Honor guardsmen fired for blessing

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-01-24 07:09am

Right! According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, an honor guardsmen at a New Jersey veterns' cemetary was fired because after the service he would say 'God bless this family and God bless the United States of America'.

However, he would only say it when the family had a clergyman or requested a chapel service. He is currently considering filing suit to get his job back.

So, what do you think?

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-01-24 07:22am

HemlockGrey wrote:Right! According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, an honor guardsmen at a New Jersey veterns' cemetary was fired because after the service he would say 'God bless this family and God bless the United States of America'.

However, he would only say it when the family had a clergyman or requested a chapel service. He is currently considering filing suit to get his job back.

So, what do you think?

Sounds ridiculous. What was he fired for? Just common courtesy to religious folks, based on this information.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-01-24 08:02am

This is an example of taking the seperation of church and state too far for me. When you try to establish a state religion, it's unconstitutional. When you say something like that, there's nothing wrong with it, "God bless" is a commonly used phrase in this country.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-01-24 11:03pm

Bumpity

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2003-01-25 08:28am

HemlockGrey wrote:Right! According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, an honor guardsmen at a New Jersey veterns' cemetary was fired because after the service he would say 'God bless this family and God bless the United States of America'.

However, he would only say it when the family had a clergyman or requested a chapel service. He is currently considering filing suit to get his job back.

So, what do you think?

if he only said it to religous people then he was just respecting their beliefs and did not deserve to be fired

CyberianKnight · Post by **CyberianKnight** » 2003-01-25 08:51am

He shouldn't have been fired, he was doing a good job observing the respective traditions of the agrieved families.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-25 12:12pm

seems like they were looking for an exuse to fire him.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-01-25 04:17pm

Its not like he said "Go to hell"
Stupid, just like Gap banning their employees from saying Merry Christmas.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-01-25 05:10pm

He's been given his job back now.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-01-25 05:37pm

Aother example of why extremism in any form is a double plus-ungood thing.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-01-25 05:43pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Right! According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, an honor guardsmen at a New Jersey veterns' cemetary was fired because after the service he would say 'God bless this family and God bless the United States of America'.

However, he would only say it when the family had a clergyman or requested a chapel service. He is currently considering filing suit to get his job back.

So, what do you think?

That's patently absurd. He was utilizing discretion, so I don't see how this would qualify as any kind of offense.

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