[orthodoc]

I do remember, I just don't agree. The gifts aren't paid for by the government. The Marines are a clearinghouse. If they do give a privately donated religious item to someone who specifically asks for it, that isn't 'establishing a religion'. It's just not.

If no government employee should so much as touch a religious item in connection with his/her duties, should we abolish all chaplains of every sort from the military? Having chaplains of every religion and denomination represented within the Armed Forces, so far as possible, provides greater freedom of religion and expression, not less. And it doesn't establish one particular religion. In the same way, giving out donated religious items to people who specifically request that item doesn't establish one religion.