Gen. Boykin Blocked at West Point

· Thursday, February 2, 2012

Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Ken Klukowski

A three-star Army general and war hero cannot speak at West Point because he's an outspoken Christian. So the Obama administration's hostility toward religion -- and especially Christians -- continues even to the detriment of our men and women in uniform.

Lieutenant General William G. ("Jerry") Boykin is like an action-movie hero. When the super-elite Delta Force was formed in late 1970s -- our top counter-insurgent military unit that the Pentagon still does not officially discuss -- this ranger in the 101st Airborne unit was tapped to be part of it.

In 1983 he was in Grenada, where Boykin survived being hit by a round from a .50-caliber gun. (Many anti-aircraft guns are ".50-cal," and a single round can split a human body in two.) In 1992 and 93, he was part of the Delta Force team hunting (and unofficially killing) drug lord Pablo Escobar. Then in 1993, Boykin was the commanding officer of the mission in the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia forever memorialized in the movie "Black Hawk Down."

After these heroics, General Boykin he served as the commanding general of U.S. Army Special Forces Command, then commanding general of U.S. Army Special Warfare Center. He also served at the CIA and as Deputy Undersecretary of Intelligence at the Department of Defense.

Jerry Boykin has done it all. He's been in battle as part of America's most elite fighting force, then rose to command those troops as a general, and also served in the CIA and Pentagon on the strategic planning and management side of this equation.

He is also a Christian evangelist who speaks at churches nationwide. As a private citizen retired from the Army, General Boykin was invited to speak at a prayer breakfast at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He seems like an ideal choice, as someone who has served as the tip of the spear at the highest ranks, who is also a man of profoundly deep faith.

But the Far Left exploded. Boykin has cast America's war against radical Islamic terrorists as fighting Satan. So his religious language has made strange bedfellows of various Islamic groups joining with atheists to call on West Point to disinvite this American hero who risked and achieved so much for this country. Evidently it's not politically correct to suggest that blowing up children is the devil's work.

After heavy pressure, General Boykin chose to withdraw. This soldier fears no foe, but the situation evolved in a direction where his message of faith and courage would be overshadowed by controversy to the possible detriment of the West Point cadets.

This sad episode is yet another example of the Obama administration's ongoing hostility to people of faith, especially Christians. President Obama's pick to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a lesbian activist who says that homosexual rights should always trump religious liberty. This is the same EEOC that argued it had the power to order a church to reinstate as a minister a person the church had fired for violating church teaching, a position the Supreme Court unanimously rejected. And the administration has enacted regulations under Obamacare forcing Evangelical and Catholic universities and hospitals to provide contraceptives against the religious beliefs of those church-affiliated institutions.

Now this hostility is doing a disservice to our military. People of deep faith are opposed and marginalized by the Obama administration's civilian political appointees. Weeks ago, they were caught banning Bible reading at Walter Reed hospital, a policy they immediately reversed when the media picked it up and House Republicans demanded answers.

All this paints a picture of radical secularism. Many of the greatest heroes our military has ever seen were people of fervent prayer and deep faith. Many find their battlefield courage in their unshakeable belief that their sins are forgiven, their lives are in God's hands, and that when they die they would go to an eternal reward.

Sounds like the kind of people you want at a prayer breakfast for those who may soon land on one of those battlefields.


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Comments

mmccrindle

The Quran not only mandates intolerance and hatred towards all infidels it also mandates blind obedience to it's doctrine.

Any oath of allegence taken by any 'believer' is trumped by the Quran.

What in the hell are muslims doing at West Point?

Posted February 2, 2012 at 8:25:51 AM


TruthInAction

This is outrageous and appalling.

Posted February 2, 2012 at 9:30:14 AM


wjmccrindle

The rise of the third Reich was reached in part by taking over the Church, and bending it to the will of the Nazis. Those that resisted were arrested, and many murdered. Read the Book "Bohnhoeffer", a christian martyr murdered just prior to the fall of Berlin. The parrallels of Nazi Germany to what Obamao is doing are truly frightening. He means to become dictator. He must be stopped.

Posted February 2, 2012 at 9:46:50 AM


Oathkeeper Scott

As an atheist active duty member of our military, I am *not* threatened or oppressed by a devout Christian speaker at a prayer breakfast. It's a prayer breakfast... Duh!

It's my hope that cadets of other than Christian beliefs could listen to the good General's opinions and make their own decisions. We expect strong independent, thoughtful decision-making from these developing leaders. Do we expect so little of them? Don't we want them exposed to a wide range of opinion? If not the good General, then whom?

The assumption that West Point, the DoD, and these cadets' development could be somehow sullied or damaged by the opinions of the General is at the heart of the problem with our litigious, responsibility-confused, collectivist/statist-infused society that is mass-producing sheeple and slaves for a burgeoning tyrannny.

