Written by Jorge Gomez
This week, a federal appeals court issued a favorable ruling impacting thousands of military service members. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld an injunction protecting U.S. Air Force service members from being punished or involuntarily terminated from the military for requesting religious accommodations to the vaccine mandate. Importantly, this protects First Liberty’s own Senior Counsel Danielle Runyan, a member of the Air Force Reserve, whose religious accommodation request was denied.… Continue Reading
Tags: Air Force Reserve, Danielle Runyan, Department of Defense, Marine Corps Reserve, Mike Berry, Navy, Navy SEALs, religious accommodations, Religious exemption, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps
Federal Issues, Religious Liberty | David E. Smith | 
December 3, 2022 7:00 AM | 
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Written by Jorge Gomez
A federal judge recently issued a temporary order preventing disciplinary action against two officers who requested a religious accommodation to the military vaccine mandate.
Judge Steven Merryday—serving on the District Court for the Middle District of Florida—strongly rebuked the military’s approach to religious accommodation requests. His order stated:
“The military is well aware of the frailty of their arguments in defense of their practices… The two service members are very likely to prevail on their claim that their respective branch of the military has wrongfully denied a religious exemption from COVID-19 vaccination.
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Written by Dr. Everett Piper
[On] Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), conducted a hearing on the issue of COVID-19 interventions. More specifically, the senator invited testimony regarding our military’s new practice of requiring mRNA injections of all our nation’s soldiers. Mr. Johnson’s goal was quite simple and straightforward. He wanted to learn what the available data shows concerning this new drug’s efficacy and potential side effects.
Why is this important?
Well, it is pretty simple.… Continue Reading
Tags: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID–19, Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, Department of Defense, Joe Rogan, mRNA vaccine, Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, vaccine mandate
COVID, Federal Issues | David E. Smith | February 2, 2022 6:00 AM | Comments Off on COVID-19 Science or Blind Compliance
Written by Austin Bay
The psychological-warfare attack — its script straight from the antifa/Black Lives Matter version of the Cold War’s Marxist playbook — began in January when the predictable chorus of hard-left hacks in academia, media and government vilified the American military with toxic allegations calculated to demoralize military personnel, sow destructive institutional suspicion and undermine command authority with the goal of weakening U.S. national security.
The propaganda ploy the hard left’s commissars, fuhrers and utopian messiahs use in their psychological assault first targets individuals. … Continue Reading
Tags: Air Force, Army, Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, Democratic Party, Department of Defense, Marines, national security, Navy, Tom Cotton, U.S. Military
Federal Issues | David E. Smith | March 31, 2021 8:00 AM | Comments Off on U.S. Senator Cotton Challenges the Left’s Psy-War Assault on the U.S. Military
Written by Daniel Horowitz
IS THERE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY?
FOR THE “TRANSGENDERED,” APPARENTLY YES.
Throughout our series on judicial tyranny, I’ve been trying to conjure up analogies and metaphors to describe the absurdity of judicial supremacism. Yet, no degree of absurdity or hyperbole could capture what was just promulgated from the mouth of a federal district judge.
Forget about legislating from the bench or even nullifying the Constitution; D.C. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an order Monday changing the laws of biology and ordered the Pentagon to admit anyone who decides to castrate themselves into the military by Jan.… Continue Reading
Tags: Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Department of Defense, Donald Trump, judicial supremacism, Legal Advocates & Defenders, Military, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Transgender military ban, transgender troops, Trump Administration
Federal Issues, LGBTQ Agenda | David E. Smith | December 13, 2017 12:00 PM | Comments Off on WHERE is Congress on Court’s (Self-)Mutilation of the Military?
Written by Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD
“New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, and Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, introduced a bipartisan amendment to protect transgender service members from President Trump’s plan to ban them from the military,” reports Time.
“The amendment introduced Monday would prohibit the Department of Defense from dismissing current transgender service members ‘solely on the basis of the member’s gender identity,’ Senators said in a statment.
“Any individual who wants to join our military and meets the standards should be allowed to serve, period.… Continue Reading
