Tag Archive - House of Representatives

UN Chief in Afghanistan Calls for ‘Disciplinary Actions’ Against Those Involved in Qur’an ‘Desecration’

By 5 March 2012. Filed in News & Commentary.

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UN Chief in Afghanistan Calls for ‘Disciplinary Actions’ Against Those Involved in Qur’an ‘Desecration’ | CNSNews.com

UN Chief in Afghanistan Calls for ‘Disciplinary Actions’ Against Those Involved in Qur’an ‘Desecration’ | CNSNews.comhttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/un-chief-afghanistan-calls-disciplinary-actions-against-those-involved-qur-desecration(CNSNews.com) – The top United Nations official in Afghanistan has raised eyebrows with comments urging disciplinary action against those found to be responsible for damaging copies of the Qur’an at the U.S. military base in Bagram.

For Jan Kubis, head of the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and secretary-general Ban Ki-moon’s special representative in Afghanistan, multiple U.S. apologies – including one from President Obama – and an order from International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) commander Gen. John Allen that all 130,000 coalition troops in the country “complete training in the proper handling of religious materials” by this past Saturday, have not been sufficient.

Chaplains object to DOJ decision to not defend DOMA for service members

By 27 February 2012. Filed in News & Commentary.

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ADF Alliance Alert » news from the frontlines of the culture warhttp://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/24/chaplains-object-to-doj-decision-to-not-defend-doma-for-service-members/WASHINGTON — The Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, acting on behalf of more than half of America’s uniformed chaplains, is expressing concern about the U.S. Department of Justice’s recent refusal to defend the Department of Defense against a lawsuit concerning benefits for same-sex couples in the military.

Local Army Chaplain Opens House Session With Prayer

By 26 February 2012. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Local Army Chaplain Opens House Session With Prayer | The Pilot: Southern Pines, NChttp://www.thepilot.com/news/2012/feb/24/local-army-chaplain-opens-house-session-with/U.S. Rep. Howard Coble welcomed an Army chaplain from Moore County to Capitol Hill last week as the guest chaplain for the House of Representatives.

All 4 GOP Candidates OK With Women in Combat

By 25 February 2012. Filed in News & Commentary.

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All 4 GOP Candidates OK With Women in Combat | CNSNews.com

All 4 GOP Candidates OK With Women in Combat | CNSNews.comhttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/all-4-gop-candidates-ok-women-combat(CNSNews.com) – What do the Republican presidential hopefuls think about women moving closer to the front lines of combat, the four men were asked at Wednesday’s CNN-hosted debate in Arizona.

All indicated varying degrees of support.

Defense Bill Will Not Include Provision Legalizing Sodomy, Bestiality in Military

By 15 December 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Defense Bill Will Not Include Provision Legalizing Sodomy, Bestiality in Military | CNSnews.com

Defense Bill Will Not Include Provision Legalizing Sodomy, Bestiality in Military | CNSnews.comhttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/defense-bill-will-not-include-provision-legalizing-sodomy-bestiality-military

A House-Senate conference committee has dropped Senate-approved language that would have removed sodomy and bestiality – sex with animals — from military law in the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act.

A spokesman for the House Armed Services Committee told CNSNews.com Wednesday that the Obama administration had “made its pitch” on repealing Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice related to sodomy – but the members of the conference committee “were not persuaded” that the change was needed.

Senator: Let chaplains say no to same-sex weddings

By 14 December 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Senator's proposal targets same-sex weddings – USATODAY.com

Senator’s proposal targets same-sex weddings – USATODAY.comhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2011-12-13/chaplains-same-sex-weddings/51888074/1A proposal by Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker that would let military chaplains refuse to perform same-sex weddings is expected to come up for a vote this week in the House and Senate.

“Chaplains should not be forced to violate their beliefs in order to serve their country,” said Wicker, a Republican on the Armed Services Committee.

Rabbi-Chaplains of the Civil War

By 12 December 2011. Filed in History.

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Rabbi-Chaplains of the Civil War - NYTimes.com

Rabbi-Chaplains of the Civil War – NYTimes.comhttp://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/rabbi-chaplains-of-the-civil-war/Rabbi Dr. Arnold Fischel arrived at the White House on the morning of Dec. 11, 1861, prepared to act as a one-man lobby for the constitutional rights of Jews. He had traveled alone from New York, on his own dime, bringing several letters of recommendation from prominent Republicans and one from the Board of Delegates of American Israelites, then just three years old and the country’s only national Jewish organization.

One of Abraham Lincoln’s private secretaries told Fischel that there was little chance of a meeting. But the rabbi was persistent, taking his place among hundreds of people hoping to see the president, some of whom had been waiting for three days. To Fischel’s surprise, Lincoln immediately received him with “marked courtesy.” The rabbi stated the reason for his visit: On behalf of the American Jewish community, including several thousand soldiers fighting for the Union, he hoped the president might reconsider a discriminatory law forbidding his people to serve as chaplains.

It was a controversial proposition, and one that had its roots in the very onset of the war. Five months earlier, Lincoln had called a special session of Congress and requested a $400,000,000 budget to fight the Confederacy, a portion of which provided for the inclusion of chaplains in the Volunteer Army. The ink had barely dried on the proposed draft when Representative Clement Vallandigham, a non-Jew, objected to its wording — that a chaplain be a “regularly ordained clergyman of some Christian denomination.”

No Senators Spoke Out as the Senate Voted to Repeal Military Laws Against Sodomy and Sex With Animals

By 6 December 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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No Senator Spoke Out Against Repeal of Military's Ban on Sodomy and Bestiality | CNSnews.com

No Senator Spoke Out Against Repeal of Military’s Ban on Sodomy and Bestiality | CNSnews.comhttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/no-senators-spoke-out-senate-voted-repeal-military-laws-against-sodomy-and-sex-animalsNot a single member of the Senate spoke out last week against a provision of the defense authorization bill, which removes sodomy and sex with animals — bestiality — from the list of prosecutable crimes for the U.S. military.The Senate voted 93 to 7 last Thursday evening to approve the National Defense Authorization Act, which contained a provision to repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

Article 125 of the UCMJ makes it illegal for anyone in the U.S. military to engage “in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal.”

Defense Bill Could Award Kapaun Medal Of Honor

By 3 December 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Defense Bill Could Award Kapaun Medal Of Honor

Defense Bill Could Award Kapaun Medal Of Honorhttp://www.kake.com/news/headlines/Defense_Bill_Could_Award_Kapaun_Medal_Of_Honor_134929913.htmlAn Army chaplain and war hero from Kansas who died while a prisoner of war during the Korean War may soon be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Senate Poised to Legalize Sodomy and Bestiality in U.S. Military

By 1 December 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Senate Poised to Legalize Sodomy and Bestiality in U.S. Military | CNSnews.com

Senate Poised to Legalize Sodomy and Bestiality in U.S. Military | CNSnews.comhttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/senate-poised-legalize-sodomy-and-bestiality-us-militaryThe Senate this evening is poised to vote on a defense authorization bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, but also repeals the military ban on sex with animals–or bestiality.

On Nov. 15, the Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously approved S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision to repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

Article 125 of the UCMJ makes it illegal to engage in both sodomy with humans and sex with animals.

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