Putting Fire & Brimstone on Ice: The Restriction of Chaplain Speech During Religious Worship Services

摘要

While the members of the military are not excluded from the protection granted by the First Amendment, the different character of the military community and of the military mission requires a different application of those protections. The fundamental necessity for obedience, and the consequent necessity for imposition of discipline, may render permissible within the military that which would be constitutionally impermissible outside it.