Navy to reevaluate religious accommodations for facial hair
The DoD released a memorandum in March calling for service members to provide proof of their religious beliefs to qualify for facial hair waivers.
By Riley Ceder
Latest ""
Appeals court weighs order to force Corps to accommodate Sikhs
Sikh plaintiffs maintain that rules forbidding them from wearing their articles of faith in boot camp violate their religious liberty.
3 Sikhs keep fighting to go to Marine boot camp with turbans, beards
The Marine Corps has said it would allow the men to wear the articles of faith with limitations once the 13 weeks of boot camp conclude.
Judge declined to halt ban on religious articles in Marine boot camp
The Marine Corps, unlike other services, does not allow religious articles of faith in recruit training, such as a Sikh beard or turban.
By Todd South
Sikh Marine captain, poolees file federal lawsuit alleging discrimination
The co-defendant urge the Corps to lift restrictions on the practice of their faith while in combat or recruit training.
By Todd South
How the US military embraced America’s religious diversity
In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, the chaplaincy was a majority white and fully Christian organization. That changed.
By Ronit Y. Stahl, University of California, Berkeley