ANS -- Hegseth STRIPS military chaplains of their rank

Here is a short article about Pete Hegseth and his idiocy.  He not only  cut down the recognized religions, but now he is lowering the rank of chaplains.  He's crazy.  

--Kim

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BREAKING: Hegseth STRIPS military chaplains of their rank while pushing his hardline religious agenda.

Pete Hegseth has decided that military chaplains aren't "warfighters" enough — so he's stripping the rank insignia off their uniforms. There's just one problem: military chaplains have spent over a century proving their valor in combat with their blood.

The U.S. Army this week gave its chaplains 90 days to remove their rank from combat uniforms, implementing Hegseth's directive that a chaplain "is first and foremost a chaplain and an officer second."

But as one viral social media post pointed out, the historical record OBLITERATES Hegseth's premise. Since World War I, U.S. military chaplains have earned 5 MEDALS OF HONOR, 26 Distinguished Service Crosses, 1 Navy Cross, 45 Silver Stars, and 719 Bronze Stars for valor.

These are men who ran INTO gunfire — unarmed — to drag wounded soldiers to safety, administer last rites under shelling, and comfort the dying on battlefields from the Argonne to Iraq. To suggest they need their rank stripped because they're not warriors enough is an insult to every chaplain who gave his life for the troops he served.

So, what's REALLY going on here? This is part of Hegseth's relentless campaign to inject hardline Christian nationalism into the U.S. military. He eliminated the Army's spiritual fitness guide, slashed recognized faith codes from over 200 down to just 31, and complained that past administrations infected the Chaplain Corps with "secular humanism."

And consider the company Hegseth keeps. He's the Trump administration's most prominent member of pastor Doug Wilson's church — which preaches that homosexuality should be a CRIME, that women should submit to their husbands, that the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote should be REPEALED, and that Southern Christians who owned slaves were "on firm scriptural ground." Hegseth even invited Wilson to deliver a sermon at his monthly Pentagon prayer service.

THIS is the man deciding what "big-T truth" America's warfighters need.

Chaplains have bled for this country for 250 years. They don't need Pete Hegseth questioning their courage.