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Christian Air Force Officer Vows to Violate Military Regulations if DADT is Repealed
Gen. James Amos speaking at 2009 National Day of Prayer Task Force event on Capitol Hill
The hell with regulations, we hate gays and lesbians and so does god
By Chris Rodda in Huffington Post
Saying that his “commitment to [his] God supersedes [his] commitment to the DOD,” Air Force Lt. Col. Stacy L. Maxey has publicly vowed to violate military regulations and his oath to the U.S. Constitution if DADT is repealed. In a letter published by Stars and Stripes, Lt. Col. Maxey claims that it would be hypocritical that he would “be free to express myself if I’m a homosexual, but not if I’m a Christian.”
Here’s Lt. Col. Maxey’s letter:
Won’t choose to ‘deal with it’
STARS AND STRIPES
Letters to the Editor, December 15, 2010So let me see if I understand this: The Defense Department is proposing to let people who choose to live a homosexual lifestyle serve “openly” in the armed forces (per the Dec. 2 article “DADT study group: Full integration is best”), but won’t allow Christians such as myself the freedom to “openly” share the good news of Christ with our co-workers — as the faith we’ve chosen requires?
DOD officials plan to tell servicemembers who have a problem with those living a homosexual lifestyle to “learn to deal with it,” but they are prepared to counsel and/or slap Christians with paperwork if someone feels “offended” by our witness? Wearing sexual lifestyle choices on your sleeve is OK, but not your faith?
Military chaplains who teach that homosexuality is antithetical to and incompatible with Christianity (which it is) can either muzzle their objections or “leave,” but gays will be permitted to parade their lifestyle choices in front of all?
Bottom line: So I’m free to express myself if I’m a homosexual, but not if I’m a Christian? What disgraceful hypocrisy.
Here’s the truth: I will continue to witness to who I want, when I want and where I want. My commitment to my God supersedes my commitment to the DOD and, if officials are upset about that, then I guess they can “learn to deal with it.”
Department of Defense? More like the Department of Double Standards.
Lt. Col. Stacy L. Maxey
Afghanistan
(Looks like Lt. Col. Maxey’s intent to violate his military oath isn’t being met with much support from the readers of Stars and Stripes. You can read the comments here.)
Cases of military officers blatantly violating military regulations for their God are, of course, nothing new to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). We hear about them on a daily basis.
Upon being emailed Lt. Col. Maxey’s Stars and Stripesletter this morning, MRFF founder and president Mikey Weinstein issued the following statement: “Lt. Col. Stacy L. Maxey is the quintessentially perfect example of a poisonous Poster Child of the vast legion of fundamentalist Christian proselytizing-oppressors operating with unfettered access in today’s U.S. armed forces. He and his illegitimate ilk of pernicious spiritual predators must be stopped now and very publicly! Thus, MRFF demands that the United States Air Force immediately and forthwith subject Lt. Col. Maxey to the most severe punishment possible for his disgustingly brazen and incontrovertibly insubordinate screed which is clearly violative of the Uniform Code of Military Justice as well as his sworn oath to the United States Constitution.”
With hundreds of gay and lesbian service members among its over 20,000 clients, MRFF has been receiving a steady stream of emails and phone calls lately regarding DADT, the most recent deluge coming in yesterday in the wake of the outrageous statement made by repeal opponent Gen. James Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps, who asserted that openly gay Marines would somehow cause a “distraction” that could cost the lives of their fellow Marines.
While not publicly citing his religious beliefs as a factor in his opposition of DADT repeal, Gen. Amos, a born again Christian, is no stranger to violating military regulations to promote his religion. In 2009, Amos appeared in uniform at Shirley Dobson’s National Day of Prayer Task Force event on Capitol Hill, in clear violation of a number of Department of Defense regulations, including the strict prohibition on the endorsement of a non-federal entity while in uniform. (For a detailed list of all the military regulations violated by appearing in uniform at such an event, see my post about this year’s National Day of Prayer violations).
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Way to go Stacy, I don’t understand how Leon and his gay crowd can hate Christians so much and would kiss every ass in Washington D.C. to keep from offended a Muslim. I don’t understand how DOD can handcuff Christians and cuddle Muslims, the Christians, members of American military units and the Muslims, members of terror cells.
David A. White ,
WE KNOW WHO THE TERRORISTS ARE AND THE ONE COUNTRY THAT DOES THE MOST TO FOMENT TERRORISM,
BALFOUR-TALMUD-SATANIC-ISRAEL
BY THE WAY THE QURAN IS QUITE KIND & COMPLIMENTARY TO JESUS & MARY,
UNLIKE THE EVIL,NASTY,DISGUSTING TALMUD
JUDEO-GROUPIE CADETS FOR JOHN HAGEE & BABYLONIAN MADNESS
We gay sympathizers just want to spend eternity in hell after we die.
Equality, justice, well maybe these play some part in our motivation, but mostly it’s the going to hell thing.
We love Satan so much: Good man–friend of the gay, Jew, Muslim and heathen.
Happy Holidays!
Michael…..
