The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a $513 billion dollar defense bill yesterday. Included in the bill was a provision that would allow military chaplains to pray in the name of Jesus at public military events. This comes in response to new Air Force and Navy guidelines that allow military chaplains to pray in the name of Jesus at voluntary events, but require them to pray non-sectarian prayers at public events.
Focus on the Family and the Christian Coalition had been pressing the White House to issue an executive order undercutting the new rules, but when the White House didn't act, some members of Congress did. The Chief of Navy Chaplains and the National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces, which provides more than 70 percent of chaplains to the armed forces, both objected to the House bill.
Fortunately, the provision will never make it out of a House and Senate conference committee.
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