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Title: Army Probes Claim That Soldiers Were Punished For Skipping A Christian Concert
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
URL Source: http://www.newser.com/article/d9hng ... pping-a-christian-concert.html
Published: Aug 20, 2010
Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Post Date: 2010-08-20 20:24:58 by Brian S
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Comments: 2

The Army said Friday it was investigating a claim that dozens of soldiers who refused to attend a Christian band's concert at a Virginia military base were banished to their barracks and told to clean them up.

Fort Eustis spokesman Rick Haverinen told The Associated Press he couldn't comment on the specifics of the investigation. At the Pentagon, Army spokesman Col. Thomas Collins said the military shouldn't impose religious views on soldiers.

"If something like that were to have happened, it would be contrary to Army policy," Collins said.

Pvt. Anthony Smith said he and other soldiers felt pressured to attend the May concert while stationed at the Newport News base, home of the Army's Transportation Corps.

"My whole issue was I don't need to be preached at," Smith said in a phone interview from Phoenix, where he is stationed with the National Guard. "That's not what I signed up for."

Smith, 21, was stationed in Virginia for nearly seven months for helicopter electrician training when the Christian rock group BarlowGirl played as part of the "Commanding General's Spiritual Fitness Concerts."

Smith said a staff sergeant told 200 men in their barracks they could either attend or remain in their barracks. Eighty to 100 decided not to attend, he said.

"Instead of being released to our personal time, we were locked down," Smith said. "It seemed very much like a punishment."

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation first reported on the Christian concert. The foundation said it was approached by soldiers who were punished for not attending or offended by the religious theme of the event.

The group's president, Mikey Weinstein, claims Christian-themed events are "ubiquitous" throughout the military, and he credited the soldiers for stepping forward.

"Whenever we see this egregious, unconstitutional religious tyranny our job is to fight it," he said.

Smith said he and the other soldiers were told not to use their cell phones or personal computers and ordered to clean up the barracks.

About 20 of the men, including several Muslims, refused to attend the concert based on their religious beliefs, he said.

Smith said he went up the chain of command and traced the concert edict to a captain, who said he simply wanted to "show support for those kind of events that bring soldiers together."

While not accepting blame, the officer apologized to the soldiers who refused to attend the concert and said it was not his intent to proselytize, he said.

"But once you get in there, you realize it's evangelization," Smith said.

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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)

Chaplains are paid by Congressional appropriation.

war  posted on  2010-08-21   8:50:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: war (#1)

When I was in Phase One of the Special Forces Qualification course, Chaplains came out one Sunday and hardly anyone showed for the services.

So a member of the housing unit's cadre called a student formation and said, "OK, we are gonna do this by the numbers; all of you fucking Catholics get in a formation here,' and he indicated a spot to start forming up. "All of you fucking Protestants form up here, and the rest of you ate the fuck up atheists form up here," as he indicated to more points for rank and file formations to form.

An officer - one of many foreign officers in the course - from Jordan said, "Sergeant, I am not a Christian or an atheist, I am a Muslim and a man of God...."

"Sir," the Sergeant interrupted, I don't care what kind of fucked up shit you are, get in one of the three groups, TODAY!"

Needless to say, this Staff Sergeant wound up being reassigned to someplace in the JFK Center for Military Assistance where he couldn't start a war between Muslim countries and the US over his anal retentive, and myopic way of doing things.

There is a real problem with pushy and overzealous types in the military. Personally, I would kill several of the worst on each post and leave their heads on Pikes at the gate as a warning to the rest of them.

But maybe that would be just as much an over reaction as the holy rollers are always guilty of.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2010-08-21   19:35:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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