"Agitator" Chaplain Klingenschmitt's comments on the "new" House legislation... 1) THE FIRST AMENDMENT ALREADY ALLOWS CHAPLAINS FREEDOM "TO PRAY ACCORDING TO THE DICTATES OF THEIR CONSCIENCE." (Is any phrase more distinctly American than this? Even Congressman Israel voted for this, he just w
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This is a difficult answer to parse down to a
principle.
I am most familiar with Islamic practice in the
Middle East (Iraq, Jordan and Egypt). While Friday is usually taken as
part of the weekend in those counties, Friday is not considered the Sabbath --
so there is no reli
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I would
think that there's a difference -- the sort of difference in quantity that
becomes a difference in quality -- between skipping a couple of days and
skipping every Friday afternoon. It may be worth accommodating students
even in the latter instance, but I'm not sur
It seems that the question on the table is
the “rights” of military chaplains, especially evangelical
Protestant ones who seem to be at the forefront of the agitation here.
But their “rights” have to be understood
in context. The military chaplaincies were not established in order to
House Injects
Prayer Into Defense Bill
By Alan Cooperman and Ann Scott TysonWashington Post Staff
WritersFriday, May 12, 2006; A05
The House passed a $513 billion defense authorization bill yesterday that
includes language intended to allow chaplains to pray in the name of Jesus at
public
Interested in the note, I mention of the contrast
dealing with religion in the schools in France. One of the problems
in France included prohibition of Israel students missing school for a religious
holiday, prohibition of Muslim students wearing a headscarf in class (including
wearing it w
Some Muslim students have requested that Howard County Maryland schools release them early from school to attend Muslim services Friday afternoons.Any advice for our County Board on this one? Here we take not just the major Christian holidays off, but also Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, if I recall