It is obvious that you don’t take these matters seriously, and that is an absolute shame. Your comment about loving Satan is not funny or entertaining in the least. Satan is not a man, and he is a friend to no-one.
I am sure that you are an intelligent person, but not on this subject.
God does not hate sinners. He hates sin. He makes that perfectly clear. There are many people who choose to twist God’s words to further their own agenda. God says that homosexual behavior is an abomination. Not me….. God.
So, getting angry at me ( or anyone else) for reading and believing what God says in the Bible does not make sense to me.
God bless you.
Lt. Col. Maxey,
Faith is a lifestyle choice.
If you want to share the good news with others, keep ‘thou shalt not kill’ in the closet, or choose another career.
Be careful what you preach, you may have to practice it, too.
It is talking about murder (criminal homicide). Do no murder, is the commandment! There is a big difference between “kill” and “murder.”
Exodus 15:3 The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name. (DRB)
Exodus 15:3 Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name. (WEB)
Jeremiah 51:20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms. (KJV)
There are Biblical wars that are justifiably fought, where we kill the enemy! The Romans under General Titus killed more than a million of them in 70 AD.
SOrry SAS, but those passages are NOT general principles of justified righteous practice for all believers for all time. They were, in the first instance, a declaration of an aspect of God himself (his right to visit war upon those he wishes to punish, not man’s) and in the second instance a declaration by God to SPECIFIC individuals in SPECIFIC circumstances for his purpose.
Nothing the US military has done has been by divine decree or justification. Wars for profit and hegemonic power are crimes against God and man and anyone claiming to be a Christian who seeks to justify what IS murder, intentional violence and degradation upon our earthly neighbors (regardless or color, creed or ethnicity) is NO Christian. Jesus said our battle is NOT against “flesh and blood” but against principalities and powers in high places.
I find it a disgrace and an affront to Christ himself, to claim to want to “spread the Gospel (Good News of Christ’s love and redemptive sacrifice) and then mix it with visible adherence to an institution of war and lies and destruction like our military.
For this lunatic officer to claim “We hate gays and so does God” shows that the spirit of God is not in him. Just another apostate “evangelical” advancing the doctrines of demons as it is written would be the case.
God hates sin, NOT the sinner. Remember that.
Malachi 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. (KJV)
Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. (KJV)
I never said Iraq and Afghanistan were Biblical wars. One of these “SPECIFIC” wars came when God used the Romans (who were Israelites and thus His battle-axe) to slaughter Edom in 70 AD, like He promised. God is the same today as He was yesterday, and He never changes! If the Bible says He is a man of war, I believe it! If the Bible says He has a people that He uses to destroy kingdoms and smash nations to pieces (which history proves true), I believe it! And it took more than just a few specific individuals to do the smashing, esp. in ancient times. Not all wars are illegitimate.
“God hates sin, NOT the sinner. Remember that.”
2 Peter 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly. (KJV)
I will not even bother to quote what the Bible has to say about homosexuality, because not only do you not believe it, you might then consider God to be a “lunatic.”
God is just fine, your utter misuse of scripture to promote a warmongering hate-filled mindset is what is lunatic, and anything but in keeping with the teachings of Christ.
I suggest you focus on what Christ demanded of his followers in the Gospels you seem to avoid in your cherry-picking.
SO MANY JUDEOS PRETENDING TO BE CHRISTIANS,
.INTERESTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
13. “Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night.” – Midrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L
14. “As soon as the King Messiah will declare himself, He will destroy Rome and make a wilderness of it. Thorns and weeds will grow in the Pope’s palace. Then He will start a merciless war on non-Jews and will overpower them. He will slay them in masses, kill their kings and lay waste the whole Roman land. He will say to the Jews: ‘I am the King Messiah for whom you have been waiting. Take the silver and gold from the goyim.’ ” -Josiah 60, 6. Rabbi Abarbanel to Daniel 7, 13
15. “A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated.” -9boda Sarah 37
16. “A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl.” -&ad. Shas. 2:2
17. “A Jew may do to a non-Jewess what he can do. He may treat her as he treats a piece of meat.” -Hadarine, 20, B; Schulchan 9ruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348
18. “A Jew may misuse the non-Jewess in her state of unbelief.” – Maimonides, Jak. Chasaka 2:2
19. “IF a goy kills a goy or a Jew he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy he is NOT responsible.” -Tosefta. 9boda Za,-a 8, 5
God is just fine, your utter misuse of scripture to promote a warmongering hate-filled mindset is what is lunatic, and anything but in keeping with the teachings of Christ.
I suggest you focus on what Christ demanded of his followers in the Gospels you seem to avoid in your cherry-picking.
http://mynameisjoecortina.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/open-letter-to-racist-hatewar-monger-devvy-kidd/
ANY & ALL WARS NOW IN THIS CENTURY OR THE LAST OR THE ONE BEFORE THAT ONE ARE NOT “”Biblical”", so your point is what??
There is enough Scripture to support war and a Christian military without “Zionists” creating the wars for us to fight. There will be future wars, even against the (false) Zionists. The Bible does not teach pacifism or love and tolerance for those who commit abominations in the sight of God. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for doing evil and I do not want my state or nation to be destroyed, so I warn against it.
