Navy bans troops from indoor religious services but permits protests and house parties, law firm say

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Navy bans troops from indoor religious services but permits protests and house parties, law firm says
Chaplains, religious liberty law firm calls on Navy to reverse order
 
By Caleb Parke | Fox News

 

The Navy is banning service members from attending indoor religious services due to the coronavirus and troops could be court-martialed as punishment, a religious freedom law firm tells Fox News.

Major Daniel Schultz, USAF, currently assigned to a Navy command, is requesting a religious accommodation to attend the church where he leads worship after the Navy issued an order on June 24 stating "service members are prohibited from visiting, patronizing, or engaging in . . . indoor religious services.”

Mike Berry, the First Liberty Institute general counsel who sent a letter on behalf of Shultz on Monday morning, called the order "unlawful and immoral" and is calling on President Trump to immediately demand its removal.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/navy-church-service-coronavirus-troops

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If, as the article claims numerous times that the order is "unlawful", then servicemembers are under no obligation to obey it.

Commanders usually have a lot of latitude in issuing orders to protect those under their charge, but this one just smacks of sheer hypocrisy or discrimination against people of faith.