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NAVY CHAPLAIN PROTESTS HIS RIGHT
TO PRAY "IN JESUS NAME"
Parts 1 & 2
Featured Guest:
Navy Chaplain LT.
Gordon James Klingenschmitt
An Annie Armen LIVE EXCLUSIVE, HEART
TO HEART INTERVIEW, this time giving a voice to our
military chaplains, and their right to pray according to
their individual faith.
PART 1 --
A MUST LISTEN
Aired 07/19/06
PART 2 --
A MUST LISTEN
Aired 07/20/06
Navy Chaplain LT. Gordon
James Klingenschmitt was punished for praying "in Jesus
Name".
In his words:
"Those who try to practice their own faith, and
dare
to challenge senior
officers for ethical and legal violations, are silenced,
punished, and removed from the Navy. Why should any
junior chaplain be disciplined and stripped of his
uniform, for privately protesting the religious abuse of
his on-duty Sailors, for declining on religious grounds
to attend a mandatory church that contradicts his faith,
and for proposing the equal option to invite off-duty
Sailors to an optional church that may better suit their
faith?"
(Page
4, SEVEN SHOCKING PRESS RELEASES)
"Chaplain Gordon James
Klingenschmitt faces termination of his
14-year active duty
military career without retirement, after his ship's
commanding officer relieved the chaplain of duty and
transferred
him ashore, for quoting
Bible verses John 3:3 and John 3:36
during an optionally
attended memorial service in the base chapel.
Documents on his
website at
persuade.tv suggest he was also disciplined for ending
his prayers with the phrase "in Jesus name," for
declining to support mandatory attendance quotas to a
pro-gay church, and for requesting Kosher meals to feed
a hungry Jewish Sailor who later lost 17 pounds.
The Navy is investigating." (Page
9, SEVEN SHOCKING PRESS RELEASES)
Kings James Version
John 3:3
"Most
assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God."
John 3:36
"He who believes in the Son
has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the
Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on
him."
"Navy Chaplain Gordon
James Klingenschmitt, whose career is now in jeopardy,
partly because he resisted government pressure and
claimed a right to pray "in Jesus name," responded:
Prayer is a
very personal act of
worship, and the government has no lawful authority to
invade a chaplain's conscience, nor force me to pray to
a different god, nor punish me for refusing to pray
'government-sanitized' prayers. Nor can they
discriminate by religious content,
to punish religious
diversity, nor exclude certain faiths from the public
microphone. If they allow Non-Christian chaplains
to pray at public ceremonies, they must allow Christian
chaplains too."
(Page
14, SEVEN SHOCKING PRESS RELEASES)
Third District Representative Walter B. Jones
(R-NC) renewed his call for the President to
protect the constitutional right of military chaplains
to pray according to their faith!
Buckle up for an Annie
Armen LIVE Exclusive, HEART TO HEART Interview with
Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt you don't want to
miss!!!
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