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Military Chaplins (stated Sunday wasn't Monday below)
Posted: Oct 6, 2013
Guess Hagel decided it wasn't worth the effort to try to fight the House vote. Still, they go back TOMORROW (Monday), not TODAY (Sunday), but I don't know if the order to arrest them if they provide services still qualifies. Don't see anythihng in the news that states they were allowed to do it today.
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Just a few short days ago, Military contracted priests were emphatically told that they would be arrested if they attempted to conduct services on military bases during the government shutdown. An editorial by John Schlageter, from the Archdiocese for Military Services, regarding the furlough of contracted priests prompted the House to pass a measure calling on Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to restore the civilian Military chaplains to their posts.
With a near-unanimous vote of 400 to 1, the House voted to mandate that military installations continue to provide religious services during the shutdown. The only no vote came from Rep. William Enyart, (D-IL).
The vote was not an appropriations measure. It was a “resolution” designed to ensure that the religious freedoms under the First Amendment for military personnel would not be threatened because of a government shutdown. The resolution was sponsored by Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), who also serves as an Air Force Reserve Chaplain.
The resolution was brought to the floor of the House along with a bill to pay furloughed federal employees for their time away from the job. Just after the House vote, Secretary Hagel announced that Defense Department attorneys had interpreted the “Pay Our Military” Act so that approximately 400,000+ furloughed civilian Defense Department workers could come back to work based on their responsibilities toward the general ”morale, well-being, capabilities and readiness of service members.”
One by one, the Congress appears to be able to get a clue on certain specific issues. Allowing our contracted Military chaplains, most of whom are Catholic, to return to work is a step in the right direction.
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