"criticizes the Army's 2008 manual on suicide prevention, quoting it as promoting "religiosity" as a necessary part of prevention and describing "connectivity to the divine" as "fundamental." I need to see the text... It has been decided numerous times that allusion to a "higher being" is not illegal. Depends on what is said...
"the Air Force sponsored "Team Faith," which performs motocross stunt shows to "lead extreme sports athletes to Christ."" Not so sure about this one since I have not heard of something like this.
He may be right, but the examples presented here are without detail and not particularly convincing.
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