In September, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., issued an absurd regulation forbidding visitors to bring patients Bibles and other religious material.
“No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading material, and/or artifacts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit,” stated the memo.
Incredibly, that policy — which violated the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion — was left in effect for months. Only last week, when the policy became widely known, was it rescinded.
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, took to the floor of the House of Representatives to denounce the ban on religious material at the military hospital. He called on President Barack Obama to dismiss the officials who implemented it.
Contacted by Fox News, the hospital said the policy would be rewritten to make its purpose “crystal clear.”