Those of us that have taken our oath to defend the Constitution, must ensure the now exponentially-growing tyranny is never enabled by the strength of our arms. ...Against all enemies, foreign **and domestic**...

Posted February 2, 2012 at 1:13:17 PM


TJS

Disgusting. We must sweep out the liberals and thus stop their war on US culture.

Posted February 2, 2012 at 1:49:33 PM


JAC

What is worse about this situation is that it was CAIR that instigated all this bulls**t at West Point, and the left backed them to the hilt!

Posted February 2, 2012 at 2:55:47 PM


BJ

I'll say it again: The left are not just another political party and our contemporaries. They are "THE LEFT" subversive leftist commie socialist traitorous radical vermin. We've allowed them to set the decay of their beings in our society without consequence when in reality each time they spout their diseased leftist BS about any American subject we should be b-tch slapping them back into their sewer holes.

Later I'll tell you how I really feel.

TERM LIMITS-IMPEACH-PROSECUTE

Posted February 2, 2012 at 3:24:33 PM


Joe

What's next, outlawing military chaplains because the left says it violates separation of church and state? Good grief!!!

Posted February 2, 2012 at 4:39:39 PM


J Paul

It seems that three and a half years ago the Democratic Party revealed itself as a Trojan horse subsumed by the left; and out of it appeared the Anti-President.

Posted February 2, 2012 at 7:38:39 PM


officegal

Unbelievable. How long will Americans be silent and accept this junk?

Posted February 3, 2012 at 9:56:21 AM


FREDO

I've said it before and I'll say it again; I don't care what words come out of his mouth, in his secret heart of hearts, the man is a muslim!

Posted February 3, 2012 at 2:51:39 PM


rippedchef

can't fault Obama-Johnson started all this mess with the great society bullstuff in 1960 and now its come to this-a total social breakdown.I'm no alarmist but if he's elected and it does get ugly,I'll be ready

Posted February 3, 2012 at 4:25:07 PM


Sherry

He continues to flout the limitations of his authority and still the Senate actively supports him by not impeaching him. It is the responsibility of the Senate to impeach him. This is co-dependence in operation. Congress is enabling the usurpations of authority by not doing their jobs. Ignorance is no excuse. They are there to uphold the Constitution. They have no other purpose. They are failing in their reason for existence. It is the people's responsibility to hold them accountable for doing their job. Talk is cheap. We need courageous people to stop them but as long as the majority of American continue to being the lies that are pumped through the media messaging centers this nation will come to its expected violent end. Every democracy comes to a violent end. The republic of the United States of America stands or falls based on people upholding their end of the distribution of power. We are not supposed to distribute the power of our vote to socialists whether Republican or Democrat.

Posted February 3, 2012 at 5:12:09 PM


Kevin Johnson

I just can't believe this is happening in this country. Our military is required to handle the koran with kid gloves and treat it with solemn respect In a prison full of our muslim enemies' yet our president who claims to be a christian tries to forbid our wounded soldiers the right to read the bible while in the hospital. Draw your own conclutions if you want, but I think Obama is a muslim, at any rate he clearly is on thier side. We must remove him from office asap!

Posted February 4, 2012 at 8:50:23 PM


Abu Nudnik

I think a Lieutenant-General is a rank of Lieutenant, not a rank of General, just as a Sergeant-Major is the Major over all other Sergeants.

Posted February 6, 2012 at 1:02:50 PM


corbin Douthitt

The Left is NEVER happy when the truth is exposed and spoken. They will always rail against those who do not kowtow to their beliefs. We are in a battle against radical Islam. Although it is difficult and nigh unto impossible to tell the difference between a radical Islamist and an ordinary Muslim, unless one of them is wearing a bomb. Islam will never integrate into any society. Islam always infiltrates a society, until it can control that society via Sharia Law, and then force it to become Muslim.

Posted February 6, 2012 at 3:31:39 PM


idaho mom

How do you kill 11 Million people? According to author Andy Andrews, you lie to them. Read that book! The truth matters more than you think. Of course I might be preaching to the choir in this crowd. But it is a good wake up call book, easy to read 75 pages, and is something that Dems and Reps can agree on. It's great a pass along. We need the truth from Obama! Why? What? When? Come on America, wake up! Name calling and demonizing each other is exactly where those that are lying to us want us to go. Remember Divide and conquer?

Posted February 6, 2012 at 6:30:06 PM


count

how many mentally ill government "pretty boy in uniform" homosexual rights trump religious liberty responsible gun owner felon rights?

vive le terror and 911 pig

Posted February 9, 2012 at 3:37:32 PM


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