Delta Force Hero Can't Speak At West Point Due To His Christian Beliefs

[twyacht]

Guess where the Pressure came from?

http://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2012/02/01/delta_force_hero_cant_speak_at_west_point_because_of_his_christian_beliefs

Delta Force Hero Can't Speak at West Point Because of his Christian Beliefs

Feb 01, 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.

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Really?   

[Ping]

You have got to be kidding me?

[BAC]

Too Christian for a prayer breakfast?

[Solus]

I suspect it may have been more because he is outspoken about the true nature of Islam.

[tombogan03884]

Boykin was not involved in Mogadishu, and while he was involved in the search for Pablo Escobar he was under the Command of Gen. Garrison who was in command at Mogadishu.

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[RTFM]

He was on FOX news this morning and he tells a completely different story - more out of respect to the West Point commander who is also his close friend, he HE decided to bow out of the appointment to speak to keep the peace at West Point.

He was not told he could not come, he was not barred by hussein's house in going to West Point.
A lot of smoke by media that has nothing better to do than drum up juicy back story for something that is not really there. 

In his own words on television - not from a tippity typie blogger.

[Tyler Durden]

as an Air Force Academy grad, I can see where this is coming from.

There seems to be some in your face evangelicalism going on at least at USAFA.  supposedly.... 

so much so that the pendulum has swung back the other way and created people like Mikey Weinstein.

Mikey has created his ow Military Religious Freedom Foundation:

http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/

and this what they/he had to say about Jerry Boykin not talking at the Point:

http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Boykin_Combo_HZ_01-31-12.html
 

Mikey is a USAFA grad and a lawyer.  He has sent two, maybe three sons to USAFA who also went on to become lawyers.
 

[Tyler Durden]

Mikey's non-profit 501c3 organization sounds like a pretty good money making gig for him.

His salary is $218,201.

Seems to me that if his intentions were truly alltruistic he could do it for about $100 grand less.

Did I mention that Mikey is jewish?

[Rastus]

He was on FOX news this morning and he tells a completely different story - more out of respect to the West Point commander who is also his close friend, he HE decided to bow out of the appointment to speak to keep the peace at West Point.

He was not told he could not come, he was not barred by hussein's house in going to West Point.
A lot of smoke by media that has nothing better to do than drum up juicy back story for something that is not really there. 

In his own words on television - not from a tippity typie blogger.

So that's not confirmation of pressure existing?  From where does this political correctness eminate?

[Magoo541]

Mikey's non-profit 501c3 organization sounds like a pretty good money making gig for him.

His salary is $218,201.

Seems to me that if his intentions were truly alltruistic he could do it for about $100 grand less.

Did I mention that Mikey is jewish?

PIKER!  Rev. Jesse Jackson pulls down 430K from Rainbow Coalition, speaking engagements and the like and he never served in the military.  He's just down for the struggle....  


Which gets him a pass on his mistress(es)...