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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGordon Klingenschmitt's claim of persecution based on 'incident' that never happened
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitts-entire-activist-career-based-mythRight-wing extremist preacher Gordon Klingenschmitt likes to claim that the military cut him as a chaplain because he said prayers in the name of Jesus. Oops: it seems that alleged incident never happened.
From the article:
Klingenschmitt, who goes by Dr. Chaps, has based his political activism on his own personal story of persecution, claiming that the military censored and fired him because he said the name of Jesus in his prayers as a chaplain. He filed a lawsuit to protect his First Amendment rights and has used his story to win persecution points from the Religious Right and raise lots of money for his group, the Pray In Jesus Name Project.
But as Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State reports, Klingenschmitt lost his lawsuit last week because the incident never happened.
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Gordon Klingenschmitt's claim of persecution based on 'incident' that never happened (Original Post)
shenmue
Dec 2014
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FSogol
(45,481 posts)1. Grifters gotta grift.
malaise
(268,955 posts)7. The biggest con in history is
Let us PREY!
Response to shenmue (Original post)
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tammywammy
(26,582 posts)3. Rec
Initech
(100,067 posts)4. I will persecute him based on the fact that he's a raging,m hatemongering douchebag.
Who claims to be Christian.
Cha
(297,169 posts)5. RW Preach is Liar.. Shocking@@@!
baldguy
(36,649 posts)6. When will these anti-Christian "Christians" learn the Ten Commandments are not a bucket list?