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shenmue

(38,506 posts)
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 09:13 PM Dec 2014

Gordon Klingenschmitt's claim of persecution based on 'incident' that never happened

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitts-entire-activist-career-based-myth

Right-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 OP
Grifters gotta grift. FSogol Dec 2014 #1
The biggest con in history is malaise Dec 2014 #7
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2014 #2
Rec tammywammy Dec 2014 #3
I will persecute him based on the fact that he's a raging,m hatemongering douchebag. Initech Dec 2014 #4
RW Preach is Liar.. Shocking@@@! Cha Dec 2014 #5
When will these anti-Christian "Christians" learn the Ten Commandments are not a bucket list? baldguy Dec 2014 #6

Response to shenmue (Original post)

Initech

(100,067 posts)
4. I will persecute him based on the fact that he's a raging,m hatemongering douchebag.
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 11:19 PM
Dec 2014

Who claims to be Christian.

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