Add your nameSoldiers deserve better from their chaplains

Posted: May 11, 2020

On April 29, an evangelical Army chaplain distributed a book which hatefully claims "some people will be infected with the coronavirus as a specific judgment from God" against same-sex relationships.

Chaplain (Colonel) Moon H. Kim, senior chaplain at Camp Humphreys in South Korea, used his official email account to send a digital copy of the book, Coronavirus and Christ by John Piper, to his subordinate chaplains.

Military chaplains have important jobs: Ensure that service members are able to freely practice their religion, whatever it may be, while also providing them and their families with pastoral care. Chaplain Kim's unsolicited distribution of hateful anti-LGBTQ materials is a failure on both counts -- and many of his fellow chaplains are outraged.

Twenty-two chaplains, concerned for the religious liberty and pastoral care of their troops, reached out to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation for help asking the Pentagon to investigate and discipline Chaplain Kim. Let's show the Army that grassroots Christians across the country support these chaplains and their request to reprimand the colonel!

Sign the petition:

Dear Secretary Esper, Chaplain (Major General) Solhjem, Lieutenant General Bills, and Colonel Tremblay,

As American Christians, many of whom are veterans or family members of service members and veterans, we were appalled and embarrassed to learn that Chaplain (Colonel) Moon Kim had shared an unsolicited copy of John Piper's book "Coronavirus and Christ" with subordinate chaplains at Camp Humphreys via his official military email account.

This book claims that "some people will be infected with the coronavirus as a specific judgment from God" for same-sex relationships and other so-called "sins." Its unsolicited distribution is a violation of an Army chaplain's duty to provide pastoral care to all soldiers and to respect the religious freedom of each and every service member. As Christians, we offer our support to the 22 chaplains who reached out to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and we echo their call that Chaplain Kim be officially, swiftly, and visibly investigated and disciplined for his actions.

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