The true goal of the chair was to establish that Christian evangelists, including chaplains, were having their religious expressions unjustly limited. This hearing was a set up to prove that, even with these new protections, Christians were being mistreated and oppressed. Congress would therefore be compelled, in the next annual NDAA, to provide unprecedented legal protections beyond those already the law. This claim of persecution of Christians is not new. The Family Research Council and others have been making hyped up, often false, accusations for the past several years. Many of these claims of persecution have been debunked and completely discredited. In reality, it is ultra conservative Christians, and the evangelistic chaplains who share their strict partisan biblical opinions, who are unhappy with the cultural changes in the Military. The real elephant in the room at this hearing was the repeal of the Dont Ask, Dont Tell(DADT) law and the finding by the Supreme Court that portions of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) were unconstitutional. Is it purely coincidental that the members of Congress participating in this hearing, as well as the conservative members of the panel, were some of the strongest obstructionists to the repeal of DADT and staunch supporters of DOMA?
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:09:46 +0000
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