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Ex-Trump Air Force chaplain issues eye-popping warning on 'religious tyranny’

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AlterNet reports that former Air Force Reserve chaplain candidate Leigh Larson warned that the Trump administration’s reduction of Defense Department faith codes amounts to “religious tyranny.” She argues that narrowing more than 200 classifications to 31 allows the government to blur religious differences and weaken the administrative recognition needed for accommodations, spiritual care, holy-day guidance and burial practices.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth oversaw the consolidation earlier this year. Christian denominations with substantial theological differences were…

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