Brody's Notes... Discharged Ex-Navy Chaplain Klingenschmitt Favors Gay Exorcisms-Says Gay Men Are Women

By Mark Singer (Washington DC) JAN 23 | In an interview with David Pakman on his 'Midweek' political news & issues show,  former U. S. Navy chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who was discharged from active duty as a result of court martial, disciplinary proceedings, and gross insubordination told Pakman that the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, will force a draft, and he advocated gay exorcisms as an effective method of treatment for homosexuality, along with claims that Gay men are women.

Rob Boston, a senior policy analyst at Americans United for Separation of Church and State said of Klingenschmitt in an article he published in April of 2007:

Klingenschmitt claims he was drummed out of the Navy because he wanted to pray in the name of Jesus. In fact, he got tossed out for being insubordinate. Far from being a hero and a role model, Klingenschmitt is exactly what the military does not need: an officer who would not do what was expected of him.

Naval regulations forbid service members from wearing their uniforms to political or partisan events. This directive is clear and has been in place for a long time. Nevertheless, Klingenschmitt insisted on wearing his uniform to a Religious Right-hosted protest and press conference opposing the military’s inclusive policies on religion. He showed up on the street outside the White House in the company of former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, Religious Right activist Rob Schenck and Texas preacher-politician Rick Scarborough.

A former direct supervisor of Klingenschmitt's, Captain and Command Chaplain Norman Holcomb, USN (Ret.) writes:

“I was the dishonored ex-chaplain’s supervisor for the past 2 years. I found him to be totally untruthful, unethical and insubordinate. He was and is contemptuous of all authority. He was not court martialed for praying in Jesus’ name. I sent him out in uniform every week to pray at various ceremonies and functions. He always prayed in uniform and in Jesus’ name. He was never told that he could not pray in Jesus’ name. In fact, the issue of prayer had nothing at all to do with his dismissal from the Navy. He disobeyed the lawful order of a senior officer. I am sure that you understand that Navy Regulations forbid any of us, regardless of rank or position, to appear in uniform in support of any political or partisan event.”

Gordon Klingenschmitt

Captain Holcomb added:

“We have been relatively quiet regarding our ex-chaplain’s untruthfulness and lack of honor because we are embarrassed that one of our own could display such behavior in the name of our Lord. We wanted to spare all concerned the embarrassment associated with his dishonesty. However, it now seems that it would be wrong for those of us who know the truth to remain silent. I served with him and supervised him (as best as it was possible to supervise a person who refused to submit to lawful authority) and I know about his daily dishonesty and ‘spin’ of the truth.”

In an exhaustive investigative story about Klingenschmitt written by journalist and Editor-In-Chief Jason Leopold for media outlet, The Public Record, Leopold details some of Klingenschmitt's less than stellar character references and as he wrote in the August 2009 piece, "...claims [that] are flat-out lies."
Leopold also noted:

In February 2007, following his court-martial, Klingenschmitt sent a lengthy screed to Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter in which he came across as highly unstable and unwilling to accept the fact that he was denied his pension–hardly the voluntary gesture of a chaplain who said he sacrificed his livelihood for Jesus. His letter accused Navy officials of “raping” him because he filed a whistleblower complaint alleging his civil rights were violated.

Mikey Weinstein, the president and founder of the watchdog group The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), said the disgraced chaplain’s Oct. 6, 2006 e-mail to Vice Adm. Harvey requesting a cash settlement in exchange for dropping his complaints shows that Klingenschmitt is nothing more than a modern day “Judas Iscariot.”

“In my opinion, the shocking revelation of this blatantly extortionate demand letter for payoff money from Klingenschmitt to senior U.S. Navy leadership paints a crystal clear picture for all the world to see,” Weinstein said in an e-mail message. “That shamefully irrefutable picture is none other than one of a morbidly hypocritical, 21st Century, Judas Iscariot lustfully eager to betray his boundlessly self-professed piety, proselytizing ministry and missionary zeal for Jesus ‘for the right price’ to be paid to him by the United States Navy.

Read Leopold's entire story here: [ Link ]

The following is the video of Gordon Klingenschmitt's appearance on The David Pakman Show: