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Chaplain Services In The U.S. Military Should Be Provided In Light Of The Religious Traditions Of Our Country
The military should not provide facilities to the Church of Satan or any organization that promotes witchcraft.

The military should provide chaplain services to people who are within the religious traditions of the country.

The military has the authority to make choices regarding such matters and I would suggest that those choices be limited to providing chaplain services for individuals who are of biblical background. Our law system is a biblical law system, and to whatever degree Catholic, Protestants, Jews, members of the Church of Latter Day Saints, etc. all fall within that category. However, once you go beyond the biblical heritage of our country, I think you are treading on dangerous ground.

Liberty of conscience is something that should be honored and protected, and that's why the Constitution says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

None of us should be required to subsidize the propagation of the faith of another person, regardless of whether that faith is the abortion faith, homosexual faith, the environmental faith or even the Christian faith. The government should not subsidize the propagation of ideas and that is why we should not have a Legal Services Corporation, we should not have an AIDS education program, which really promotes homosexual conduct. The government should not be subsidizing sex education programs, which encourages promiscuity or The National Endowment for the Arts, which promotes perverse cultural preferences.

A primary purpose of the First Amendment was to protect religion from government. Therefore, the government should avoid interfering with the private expression of religious faith.

However, the military is a different story and different standards apply to the military. That is why it is legitimate for the military to provide chaplain services only for persons who adhere to a biblical faith.