{"id":28605,"date":"2012-02-04T07:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28605"},"modified":"2012-02-04T07:30:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T11:30:03","slug":"big-army-silences-big-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28605","title":{"rendered":"Big Army silences Big Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at the National Review<\/a>, they report that last weekend the Army instructed catholic chaplains to not read from the pulpit the letter that Archbishop for the US Military Services Timothy Broglio wrote to instruct Catholics to resist the mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services requiring Catholics as well as everyone else to ignore their religious beliefs and their conscience on insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs.<\/p>\n

The Army\u2019s Office of the Chief of Chaplains subsequently sent an email to senior chaplains advising them that the Archbishop\u2019s letter was not coordinated with that office and asked that it not be read from the pulpit. The Chief\u2019s office directed that the letter was to be mentioned in the Mass announcements and distributed in printed form in the back of the chapel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Following a discussion between Archbishop Broglio and the Secretary of the Army, The Honorable John McHugh, it was agreed that it was a mistake to stop the reading of the Archbishop\u2019s letter. Additionally, the line: \u201cWe cannot \u2014 we will not \u2014 comply with this unjust law\u201d was removed by Archbishop Broglio at the suggestion of Secretary McHugh over the concern that it could potentially be misunderstood as a call to civil disobedience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m pretty sure that God [whatever name your God uses] doesn’t want us to have abortions (what with Him being known as The Creator and everything), but I object to government sponsorship of abortions on completely secular Constitutional grounds, specifically, the fifth amendment which says “No person shall be…deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law…” and there’s no due process involved in abortions. So the religion thing aside, it’s unconstitutional for the government to sponsor the killing of the unborn.<\/p>\n

I think it’s also unconstitutional for Big Army to interfere with the free exercise of religion. And if they’re so concerned about “civil disobedience” why didn’t Big Army prosecute Dan Choi when he chained himself to the White House fence while in uniform? Is some civil disobedience OK, while some is not? Can we get a list of Army-approved civil disobedience actions? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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