U.S. House Republicans voted Friday to add a provision onto a defense bill that would ban pro-equality clergy and denominations from celebrating same-sex marriages at military chapels. The LA Times reports.
This move is just the latest in a long history of social-conservative restrictions upon the freedom of religious minorities — Jews, Muslims, atheists, Buddhists, and liberal Christians — in the armed services. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation uncovers new violations of religious freedom in the U.S. armed services on a weekly basis.