Walter Reed Anti-Religion Medical Center

 In September of this year, a memo went out at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The memo was sent by their Chief of Staff, Colonel C.W. Callahan, and it pertained to visitors of the wounded heroes, many of whom fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it stated: "No religious items (i.e., Bibles, reading material, and/or artifacts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit."  

In other words, friends and families were not permitted their First Amendment rights, the same rights these warriors fought to preserve for our country. Representative Steve King (R-IA), who serves on the House subcommittee on the Constitution, was quite upset with this policy.  In his response to this he stated: "The idea that these soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that have fought to defend our Constitution--and that includes the First Amendment rights to religious liberty--would be denied that religious liberty when they are lying in a hospital bed recovering from wounds incurred while defending that liberty is the most bitter and offensive type of an irony that I can think of." 

The text below is a rescinding statement subsequently put out by the hospital, but Callahan still has a job, and all this took place while prisoners at Gitmo were provided with Korans, handed to them by guards who were required to wear gloves so as not to soil the 'holy book' with their dirty hands of infidels. One can only wonder what the Medical Center would have done if Muslim visitors wanted to bring their Korans.

Here is their statement found on the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Homepage:
      

We are in the process of rewriting our policy and would like to offer the following statement:

Bibles and other religious materials have always been and will remain available for patient use at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The visitation policy as written was incorrect and should have been more thoroughly reviewed before its release. It has been rescinded. We apologize for any confusion the policy may have caused.

Please know that at admission, all patients are asked for their religious preference and a chaplain associated with their preference visits them regularly to provide spiritual services. In addition, their families may also bring religious material and we will not refuse any religious group entrance.

WRNMMC provides multiple venues at WRMNMC for religious expression and worship. There is daily Catholic Mass as well as Protestant, Hindu, and Muslim services. Eucharist is also available at the bedside. There are weekly Torah studies, multiple weekly Christian bible studies, as well as weekly Qur'an study. Furthermore, chaplains coordinate spiritual needs for those whose faith groups are not represented by staff chaplains (such as Latter-Day Saints, Buddhist, and Christian Scientist).

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center remains committed to supporting the religious preferences of all our patients and we will continue to ensure their spiritual needs are met. 

Their version of religious artifact

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 Their public affairs officer Sandy Dean told the press, when the story first broke at the beginning of this month, that  a new policy "will be written to articulate our initial intention, which was to respect religious and cultural practices of our patients." This is nonsense and obvious when she further stated that the policy was "in no way meant to prohibit family members from providing religious items to their loved ones at all."   


Read the memo from Callahan again. Tell me, how is anything in that memo ambiguous? Lies, lies, and more lies. Just another example of the Obama administration's war on religion, his "metrosexual military" that sees diversity as more important than military preparedness, and his secular leftist views that exclude Christianity, but include Islam, the "religion of peace."

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