Ron Crews, executive director with Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, said the Marine Corps’ decision to cancel a leadership seminar for military lawyers simply because the speaker is an evangelical Christian is especially alarming because Marine JAG officers are “the ones commanders rely on when questions about religious liberty come up.'“

“Are these JAGs being taught by this example that whenever there’s a complaint, you don’t investigate, you just give in? Crews asked. “That’s a real concern to me.”