Daily Caller -- In a stunning development, some military priests are facing arrest if they celebrate mass or practice their faith on military bases during the federal government shutdown.
“With the government shutdown, many [government service] and contract priests who minister to Catholics on military bases worldwide are not permitted to work – not even to volunteer,” wrote John Schlageter, the general counsel for the Archdiocese for the Military Services USA, in an op-ed this week. “During the shutdown, it is illegal for them to minister on base and they risk being arrested if they attempt to do so.”
According to its website the Archdiocese for the Military Services “provides the Catholic Church’s full range of pastoral ministries and spiritual services to those in the United States Armed Forces.”
In his piece, Schlageter worries about this restriction as Sunday nears. “If the government shutdown continues through the weekend, there will be no Catholic priest to celebrate Mass this Sunday in the chapels at some U.S. military installations where non-active-duty priests serve as government contractors,” he wrote.
Because of the lack of active-duty Catholic chaplains, the military relies on hiring civilian priests to serve as government service and contract ministers. Those civilian priests are not allowed on the bases during a shutdown, Schlageter wrote.
Blog author's comments - The fact that Obama is doing things like this shows what a petty person we have in the White House. Obama really does dislike the military and Christians. He and his band of Democrats are making this government shutdown as difficult on the people as they can. If it lasts a few weeks we will no doubt see the Democrats stoop even lower. They are in this to win it all, everything Obama wants, which includes an increase of the debt ceiling with no give on his part. He continues to say he refuses to negotiate on anything.
If the priests and ministers are willing to donate their services what business is it of Obama? Refusing the troops the right to practice their religion has to be against their Constitutional rights. Obama has moved well beyond acting like a spoiled child, he is playing dictator. Obama's people who head the various federal agencies will do anything to please their boss. I seriously doubt that the liberal media will inform the low-information voters about this story and the many other stories like it that show what the Obama administration is doing. The liberal media will also portray the government shutdown as entirely the fault of the Republican Party.
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