Scripting the Chaplains, Political Correctness Running Amok

Chaplains have a long and storied history in the United States of America, serving in theaters of war, military hospitals, ministering to prisoners, in hospices, and there is even a chaplain for the United States Senate.

Down in Florida, though, news comes to us that the chaplain for Hospice By The Sea, in Boca Raton, will no longer be allowed to use the word God in public settings.

A chaplain at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton has resigned, she says, over a ban on use of the words “God” or “Lord” in public settings…Hospice CEO Paula Alderson said the ban on religious references applies only to the inspirational messages that chaplains deliver in staff meetings. The hospice remains fully comfortable with ministers, priests and rabbis offering religious counsel to the dying and grieving.

Hey, it’s okay to use the word God when comforting the dying, heck, they’re on their way out anyway and probably can’t or won’t object to hearing the word God, but as for the healthy folk who staff the hospice, we can’t let them hear the word God, in public, as it may be an imposition on them, heck, the healthy may keel right over and die if they hear the word God.

I am all for keeping God out of politics, especially legislation, but this all consuming fear of utilizing the word God in public settings is too much.  Why are individuals so afraid of, or offended by, the use of the word God?  It seems rather irrational to me.

Chaplain at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton resigns over ban on word ‘God’

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