Endorsing the Agency for two chaplains conservative demand goes on education Pastoral Programme clashes

Fox News and Breibart story on a federal lawsuit filed last week by the Agency's two military chaplains who were expelled from a Clinical Pastoral Education program run by the Department of Veterans Affairs in San Diego. The program is required to work as a chaplain at a veterans hospital. The two chaplains, which were endorsed by the Conservative Baptist Association of America, continually clashed in class with the liberal religious instructor, Nancy Dietsch.  The complaint (full text) Conservative Baptist Association of America, Inc. v. Shenseki, (D DC, presented the 08/11/2013), presents examples of exchanges in the classroom between Dietsch and Steven Firtko and Dan Klender, chaplains, among which are:

... Dietsch said the kind who believes that God could be a man or a woman. Chaplain Firtko recited the Lord's prayer, saying "our father who art in heaven." In response, Ms. Dietsch angrily banged his fist on the table and shouted: "do not quote Scripture in this class!"....

Klender chaplain when he responded to a question during a discussion group on shooting in Newtown CT, claiming that it would have a father whose son was victim stating that "there is evil in the world," the Ms. Dietsch disputed convictions of faith affirming that they do not work in a clinical setting Sandy Hook school. In the presence of the other students said: "do not actually think that truth?"

Dietsch said also that the class that will the and she "do not allow chaplains to pray 'in the name of Jesus' in public ceremonies."The lawsuit alleges that the intolerance of the program of the dominant Judeo-Christian beliefs violates RFRA, free exercise of the first amendment and freedom of speech clauses. He also claims that discrimination against chaplains of the Conservative Baptist Association was arbitrary and capricious.In a statement to the media, the VA says that two chaplains "bullying other classmates and refusing to honor other faith groups." [Corrected to make clear that that applicant is the Agency, not the military chaplains. Thanks to God and the homeland blog.]