Repeal of defense cuts gaining momentum, Rep. Turner says

weapons, has gained “momentum” in Congress, a Dayton congressman said.

U.S. Reps. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, and Jim Banks, R-Indiana, received classified briefings Tuesday at Wright-Patterson and toured the National Air and Space Intelligence Center as Congress is in the midst of hammering out the fiscal year 2018 defense budget and the U.S. and its allies face growing nuclear tensions with North Korea.

At a press conference Tuesday after the briefings, Turner said Congress was “one step closer” with the support of the Trump administration to repeal the Budget Control Act of 2011 that imposed sequestration through 2021.

Banks said repealing sequestration would help “rebuild” the military. Both Turner and Banks are members of the House Armed Services Committee. WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE

The Military Religious Freedom BASE — Foundation said it has filed a complaint about a Wright-Patterson Christian chaplain who in a blog post wrote military service members are “grossly in error, and deceived” if they support service members of some different faiths for practicing their religion under the Constitution.

Capt. Sonny Hernandez, an Air Force Reserve chaplain with the 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson, wrote in part on a Sept. 12 BarbWire.com blog post: “Counterfeit Christians in the Armed forces will appeal to the Constitution, and not Christ, and they have no local church home — which means they have no accountability for their souls (Heb. 13:17). This is what so many professing Christian service members will say: We ‘support everyone’s right’ to practice their faith regardless if they worship a god different from ours because the Constitution protects this right.”

He added in the post: “Christian service members who openly profess and support the rights of Muslims, Buddhists, and all other non-Christian worldviews to practice their religions — because the language in the Constitution permits — are grossly in error and deceived.”