Legal Opinion
Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches v. United States Navy
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 27, 2013No. 13-5071PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.
WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs, whom we’ll call simply the chaplains, are a group of current and former officers in the Navy Chaplain Corps who identify themselves as non-liturgical Christians, plus two chaplain-endorsing agencies. They sued in district court, claiming (among other things) that several of the Navy’s policies for promoting chaplains prefer Catholics and liturgical Protestants at the expense of various non-liturgical denominations. The basic argument is that the policies amount to disparate treatment of the…
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