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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Mon Jun 15, 2015, 04:54 PM Jun 2015

Court upholds Sikh’s right to facial hair, turban in ROTC

Kimberly Winston

(RNS) A federal court has ruled that a Sikh college student must be allowed to join his school’s Army ROTC with his long hair, beard and turban intact.

In her decision, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., said on Friday (June 12) that the Army has made so many exceptions for secular grooming issues — more than 197,000, including a “vampire Mickey Mouse” tattoo — that it had to make an exception here to comply with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/06/15/court-upholds-sikhs-right-facial-hair-turban-rotc/

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