Christian-owned company told they must
remove Bible verses from Army products,
including dog tags
BizPac Review,
by
Ashley Hill
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/19/2021 2:00:40 AM
The Department of Defense is now facing a religious freedom lawsuit after they managed to create a problem for a Christian-owned company where one did not exist for over 23 years.Shields of Strength has been told they can no longer offer their military branded dog tags with bible verses – something they have been doing without issue since 1997. The biblical inspired products are so popular that President George W. Bush even requested one in 2003 to honor the first soldier from Operation Iraqi Freedom who was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, CPT Russell Rippetoe, according to their counsel’s website.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/19/2021 3:43:18 AM (No. 1011627)
DoD has fnally morphed into an anti-cristian gooberfmint organization. Way to go Joey and your communist DNC.
84 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
mifla 12/19/2021 4:33:32 AM (No. 1011652)
The war on Christians continues.
112 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/19/2021 5:47:25 AM (No. 1011679)
Zero religious freedom in Commie-Land. That bit about the Bible verses is just one of a multitude of chipping away in preparation to fully establish Marxist rule over all. The government is no friend to Christian denominations, only to Islam and satanism.
86 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 12/19/2021 5:49:00 AM (No. 1011681)
I'd bet my last dollar that if this were an Islamic company stamping "Allahu Akbar" on their mdse, the DoD wouldn't bat an eye. They wouldn't dare.
91 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/19/2021 5:58:11 AM (No. 1011684)
#3 you repeated yourself in the last sentence by calling out two of Mohammadenism nicknames.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MSUDoc 12/19/2021 7:10:21 AM (No. 1011708)
The more anti-Christian bigots marginalize the Church, the more Hellish the country becomes. Escalating violence, debauchery, predatory behavior towards children, etc.
It’s almost like it could have been predicted…
71 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ruhn 12/19/2021 8:03:49 AM (No. 1011730)
Nice to see DoD’s priorities are in order, again. Let’s recap this past year:
- SECDEF Lloyd Austin orders a mandatory standown over the 6 Jan protest. Ostensibly to talk about “extremism”, it was a veiled threat to service members to not question the narrative. The indoctrination sessions unnecessarily opened old racial scars and created more problems than it intended to solve.
- Afghanistan. Enough blame to spread around, especially SECSTATE Blinken and POTUS-ish Joe, but Austin and CJCS GEN Milley contributed to the fiasco. They should have known better but they said little back to Biden on the impending train wreck of the evacuation. Both should have resigned (or got fired) over Afghanistan alone. But both Austin and Milley are still there. No accountability.
- COVID response. Mandating a questionable inoculation further divided the ranks and forced many service members out unnecessarily. Mandated in the name of force readiness, it’s ironic that DoD still fails to notice the connection with getting the mandatory jab AND the drop in force readiness.
43 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/19/2021 8:22:10 AM (No. 1011741)
Christ told us that we would be persecuted and 2,000 years later it’s still going on. I just never thought it would happen here.
Can anyone still doubt that the left is nothing less than evil?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Pook60 12/19/2021 8:42:36 AM (No. 1011769)
I’m not sure what is more to blame, evil or lawyers.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/19/2021 8:44:47 AM (No. 1011778)
Are these anti Christan bigots planning on taking off from their government jobs for Christmas or Easter? And "Happy Holidays" really means, "Happy Holy Days!" I looked at my old dog tags, issued in 1961, and the only thing remotely religious was the line starting my preferred religion.
26 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Avikingman 12/19/2021 8:52:35 AM (No. 1011788)
Now is the time for an executive order. Don't expect one though from Bidet.
25 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Miceal 12/19/2021 9:32:44 AM (No. 1011826)
This particular "swamp" needs to be deep cleaned and disinfected.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 12/19/2021 10:37:35 AM (No. 1011893)
The anti Christ movement is working around the clock to kill Jesus again. Satan is residing in the Oval Office.
29 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/19/2021 11:09:47 AM (No. 1011954)
This is another path to hell paved with good intentions. The Congress gave the military a level of trademark protection to ensure their seals and logos were not misused or abused as "endorsements" for...whatever you can think of. And now the lawyers have thought and discovered these dog tags. Letter of the law says they are in violation. A "reasonable person" might see these dogtags and think the US government was issuing them...endorsing Judeo-Christian belief.
This is the problem with fixing a "problem" with a law. Eventually, all sides find themselves weaponizing and even falling into the traps they set for the "bad guys". And then scream "Injustice!".
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
law428 12/19/2021 11:21:31 AM (No. 1011966)
This should come as no surprise. These governments and world systems were given to the devil to have (temporal) dominion over them and so he does as shown in Mathew 4:5. After Jesus had fasted forty days and forty nights the devil offered them to Him in exchange for His worship...
"... Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me."
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MAGA Might 12/19/2021 12:36:49 PM (No. 1012055)
Where does this stop? When Trump said we needed to drain the swamp, I don't think anyone realized how deep it ran at the Pentagon. In 2024 when the GOP has the WH and Congress, the house cleaning must start with the DOD.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
FLCracker 12/19/2021 12:40:17 PM (No. 1012061)
I bet this turns out to be something drawn up by trademark lawyers, rather than any thought-out policy.
All official identification tags are prepared by and issued by by the members' services. These tags are embossed into monel metal blanks, which can be made by any Addresso-graph machine. There is nothing on them that is a registered trademark of the U.S. government (except perhaps, the specific order and style of the info embossed.)
And as we all know, they are essentially body tags. These items do not belong to the individual; they belong to the government.
Whatever this company is selling isn't really a military identification tag, it just looks like one. Anybody can buy these or something similar, and have whatever they want put on them. HOWEVER, will service members' unit allow you to wear the thing in uniform or in lieu of the issued "dog tags", and this has NOTHING to do with freedom of religion or trademark law.
It has to do with properly identifying the incoherent, unconscious or dead body wearing it.
One is an official document that medics, admin personnel and quartermasters can accept as true and accurate. The other is just jewelry.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/19/2021 12:40:52 PM (No. 1012063)
To the idiot leftist pinheads in the Pentagon civilian corps, t's Freedom OF Religion, not freedom FROM religion!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Penney 12/19/2021 3:42:40 PM (No. 1012234)
Yet another, 'first,' for the socialist/dem pols?! ...Trying to remove God's Word will not work out well for America.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Blackbird 12/19/2021 5:49:05 PM (No. 1012357)
And just in time for Christmas. We have a large bunch of incompetent PC Political generals who need to be purged before it’s too late.
3 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
janjan 12/19/2021 7:23:56 PM (No. 1012435)
Sorry not sorry to have the unpopular opinion here but not all military members are Christians. There are many other religions represented as well as non-religious people. Dog tags are meant to identify dead or injured military members. We need to show respect for all of them. And yes, I am a Christian.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 12/19/2021 9:19:39 PM (No. 1012519)
“Merry Marxmas”
The only way to stop them is
to remove them..willingly or not.....
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