Navy chaplain being booted from service
Commanders ruled Klingenschmitt's 'in Jesus name' too sectarianWorldNetDaily: A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the U.S. Navy to dismiss Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who earned the ire of his commanders with his prayers "in Jesus' name," from his 16-year career as early as today. The result is that the U.S. Navy ordered him immediately to prepare for his dismissal from the service, which would happen by midnight tonight. To further punish him, his commander informed him that the chief of naval operations had contacted the Conservative Political Action Conference, where Klingenschmitt had been invited to deliver the invocation tonight, and had his invitation rescinded. [Read More]
ARRA Breaking News Update: Gordon Klingenschmitt has advised the ARRA editor that Last night he received orders to separate by 1 Mar 07, so this morning he signed the DD 214 ending his 16 year military career. Anyone wishing to call him for an interview may reach him at 719-360-5132 (cell phone). Read about Kingenschmitt's struggle to defend Chaplains' right to pray
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Posted by Bill Smith at 3:33 PM - Post Link
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We received a post challenging the cited news' reports concerning Chaplain Klingenschmitt. The comments we anonymous. Thus, we could not validate if the person was a real chaplain or if they had a basis for the comments. Therefore, we could not in publish the majority of the comments. Note the poster said "I don't expect you to publish my dissent."
However, we are publishing a portion of the comment:
"As a conservative Christian Navy Chaplain ,,, I am ashamed at the way ,,, people have ignorantly believed Klingenschmitt's ... He has played you like fools. A disgusted Conservative and Christian Navy Chaplain, who by the way gave up rank to come into the Navy."
We accept varying and opposing positions but character assignation cannot be accepted without attribution. We invite the person [posted name withheld] to contact us by posting another comment using the same posting name: provide email address and ask the editor to contact you. We will not publish the comment but will contact the person to request info supporting their position.
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