U.S. Navy Bans Christian Speech
The U.S. Navy has ordered a chat group gathered on a special website the military set up for families of service members to drop the word “Christian” from its title.
It also has changed the website’s rules to ban all “religious discussions” because such speech “contradicts our purpose by creating unnecessary divisions among site members.”
The issue was exposed by officials with Liberty Counsel, a public interest law firm that has written to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus demanding that the censorship on the NavyforMoms.com website be reversed.
“The prohibition of religious groups and religious speech on Navy for Moms by the United States Navy is unconstitutional,” said the letter dispatched also to the private company engaged by the Navy to operate the site.
“The government simply may not create a forum and then proclaim religious views are not welcome as that is blatant viewpoint discrimination, absolutely prohibited by the First Amendment. Even if the restrictions were evaluated as content restrictions, the United Sates Navy could not withstand the strict scrutiny required by the Supreme Court for analyzing the restrictions,” the letter, signed by attorney David Corry on behalf of Liberty Counsel, said.
“The use of the name ‘Christian’ cannot violate the Establishment Clause since it is purely private, occurs in a designated public forum, and has been publicly announced and open to all on equal terms,” he wrote.
The issue developed at the Navy for Moms site, which explains it is “for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.”
The Navy has long been anti-Christ, even punishing Chaplains for using Jesus name. Sadly, the majority of soldiers and sailors look to Christ for comfort and hope, but the Navy simply hates Jesus.
They would never dare censor the mention of Allah or Mohammed!
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