Are those Marines in the photo above running to a fight or running away from a fight? Well, Fellow Marines, it appears the current sick societal norms have now finally affected our Corps. Sadly they are running away from a fight — UNBELIEVABLE! I am sickened by the below article, which by the way was sent to me by my bride.
The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) has a legendary history of bravery and esprit de corps when it comes to defending America’s freedom. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, the Corps hasn’t shrunk back from meeting any foe of the United States. So it may surprise some to learn that recently the Marines surrendered to a single activist who complained that an instructor at an upcoming seminar on strategy and tactics was a Christian.
The USMC scheduled an annual training for military lawyers earlier this month, at which the Battle of Gettysburg would be discussed. The instructor for one portion of that training was supposed to be Jay Lorenzen, an Air Force veteran who taught for 10 years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Lorenzen’s biography, provided to the military lawyers in advance of the training, included references to Christianity, including his affiliation with Campus Crusade for Christ, now known as Cru, and a couple of religious-themed courses he teaches in his spare time. Several of those lawyers complained to Mikey Weinstein, who heads up a secular, anti-Christian group called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, that Lorenzen was going to teach about religion.
That allegation was false. It didn’t matter.
Weinstein, himself an Air Force veteran, is adamantly opposed to any form of Christian expression within the military, and immediately contacted the USMC to voice his displeasure at Lorenzen’s scheduled appearance at the training, calling Lorenzen a “fundamentalist Christian extremist parachurch official.” Within 64 minutes, according to Weinstein, the USMC informed him that the event had been canceled. It was replaced with an instruction regarding systemic racism within the military.
First Liberty Institute, a public interest law firm specializing in religious liberty, represents and has represented military personnel, including chaplains, who have seen their religious freedom rights unfairly and unconstitutionally curtailed by the various military branches. The legal firm is calling a foul.
Jeremy Dys is the Special Counsel for Litigation and Communications for First Liberty. In an op-ed this week, he explained why the USMC is making a big mistake in this case.
“Let us be very clear: the Marine Corps bravely cancelled a speaker chosen to lead a discussion on the battlefield tactics and leadership lessons of Gettysburg based upon his expertise as a retired military officer and academy professor because that retired officer, in his speaker’s bio, confessed to be religious and associated with a religious organization,” Dys said.
“Such open discrimination against people of faith is unbecoming of our beloved Marine Corps. From Article VI of the U.S. Constitution to cases like Trinity Lutheran to numerous Department of Defense (DOD) policies, the law is clear: the government cannot require a religious test for office, nor insist that religious people be excluded from benefits—like teaching to a class of Marine Corps reservists—because they are religious.”
In a statement furnished to Fox News, the USMC confirmed only that the event had been cancelled when scheduled attendees “raised concerns” about Lorenzen.
When the Marines go into full retreat mode over the issue of religious freedom, it’s time for an explanation and some new direction from the Department of Defense. The treatment of this instructor should not be allowed to stand.
Bullshit, it’s time for some serious discourse by we Marines with some of the so-called leaders of our active Corps. I would expect the retired Generals to be rising up in protest, but then maybe not. There are a few I know personally who will certainly come up on line. They were going to discuss the Battle of Gettysburg, not the resurrection of Jesus. I am seriously sickened by this action. Commandant, where are you taking my Corps?
Originally posted 2020-08-08 11:11:51.
I wear my cover with pride GOD* COUNTRY* CORPS* SEMPER FI of course I am now an old salt
And what is your point Phillip?
Today’s Corps is hashtag woke, and it has lost it’s warrior culture… and it’s traditions are being re-made for the the sake of political ideaology that is more secular and protected class centric..proof you want that’s too easy….#woke crowd says “believe the science” that is until its against them…the integrated infantry battalion test results proved with no room for any doubt that the female integrated units were slower, less accurate in kinetic engagements and suffered more injuries that took them off the battlefield….Even the MSM covered this and its no secret….but then why right now is the corps still focused on getting more female leaders into infantry units????? To do that they changed the first week of infantry officers course so candidates with less testosterone could recover between events… So they are set on reinforcing failure is the only thing my logical brain can muster…Nothing lasts forever and it was nice while it lasted… the few warriors out there are headed out the doors at alarming rates and being replaced by what was reffered to in Orwells 1984 as betas. Social justice is what the corps is about it seems today….fighting battles and wining wars “with the right type of people”.
Whoever are those marine (small “M”) officers who caved to a prejudiced and un-Constitutional complaint, they should be cashiered. At the very least, they should be publicly identified so that real Marines can direct their contempt.
“The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.” In 1946, long before my time, General Vandegrift proclaimed this to congress and it has been adopted as a theme taught to our Marines, especially our officer corps, ever since. In over 20 years of service, I have witnessed it lived out by some very good leaders, some very good men. I have never experienced the application of its truth at the institutional level. I wish it were true – but I find it to be a paper statement. To the contrary, the bended knee and compromise of values (yes, even Corps values) are very much the tradition of the modern day Marine Corps. The Marine Corps is no longer looking for a few good men. The prostitution of principles for an FY budget and social relevance are driving factors in policy. If this speaker had an Islamic faith, if he were a darling of the ACLU, or if he were a “she” . . . (because that is how ridiculous – how non-serious our leaders have shaped us), it is highly unlikely the Corps would have cancelled. He was cancelled because Christianity, and by extension, truth claims and Western values are militated against by liberal activists and the Marine Corps, regrettably, chooses to stand for nothing of moral substance outside of its commercials and bumper stickers.
What did we expect from a group of lawyers who just happen to be wearing the uniform of a Marine?
Agreed!!!! But I would have expected our Corps to to run towards the sound of a fight instead of running from it. Sad day for the USMC
We have too many lawyers in Marine uniforms instead of Marines that happen to be lawyers….who ought to do a tour as non-lawyers in FMF units before they can become lawyers in the Corps.
Amen to that, but in today’s Corps, that will NEVER happen.