Navy Probes Religious Discrimination Claim

[maddezmom]

By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer
15 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - The Navy is investigating a chaplain's allegations he was punished for theological disagreements with superior officers, including his objections to requiring sailors to participate in services at a church that accepts homosexuality.


Lt. Gordon Klingenschmitt says he was transferred ashore and given a negative job recommendation because of the religious disagreements.

Other actions cited in Klingenschmitt's personnel records include his advocacy for a Jewish sailor who wanted kosher meals and his preaching of sermons that some sailors viewed as proselytizing and intolerant.

"I'm shocked that senior chaplains would force their faith on sailors and on me," said Klingenschmitt, who was chaplain on the cruiser USS Anzio, based in Norfolk, Va.

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[donco6]

1. Here's an idea:

How about getting rid of all of them? I mean, if the govt cannot proselytize, but is being pressured to admit "evangelical" chaplains (evangelical = 1) referring to Protestant Christians who spread the Christian Gospel as found in the biblical New Testament) how can that be reconciled?

[dxdem]

2. Dupe (not really, but you get my point)

Air Force Academy evangelical bias ’systemic,’ group says