Grassley & King Meet With Walter Reed Officials to Discuss Bible Ban at Military Hospital
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, December 23, 2011, 4:55 AM
It’s an Obama world.
While we were preoccupied with Obama’s disastrous economic policies and foreign interventions, military bureaucrats under Barack Obama passed a new rule that barred loved ones from bringing Bibles to wounded soldiers.
The US Military says they are rescinding the order but only after Republican lawmaker Steve King denounced the policy on the House floor.
Earlier this week Rep. King and Senator Charles Grassley spoke with Walter Reed officials about the controversial measure.
The Steve King Congressional website reported:
Washington, DC- Congressman Steve King and Senator Chuck Grassley met with senior leadership of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center yesterday to discuss a recent memo released by the Medical Center prohibiting the use and distribution of Bibles and other religious materials during visits to wounded soldiers. After receiving the memo on December 2nd, King called Vice Admiral John Mateczun, Commander of the Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical, and Rear Admiral Alton Stocks, Commander of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, to Capitol Hill. King and Grassley were informed that the memo was worded improperly, that the Medical Center has rescinded the memo, and that a new memo will be drafted to affirmatively assert that religious items and artifacts are welcome in the hospital, if they are welcomed by the patient. King and Grassley released the following statements after the meeting:
“The meeting with Vice Admiral Mateczun, Rear Admiral Stocks, and Senator Grassley was productive because the Walter Reed staff has agreed to write a new rule that affirms a visitor’s ability to bring Bibles and other religious material when they visit,” King said. “I have asked to look over the new rule before it’s officially released and that they identify the individual who is responsible for writing this unconstitutional nonsense.”
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RKflorida commented:
This is really making me angry. Don’t these fools realize they are treading on dangerous ground?
bigL commented:
a whole lot of house-cleaning has got to go on…
SenatorMark4 commented:
Great! The Senator can demand that a military adjunct that wrote an unconstitutional memo be named. On the other hand, apparently NOBODY on Capital Hill can figure out if they should demand the same thing from Eric Holder regarding “Fast & Furious” murders done with guns they shipped over to drug gangs. Does it feel to anybody else like our own DOJ is arming a rebel army to reconquer the sourthwest?
Roy Rogers commented:
As if we were ever really know the name of the communist scum who wrote the first memo.
HeavyDee commented:
It’s not enough to get these atrocious policies reversed, we need to find out who is APPROVING these rules! Who is the final authority that says “Yes, that sounds like a good policy.” That person needs to be out on their A$$, immediately!!
StrangernFiction commented:
Anyone that refuses to serve under this cretin has nothing to explain to the likes of me.
Peter Warner commented:
Just one stupid question: Why are they spending time drafting a policy on this at all?
Best regards, Peter Warner.
nadadhimmi commented:
My God, why would King and Grassely humiliate themselves like that?? I predict repentent, groveling apologies made by them within 48 hrs of their being scolded by their master and controler, Obama. Why should we continue to elect into power these sniveling, cowardly, elitist swine GOP’ers? They are WORSE than the Democrats, at least the Dems are honest about their desire to socialize and destroy the Country. The lying ass GOP helps the Dems at every thurn but professes to resist them. Depend on BUTT BOY BOEHNER to lead the grovel fest.
burt commented:
The media would have you believe that Obama is a Christian. Where did they get that idea?
JCraig commented:
Where does anyone get the idea that Obama loves this country or that those who serve him respect it?
Federale commented:
Why haven’t those two sailors been courtmartialed for violating the civil rights of patients? Why haven’t they been fired? Are they gay? I am thinking so. It must be returning the favor to Obama.
Ausonius commented:
Barry O demonstrates faith in Christ in the same way that Machiavelli recommended in “The Prince,” LIP SERVICE ONLY
He is at odds at nearly every step (ok, I cannot say I have researched every single policy he has enacted) with orthodox Christianity.
His policies do favor hedonism and Islam, depending on the issue.
Never Christianity.
When he thinks no media will report it, he shows open hostility to genuine faith.