The Rutherford Institute
announced yesterday that it has filed a petition for certiorari (
full text) in
In re Navy Chaplaincy. In the long-running case, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a preliminary injunction in a challenge to the Navy's procedures for promoting members of the Navy Chaplains Corps. Petitioners argue that the current procedures favor Catholics and liturgical Protestants over various non-liturgical denominations.