WASHINGTON – A legal feud between former servicemembers on the issue of public expression of religion in the military is entering round two. Gordon Klingenschmitt, a Navy chaplain who fought for the right to address public prayers to Jesus before being pushed out of the service in 2007, has filed a defamation lawsuit in New Mexico’s …
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VICTORY: District Court Affirms Right of Chaplains to Offer Imprecatory Prayers, Grants TRI Request to Dismiss Lawsuit
DALLAS, Texas—Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have succeeded in getting a lawsuit dismissed against a chaplaincy endorsing organization that was being sued over allegations that a chaplain affiliated with the group solicited imprecatory prayers which the plaintiffs considered to be “terroristic threats.” The lawsuit, which defined imprecatory prayer as “prayers for the Lord to protect …
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