Navy Chaplain Begins Hunger Strike Over Prayer Policy

December 21, 2005

Source: Beliefnet

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/181/story_18161_1.html

On December 21, 2005 Beliefnet reported, "A U.S. Navy chaplain has begun a hunger strike in Washington to protest a military policy that bans mentioning Jesus in Christian prayer. Navy Lt. Gordon Klingenschmitt believes he may lose his job next month and be evicted from military housing, because during the summer of 2004 aboard the USS Anzio, he preached an evangelistic sermon at the funeral of a Catholic sailor in a base chapel. The lieutenant said he was reprimanded by two senior chaplains and, in March, sent ashore to Norfolk. Official military policy allows any sort of prayer, but Klingenschmitt told The Washington Times that in reality, evangelical Protestant prayers are censored."