By Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr.
Can chaplains committed to historic biblical Christianity serve in the United States military? That question, though inconceivable to our nation’s founders, is now front and center. And the answer to that question will answer another, even more important question: Can religious liberty survive under America’s new moral order?
The repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, coupled with the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, set the stage for this crisis. The full normalization of same-sex relationships within the U.S. military is part of the unprecedented moral revolution that is now reshaping American culture at virtually every level.
The crisis in the chaplaincy arrived with these developments. The presenting issue is clear: Can a chaplain committed to historic biblical Christianity remain in military service? Does the normalization of homosexuality require that all members of the military, including chaplains, join the moral revolution, even if doing so requires them to abandon their biblical convictions?
The answer, at least from the advocates of the moral revolution, is that evangelical Christian chaplains must go—and Southern Baptist chaplains must go first.
Read more at http://www.albertmohler.com/2013/09/17/can-evangelical-chaplains-serve-god-and-country-the-crisis-arrives/
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Tom Carpenter, a PCUSA elder who probably supported “freedom of conscience” for those that disobey Scripture and the Book of Order in the PCUSA feels he has the authority to tell other Americans that are Southern Baptist that they do not have “freedom of conscience” if they are to serve in our military. The very military that takes a vow to defend the constitution he claims has no rights to those rights and he has targeted the Southern Baptist chaplains first. A Baptist gave our nation the First Amendment because Baptists were jailed by Puritans in Massachusetts for having worship services. If Southern Baptist in the military are going to be prohibited from practicing their faith freely and their speech is now censored, then why should the PCUSA liberal gay pastors have rights to practicing their faith freely and their freedom of speech. Tom Carpenter obviously is a bigoted Southern Baptistphobe. I don’t see him calling for Muslims to be silent, only evangelicals and Southern Baptist.