To assume that all war is un-Biblical is going against what the Bible says. Please use wisdom before calling someone a “Judeo,” because I am far from it.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8:
1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
There is a time to hate, a time to kill, a time for war, and a time for everything else mentioned in these verses.
It is a belief not a lifestyle choice. If you ever took the time to have a religious belief you’d understand this, but you haven’t, so you don’t. Now, homosexuality qualifies and being forced to accept it when it goes against your belief is religious suppression. Welcome to the 1st century, this is Rome persecuting Christians all over again.
When the scales are tipped against morality, society immorality becomes the new normal.
Lt. Col Maxey, may God stay with you, don’t ever change. This is just another attempt by the DOD to de-Christianize the US military. They not only want your life, they want your dignity also. Continue your witness to Jesus Christ at all costs.
A DECADE OF WARS ON THE BASIS OF FALSE PRETENSES,
SIX DECADES PLUS OF SUPPORTING BALFOUR-TALMUD-SATANIC-ISRAEL.
On just general observations , what is there to “” de-Christianize”"??
So many Judeos or Judeo-Zionists, or kkristianz zionistz,
SCOFIELDISM IS A CULT AND SO IS
JUDEO-TALMUD-KKRISTIANZ
MUSLIMS BELIEVE IN THE SAME G-D AS TRUE CHRISTIANS DO,
UNLIKE THE KRISTIANZZ ZIONISTZ,who worship Israel, A Country that has total & complete disdain & hate for you AND ALL OF HUMANITY,
NOT VERY CHRIST-LIKE,
……….these fake “” Christians”" who are really just
Gentile-Talmudists,
http://mynameisjoecortina.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/american-bapt-duh-zionists-%e2%80%93-the-other-%e2%80%9csons-of-the-devil%e2%80%9d/
real smart, let TALMUD RABBIS teach you what CHRISTIANITY is,
they are laughing at you when they aren’t cursing & despising you!!
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
Lt. Col Maxey, may God stay with you, don’t ever change. This is just another attempt by the DOD to de-Christianize the US military. They not only want your life, they want your dignity also. Continue your witness to Jesus Christ at all costs. The veterans that I know are all behind you.
Continue your witness to JOHN HAGEE & SCOFIELD at all costs and in the face of known fraud & madness,
CADETS FOR END TIME HYPE MADNESS,
SCOFIELD IS NOT ONE OF THE GOSPELS!!!!!!!!!
ONE FACT IS THE RANK & FILE HAVE SAID THEY DON’T WANT DADT REPEALED.
THE RANK & FILE HAVE SAID THEY DON’T WANT DADT REPEALED.
RANK & FILE DON’T WANT DADT REPEALED
http://ussliberty.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/israel-public-enemy-number-one/
Gays in the military.
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Lawyers and politician and their clients or constituents are keenly aware that the best way to have major changes in a society is to place any individual or group in the special category of “A victim” if you’re going to change any time-honored tradition in The United States of America!!!
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The gay agenda has a progression of thoughts: First there is the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” that introduces the gay verbiage that implies undeserved “Shame” experienced by the gays; then the gays progress to the “Do ask, and do tell”, which projects a more accepting view of the gay lifestyle; then they promote their interpersonal romantic gay alternative relationships as just as natural, normal, productive and healthy as the heterosexual lifestyle; and finally the gay community will demand that a law be passed making homosexual marriages legal.
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One person compared the homosexual lifestyle as like being left-handed in a society of where 92% of the population is right-handed. However, two individuals, one writing with their left hand and the other person using their right hand both accomplish the same task of equally good penmanship. On the other hand, gays and lesbians can’t produce or have a family. There are gays and lesbians Christian who would do a better job of raising children over some traditional male / female couples who are dysfunctional, spiritually or emotionally.
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But males bonding with females will always be a more preferred and acceptable lifestyle for the majority because they produce children and grandchildren etc (a family unit)!
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The naked truth is that all humans have relational problems, regardless of their sexual orientation; simply because we are all self-centered, ego-centric and put our self interest above all others. The point I am trying to make is that so many straight pious individuals (especially Christians) will condemn or make-fun-of homosexuals and their lifestyle; and completely ignore the fact that straight people also struggle with life, and straight people also offend God and others in what they think, do and say.
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When homosexuals can’t get total or unconditional acceptance or approval of their gay and lesbian lifestyle or marriage from their heterosexual family members, friends, co-workers, school mates or teachers, religious leaders, or neighbors; then this lawsuit against the U.S. Military opens a door to promote and encourage all Americans to accept the homosexual lifestyle as legal and have equal status of male to female lifestyle and marriage.
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Sexual orientation is a non-work related issue: and the military should never give deference to race, religion or sexual orientation!
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My hope and prayer is that The Government of the U.S.A. will continue to ONLY require that a person’s mental and physical abilities be up for consideration in order to determine whether a person is qualified to join any branch of the U.S military!!! This is a desperate attempt to accomplish homosexual’s future goal of sanctioned gay and lesbian marriages in all 50 states of the U.S.
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Sincerely,
ArthurTrafford.com