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
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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 sure
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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
"Agitator" Chaplain Klingenschmitt's comments on the "new" House legislation...1) THE FIRST AMENDMENT ALREADY ALLOWSCHAPLAINS FREEDOM "TO PRAY ACCORDING TO THE DICTATES OF THEIR CONSCIENCE." (Is any phrase more distinctlyAmerican than this? Even Congressman Israel voted for this, he just
