After having previously refusing to grant a temporary restraining order (see prior posting), last week, according to yesterday's Navy Times, a federal district court in the District of Columbia refused to grant an injunction to Navy Chaplain Gordon J. Klingenschmitt to keep him in the Navy beyond his January 31 discharge date. The controversial Chaplain who has been challenging the Navy's policy on sectarian prayers by chaplains resigned from the Evangelical Episcopal Church and obtained a new endorsement as a chaplain from the Full Gospel Church. The Navy treated this as a new application and rejected it. Klingenschmitt claims that the Navy has permitted as many as 42 other chaplains to change endorsers without losing their positions.
UPDATE: On January 24, the Air Force Times reported that Klingenschmitt asked the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to reconsider the district court's denial of an injunction to prevent his discharge.
