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While I can appreciate the zeal that Army chaplain Josh Llano brings to his job, I’m not sure that blackmailing the troops in Iraq into being baptized by hoarding water<\/a> is good theological practice.<\/p>\n

Of course, I’m not sure where Llano got this “500-gallon pool of pristine, cool water” from. I presume <\/i>it’s not an Army resource. Otherwise, not only would it be a misappropriation of a valuable asset, but it would be grossly prejudicial to non-Christian soldiers.<\/p>\n

I’m also not sure how “pristine” it still is if he’s been so busy doing full-immersion baptisms of soldiers.<\/p>\n

(via Scott<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n

UPDATE (6 Apr): Volokh <\/a>is appropriately appalled, too, and has the legal chops for it. Some additional info and speculation, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I can appreciate the zeal that Army chaplain Josh Llano brings to his job, I’m not sure that blackmailing the troops in Iraq into being baptized by hoarding water…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":434,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/15\/living_waters_r.html","url_meta":{"origin":3718,"position":0},"title":"Living waters, redux","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Apr-03 3:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It sounds like the \"Coercive Baptisms\" incident might be cleared up. 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