Chaplains working in the city police department in Spokane, Wash., will have to remove all crosses from their badges to settle a lawsuit filed by a Christian pastor turned atheist.
Ray Ideus, a former Lutheran pastor of 30 years, claimed in his suit that the Christian-Latin cross included on the badges worn by chaplains in the Spokane Police Department is an “impermissible incorporation of a particular religious symbol in a government insignia.”
“It's very important that they'll have to take that cross off. It's not a Christian police department,” said Ideus, 75, according to the Associated Press.
“The chaplains have to minister to all faiths and non-faiths."
Ideus was countersued by the city attorney who asserted the lawsuit was “false, unfounded, malicious, and without probable cause.“ The countersuit is being dismissed, however, as part of the settlement, which Police Chief Anne E. Kirkpatrick announced to the City Council Monday night.
To those chaplains who wish to show their personal religious preferences, Kirkpatrick said they may still wear lapel pins with crosses or other insignia.
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amen TheWatch! I praise the Lord for the light of His Word! The more I see in this World, the more I draw closer to The LORD not from Him!! I mean look at this world, where would I go; HE is the TRUTH in a very dark and evil place. I praise the LORD that man is NOT the final voice; and praise be to God that JESUS has made a way for HIS children out of this place!
Let the GLORY OF THE LORD fill the earth and may the deeds of man be exposed for what they truly are! JESUS IS LORD! Let's fix our eyes on the LORD and not on any man! HE is the perfector of our Faith! I just finised a great book by Max Lucado 3:16 I highly recommend this book, what a blessing! What JESUS did for mankind, even now as I sit here, amazed at our God, that HE, the Holy One would come down out of Heaven and be born in my world, experience my world, and took my sin, the evil that I had done, upon Himself, and paid a debt that I could never pay. Jesus died for even this man and others like him, who will deny the Sovereign Lord.
Thank you, dear Lord for your unfailing love and grace, and for making a way out of this place, Thank you dear Jesus that in the twinkling of an eye, forever to live in Your embrace!! Hallelu YAH!
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