The Catholic Church maintains something called Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA to ensure that Catholic serving in the US military are able to gain access to priests and religious services. They are chronically understaffed. 25% of the military is Catholic while 8% of military chaplains are. To fill that gap, priests are brought in on contract and from outside the military but in the government (GS priests). According to the General Counsel of the Archdiocese in an October 3rd release, these supplementary priests face legal penalties if they continue to serve even on a volunteer basis.
You can't get much dumber or more illegal than this. Priests do their work as a job but they also do their work as a vocation. No priest has the financial resources to defend themselves against the Feds. They are being denied the right to practice their vocation with their accustomed flock. That means weddings, baptisms, confessions, all these things are put on hold or must be done with care to avoid arrest.
This is outrageous. This is evil.
It's easy TM. Just get your moron friends to fund the government they are part of.
ReplyDeleteThis really is a bunch of whiny fools crying to each other about the huge injustice.
Very very entertaining actually.
Some things you don't get to hold hostage in this country. Is it different where you come from? I doubt it. Canadians always struck me as having more sense.
DeleteTM we have a secular country where I live. One of the few things I really dislike are religious states. This from a Buddhist who spends about 20 min a day on his knees.
ReplyDeleteFew things are more destructive to general freedom and you cannot argue with someone who says they talk to god. An amazingly stupid thing to do.
I don't hate anyone but you guys really lucked out with the Pope you have now, you were on a hellbound train before him.
It is very funny. Your whining makes it almost hilarious. Your quasi religious state is a nasty thing.
Funny enough, Canada has chaplains too.
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplain_Branch_(Canadian_Forces)
How do they manage that when they have a secular state? I expect they do it quite similarly to how the US does it.
I dunno. I was an army brat, lived on three continents and the Chaplains were a bit of a joke generally.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow your moron brigade has decided to, among other things, to try to nickle and dime the federal government into an unsustainable position, using the 'power of the purse'. One should expect similar treatment in return.
Oh dear me, you didn't pay attention. This *is* the "in return". Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2006.
DeleteHave fun with it. Politics as war. Oh yeah that will work out well.
ReplyDeleteI am royally entertained no matter what you do.