White House Answers Two Year Old Military Atheist Petition
In 2011 Dustin Chalker, a former Army Sergeant and now-discarded plaintiff of Michael Weinstein’s MRFF, created a petition on WhiteHouse.gov calling for an “End [to] the Military’s Discrimination against Non-Religious Service Members.”
The petition was two years old and was the second oldest unanswered petition on the site. The White House responded last Friday:
Thank you for your petition regarding the importance of ensuring non-religious members of our armed forces are not discriminated against…
The Obama Administration strongly supports every American’s right to religious freedom. This support extends equally both to the many members of our armed forces who hold religious beliefs and to those members of the military who do not hold such beliefs.
The response then addresses the Army’s Global Assessment Tool, which changed last year. In essence, the response to the petition says it is moot.
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