GetReligion: Chaplains and Prayer

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GetReligion: December 22, 2005

I’m still tracking down where the issue is here. I can’t believe that Chap. Klingenschmitt is being told how to conduct services. Although Protestant chaplains have a broader demographic — they minister to all Protestant servicemen in theory — they’re still Christians, as are the services they conduct. I imagine this issue is about how to pray in public, which I’m still not sure where I would fall on such a question. It doesn’t offend me so much to have to listen to a Buddhist or a Muslim pray to some god other than the Holy Trinity, but I know other servicemen who have more delicate sensibilities on this matter. They feel like perhaps they’re being forced to pray along with the person, so I can’t say I blame the Chaplain’s Corps for having policies about religious specificity in place.

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