The Patriot Post® · Friday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• Tony Perkins: Navy: No Destroyer of the Chaplaincy
• Marc A. Thiessen: Why Conservative Christians Are Sticking With Trump
• David Harsanyi: The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica ‘Scandal’ Is a Nothingburger
• Jonah Goldberg: Iggy the Crusader Victimized by a Misguided Crusade
• Gary Bauer: Left-Wing Hypocrisy

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Opinion in Brief

Tony Perkins: “If Jason Heap is one thing, it’s persistent. The DC-based humanist had already lost his bid to join the Navy chaplaincy under the Obama administration. He had to know that his application was an even longer shot under President Trump. Still, Heap filed again, hoping Navy officials would be more lax the second time around. Thanks two of the Hill’s conservatives, they weren’t. … This week … Heap’s request was denied. … If the military wants to create specific programs for atheists or humanists, it can. There’s no need to hijack the Chaplain Corps to serve them — unless, as I suspect, the real goal had nothing to do with service to begin with. Either way, we salute the Navy for protecting the integrity of the chaplaincy, ‘For God and Country.’”