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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

U.S. Navy Booting Bibles From Base Lodges

Update 8/15/14:  Just when we thought the ship had sailed on Navy Lodge Bibles, its leadership is changing course. The same week that employees blew the whistle on the purge, Navy brass have stepped in to overrule the Lodge management. While housekeepers were busy tossing Bibles into lost and found bins, the chain of command says it was never alerted to the change.

Until the social media firestorm, senior leaders said they had no idea the facilities were stripping the books out of nightstand drawers. As soon as they heard, the Navy put a stop to it. Until a final policy can be reached, officers have ordered the Bibles back. "That decision and our religious accommodation policies with regard to the placement of religious materials are under review," Navy spokesman Commander Ryan Perry told Stars and Stripes. "While that review is under way, religious materials removed from Navy Lodge rooms will be returned." [Source: Family Research Council]
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Update 9:35 PM, 8/12/14: Late last week, the Pentagon defended the National Guard in Missouri for allowing these same Bibles to be distributed to new recruits. It's time those same leaders came to the defense of the Gideons' partnership with Navy hotels -- otherwise, the only thing guests will be lodging is complaints. Register yours by calling 757-631-3600 or 757-502-7496 and ask Rear Admiral Robert Bianchi and Michael Bockelman to reinstate the Bibles in Navy Lodges! [ Family Research Council ]
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Chris Woodward & Jody Brown, OneNewsNow: A national traditional-values group is taking the U.S. Navy to task for directing that Gideon Bibles be removed from every hotel room on its military bases.

A June 19 directive from NEXCOM (Navy Exchange Service Command) has resulted in housekeepers at Navy Lodges and base hotels being instructed to remove Gideon-placed Bibles from the rooms and put them in boxes that would be taken to donation centers. One of those housekeepers informed the American Family Association (AFA) of the new policy via an email.

In an Action Alert to its supporters on Monday, AFA says the directive orders lodge managers to contact base commanders and chaplains and facilitate removing the Bibles and other "religious material currently in the guest rooms." According to the NEXCOM directive, the action is to be completed by September 1.

AFA's director of governmental affairs, Sandy Rios, finds the Navy's move upsetting. She says Christians need to fight back.

"We can't let this stand," she stated on American Family Radio today. "The Air Force did this ... when Mikey Weinstein, now the famous atheist, came after them. But there was a lot of pushback and so they reversed their decision.

"That's what we have to do this time," she continued. "We have to shout loudly on behalf of our service members and their families who would be staying in these facilities."

In 2012, the Air Force tried to remove Bibles from its lodgings but reversed itself after public outcry. AFA has urged its supporters to contact both Rear Admiral Robert Bianchi, asking him to reverse the decision; and Michael Bockelman, VP NEXCOM, who actually approved and signed the directive.

Both AFA and Fox News point out the directive came after an atheist group – Freedom From Religion Foundation – filed a formal complaint over the placement of Bibles in the rooms.

Pattern of religious hostility in the military

Mike Berry is director of military affairs for Liberty Institute, which is based in Plano, Texas.

"Many of our military's religious traditions and observances pre-date America's founding, but groups like the Freedom From Religion Foundation want to erase that history," states Berr.

"We've seen Bibles temporarily banned from military hospitals, demands that veterans' memorials be torn down, and crosses removed from military chapels. This is just the latest in a well-documented pattern of hostility against religion in our military."

He points out the Department of Defense issued a directive in January that strengthened religious rights for service members - then asks: "How is that possible when the Navy decides that Bibles are no longer allowed in guest rooms? It appears that the Navy does not want its Sailors to enjoy religious freedom."
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Editor's Note: The American Family Association is the parent organization of the American Family News Network, which operates OneNewsNow.com.

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3 Comments:

Anonymous Jay Clark said...

Who's directive?

8/12/2014  
Blogger Bill Smith said...

The Navy Exchange Service Command

8/12/2014  
Anonymous Ulysses Olson said...

More and more we remove God from America, more and more he removes us from Him!

8/13/2014  

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