{"id":40383,"date":"2017-03-29T00:15:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T03:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=40383"},"modified":"2017-03-29T23:04:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T02:04:36","slug":"chaplains-group-make-the-military-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/29\/chaplains-group-make-the-military-great-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplains Group: Make the Military Great Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/span>: Now covered at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/chaplain-group-army-s-diversity-directive-an-assault-on-religious-beliefs-1.461128\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40385\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/chaplainalliance.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"153\" \/>The Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty is calling on the new Acting Secretary of the Army, the Honorable Robert Speer, to reverse a last minute policy by outgoing Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning directing the Army to conduct &#8220;training on implicit or unconscious bias&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe military exists to protect our nation, not to be used as a laboratory for social engineering &#8212; and especially not from an outgoing official\u2019s 11th hour order,\u201d said Chaplain (COL) Ron Crews, USA (Retired)&#8230;\u201cThis directive does nothing to increase military readiness but wastes valuable training time just to promote a political agenda.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/files\/crewsspeer2.pdf\">letter (PDF)<\/a> notes that &#8220;implicit or unconscious bias&#8221; isn&#8217;t <!--more-->even <em>defined<\/em> by the Army &#8212; but there&#8217;s at least one strong possibility:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We believe this is a direct assault on those Army personnel who hold traditional Biblical beliefs concerning sexual ethics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given society&#8217;s view on sexuality and religion &#8212; a view likely repeated in that society&#8217;s military &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t seem like an unreasonable conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>At a practical level, the Chaplain Alliance notes Soldiers don&#8217;t need yet one more training event to force them to focus on something besides combat readiness.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Secretary Speer is a holdover from the Obama administration, the letter was also copied to Secretary of Defense James Mattis.<\/p>\n<p>The letter is signed by more than a dozen chaplain endorsers representing more than 50% of chaplains in the US military.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/files\/crewsspeer1.pdf\">press release here<\/a>.\u00a0 Also at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/national-security\/2017\/03\/28\/chaplains-make-armed-forces-great-again-too\">OneNewsNow<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Now covered at the Stars and Stripes. 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