US military forced to remove prayer videos from army chaplains
Fri 24 Apr 2020by Premier Journalist
A number of prayer videos posted by US Army chaplains have been removed from Facebook following a series of complaints. The prayers, offered as a means of comfort during the coronavirus pandemic, were labelled by an atheist campaign group as being "illicit proselytizing" and not suitable for official military social media channels.
The videos in question featured chaplains Cpt. Amy Smith and Maj. Scott Ingram, who posted them to the Facebook page of the Army's 10th Mountain Division Sustainment Brigade at Fort Drum, N.Y.
As a result, a group called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), led by founder and president Mikey Weinstein, sent a cease and desist letter claiming that the content violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
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