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Department of Justice Responds to Military Religious Freedom Lawsuit |
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A lawsuit alleging the widespread, systemic promotion of Christianity
within the U.S. military amounts to no more than "generalized
grievances", and the plaintiff in the case failed to seek proper remedy
from his superiors, according to a Justice Department memo filed
Thursday in support of the Defense Department's motion to dismiss the
case. The memo argues that the military has the "proper balance between
the religious freedoms of soldier and chaplains."
Associated Press reports that Mikey Weinstein, head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation that brought the case, is not impressed.
Weinstein and two Topeka attorneys involved in the lawsuit said the
government is wrong about the facts of the case and misinterpreting
past court decisions. Weinstein said the Justice Department is
parroting some evangelical Christians’ “revisionist” version of
American history.
“I’m literally thunderstruck by its plethora of fatal flaws,”
Weinstein said of the government response. “I’d have expected better
from a junior high civics class.”
You can read the DOJ response, via MRFF, here .
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