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Obama violated Army Chaplin’s First Amendment Rights

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Chaplain (Maj.) Mike Martinez celebrates Mass for Arizona Air National Guardsmen. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo-Tech. Sgt. Hollie Hansen.

Washington D.C., Feb 7, 2012 / 06:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The archbishop who oversees American Catholic military chaplains worldwide claims the U.S. Army violated his rights by stifling a pastoral letter condemning the Obama administration’s contraception mandate.

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio stands “firm in the belief, based on legal precedent,” that the Army defied his rights to free speech and free exercise of religion, according to a Feb. 3 statement from the military archdiocese.

U.S. Catholic military chaplains around the country were initially told to disobey their archbishop’s instruction to read a pastoral letter from the pulpit at all Sunday Masses on Jan. 28-29.

Although an agreement was eventually reached allowing the letter to be read, a key passage urging Catholics to

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