Posted on 01/04/2017 5:23:56 PM PST by blackbetty59
In the final days of the Obama administration, the military has issued new guidelines for religious accommodations and dress.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Better grow that beard fast coz it’s coming off on the 21st.
The basis for this started years ago in regards to the yarmulke as an exception to the uniform code:
Perhaps the most notable American court decision involving the yarmulke is Goldman v. Weinberger, 475 U.S. 503 (1986). In Goldman, the U.S. Supreme Court was faced with the question of whether an Air Force policy prohibiting personnel from wearing headgear indoors violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, because it prohibited the wearing of a yarmulke. This post will summarize the Goldman decision, and a future post will discuss the legislative response and current law.....
....Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court decided Goldman in 1986, several congressmen introduced legislation that would allow members of the armed forces to wear certain religious apparel. Both in the Senate and in the House, the proposed legislation allowed religious apparel that was neat, conservative and unobtrusive. The proponents insisted that religious headgear, such as the yarmulke, would not disrupt military effectiveness. Opponents argued that making such an exception would be adverse to military uniformity and morale, it would be difficult to apply, and it would lead to much litigation over the appropriate standards. Although it failed to pass in 1987, the legislation was included as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989.
The current law is codified at 10 U.S.C. § 774. It allows a member of the armed forces to wear an item of religious apparel while in uniform, unless the Secretary concerned determines that it would interfere with the performance of military duties, or that it is not neat and conservative.
https://jewishandamericanlaw.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/yarmulke-in-the-military-part-1/
Are cornrows and dreads supposed to instill fear in an enemy?
Beards too? Turbans?
The modern US Army is laughable!
And MS-13 tatts and practices; don’t forget that.
Funny you said that: I actually pictured something similar in my head, and thought, “we let rastafarian stoners carry weapons in our military”?
NoME SaYiN'..?!
Shave their heads. All of them. Every soldier, marine, airman and sailor. Male and female. Every last one.
No, but my son was.
I was lucky to go in when Zumwalt was Chief of Naval Operations.
It went to hell after he retired.
Or during a fire fight.
LOL
That romantic image made me throw up in my mouth a little.
BHAAARRRRRRFFFFFF!!!!
I have respect for Sikhs. I know they are fierce fighters. I know all that.
But I was and am adamantly opposed to making grooming concessions for them in the US military. This is precisely why. It won’t stop at grooming, it is going to have to include any number of other things, such as clothing and such.
And to anyone who thinks this kind of thing does NOT have a deleterious effect on a military, they don’t know what they are talking about.
Oh Lord I hope so......this is so outrageous!!
Isn’t having different physical standards for men and women a violation of Title IX?
Also, leaving soon from the military if Trump’s generals have their way... Which they will.
Abso-f’ing-lutely!!!!!!
Please already, someone with common sense intervene!!!
Arrgghhh! I’m blind! What a horrible picture. Yuck.
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