Honor guardsman is fired for blessings

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11/19/1863

Imagine the trouble former President Lincoln would have been in when he dedicated the veterns cemetary at Gettysburg Pennsylvania.

.............................It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this
nation UNDER GOD shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

 

[Eamonn Wright]

It seems to me that he chose to follow a "pamphlet" given to him by the cemetary, and not the protocols of the Dept of Military & Veterans Affairs, who just happens to employ him. He was told what he could say, and what to refrain from saying, and he refused to follow orders from superiors. Case closed as far as I'm concerned.

That being said, I don't necessarily agree with the protocol, and the tattle-tail weenie who ran to the brass should be slapped down as well.

 

[Archie]

Odd.

Have you noticed it's only Christians who violate the "church-state" thing? I've never read of a Muslim or Hindu or rhododendron worshipper fired for religious intolerance.

This is just another episode in the ongoing attempt to remove Christianity from the mainstream. The State of New Jersey and the administrators of the cemetary should be deeply ashamed of their narrow minded, prejudicial views. But they are not, and that makes them good Democrats.

 

[RobW]

We are in the midst of a cultural war. I just don't understand that some "elitists" want to replace the culture that WAS the United States of America with something inferior.

Oh, oh, yes, I understand, that would make the "elite" invulnerable.

Advice for the elitists: study a little the French Revolution, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot...
and when you still feel comfortable, continue to drag the USA into the sewer.

Talking to members of different christian sects, I always laughed about their theories of "the antichrist" and "Armageddon". I don't know if I would laugh today.

 

[bobs1066]

Archie, do you think the guy would have been in the clear if he had been saying, "Allah be with you in your time of grief"?

 

[Marko Kloos]

Closed as OT.