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Pope George Ringo II

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7. I don't particularly have a problem with military chaplains.
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 02:20 PM
Nov 2018

If there had never been any and the question was starting their inclusion, I'd probably be against that. But there's such a long history of their function at this point that it's really hard to make a powerful argument for terminating the existing service.

And I'm not going to pick a fight with somebody who wants the military to drop them altogether and avoid the military getting involved in that mess. It's not the road I'd choose at this point and I might actually argue it's a mistake, but it's an honest position. And it does have some objections to raise about the military picking which religions do and don't get chaplains.

However, there is a group which wants chaplains only from the "acceptable" sources. I find that somewhat less defensible than either extreme. Every religion has just as much right to their religious services as the holy rollers do to theirs.

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