‘any decision as a result of any claim, objection, or protest made by MRFF without the authority of the Secretary of Defense’
‘In response to the backlash from the archdiocese, the First Liberty Institute and the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, Walter Reed told Catholic News Agency that it was "reviewing the contract and unable to provide specifics.’
‘A number of accommodation processes were fragmented and difficult for service members and approving officials to navigate without a standardized and transparent system of record’
‘This policy is not just illegal, it shamefully politicizes the military, circumvents the authority of Congress, and exceeds the authority of the Department of Defense’
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.”
‘In a recent column by Dr. Ron Crews, the executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, and Joseph Infranco, senior counsel and vice president for alliance coordination with Alliance Defending Freedom, they documented the Military Religious Freedom Foundation’s fight against the overt expression of faith by chaplains’
‘Congress passed clear language to protect the freedom of religion and conscience of military personnel in the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act; however, DoD has never fully implemented training to make sure commanders, military lawyers, and chaplains fully understand what these protections mean and how to apply them’
