Ethics

Jim Ammerman's Lunacy

By Ed Brayton

You probably don't know who Jim Ammerman is. You should. He is the founder of an organization called the Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches (CFGC), which provides the official endorsements for 270 chaplains and chaplain candidates in the U.S. military (including the disgraced Gordon Klingenschmitt, who retains his endorsement from the group despite having been discharged from the military). Ammerman was himself an Army Colonel.

Kathryn Joyce has an article in Newsweek that contained a good deal of information about Ammerman. Chris Rodda also had an article about him at the Huffington Post that revealed just how much of an utter lunatic the man is. For example, the September 2006 CFGC newsletter claims that Muslims cannot be good Americans and should all be considered suspect:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 22, 2009 (boomark / email).