Bibles banned from Walter Reed Army Medical Center.avi

[flapinux]

It's about time! I know I would hate being proselytized to.

[rufust1975]

What the memo actually prohibits is "partners in care" i.e. NOT relatives. What this means is that volunteers or people on "official visits" can't prostelytise injured soldiers aren't allowed bibles while they're trying to exploit injured or ill soldiers to spread whatever their version of Christianity is.

The patients, and their relatives, are of course still permitted bibles.

[andyjunction]

Bibles are not banned from Walter Reed. Anyone who says they are is either an idiot or a liar. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". A memo cannot override the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Duh.

[IndyCub86]

Im pretty sure riends and family are still allowed to bring whatever they want, and bibles and other religious services can definately still be requested through chaplains. All this does is prevent groups to go in and proselytize to wounded soldiers without their request, just like some earlier new guidelines don't allow outside groups to proselytize at their funerals against the wishes of he family or diseased ...

[merxen]

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat :

[NYredwhiteandblue]

nice..lol land of the free just keeps getting freer .......