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."
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 .
