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Advocates for religious freedom told lawmakers Wednesday that there is an increasing climate of intolerance toward people of faith in the military and called for Congress to keep up pressure on the Pentagon to ensure service members’ First Amendment rights aren’t violated.

“Our service men and women do not give up their religious freedom and constitutional rights simply because they join the military,” Travis Weber, a former Navy pilot and director of the Family Research Council’s Center for Religious Liberty told a House Armed Services subcommittee.

“Simple objection to another’s religious speech is not a basis for silencing that speech. Unfortunately, that seems to be the current view adopted by many commanders and some military policy,” he said.

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