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| An Army chaplain leads a troop of soldiers in worship. On Thursday, President Barack Obama called a new conscience clause for chaplains that gives them the right to abstain from certain religious rituals that contradict their faith as "unnecessary and ill-advised." |
President Barack Obama called a conscience clause for military chaplains in the National Defense Authorization Act “unnecessary and ill-advised.”
The NDAA provision ordered that no member of the armed forces may require a chaplain to perform a rite or ceremony that violates the chaplain’s beliefs, and that chaplains may not be disciplined for refusing to perform such a ceremony.
The provision, which was introduced by now-former Missouri Rep. Todd Akin, was a response to Obama’s 2011 repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
Read more: http://times247.com/articles/obama-criticizes-conscience-clause-for-military-chaplains#ixzz2GyiXtCxb
The NDAA provision ordered that no member of the armed forces may require a chaplain to perform a rite or ceremony that violates the chaplain’s beliefs, and that chaplains may not be disciplined for refusing to perform such a ceremony.
The provision, which was introduced by now-former Missouri Rep. Todd Akin, was a response to Obama’s 2011 repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
Read more: http://times247.com/articles/obama-criticizes-conscience-clause-for-military-chaplains#ixzz2GyiXtCxb
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