The Department of Defense may want to set up a conflict between its policy and federal law written by Congress and signed by the president, but several thousand evangelical Christian chaplains in the military will have no part of it.
That's according to an announcement today from the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, whose members are various Christian church denominations or groups that "endorse" chaplains for the United States military.
Chaplains must have those endorsers, or outside groups that affirm that the individual chaplain is qualified for the leadership post as chaplain, in order to be in the military....
