Pentagon Investigates Air Force Chaplain Chief's Prayers
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an advocacy group that promotes civil rights, on July 25 penned a letter to the Pentagon's acting Inspector General Glenn A. Fine after the group discovered the service's chief of chaplains, Maj. Gen. Dondi Costin, offered a benediction at a July 12 "Torchbearer Award" ceremony in Washington D.C., while in uniform. The event was arranged by a private organization.
The letter, signed by the group's president Mikey Weinstein, stated Costin "blatantly violated both Air Force and DoD regulations prohibiting the endorsement of a non-federal entity by appearing in uniform and delivering the official benediction at a Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty (CARL) event."...
