Pentagon Eliminates Top Christian Speakers
Pentagon Eliminates Top Christian Speakers
Lawmaker Calls for Hearings into Pentagon's 'Politically Correct' Decisions to 'Disinvite' Conservative Christian Leaders
A conservative Republican congressman from Georgia is calling
for congressional hearings to investigate actions by the U.S.
military in recent weeks to cancel or rescind invitations that had
been made to two prominent conservative Christian leaders --
Franklin Graham and Tony Perkins -- to speak at military prayer
events.
"I think that we need to have some hearings on this because this
seems to be something that the military is spending some energy on
and we need to raise the visibility on it," Rep. Jack Kingston
(R-Ga.) told CNSNews.com.
Last week, the Army "disinvited" Franklin Graham, the well-known
son of the Rev. Billy Graham, to speak at the Pentagon on May 6 --
the National Day of Prayer -- after a military advocacy group
objected that Graham had characterized Islam after the 9/11 attacks
as "evil" and "wicked."
Kingston, a member of the defense subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee, pointed out that in February, the
chaplain's office at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland had
"disinvited" Family Research Council President Tony Perkins from
attending and praying at a national prayer event held on base
because Perkins' views differ from President Obama's desire to
repeal the military policy on homosexuality.
Kingston called both actions "political correctness."
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