Soldiers barred from praying

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Soldiers barred from praying

Tale: The ACLU is seeking to forbid soldiers from praying in public

Status: False

One line rebuttal: There is no "Lucius Traveler" working at ACLU nor there is any ACLU case similar to the one described

Example: "These are federal employees," says Lucius Traveler, a spokesman for the ACLU, "on federal property and on federal time. For them to pray is clearly an establishment of religion, and we must nip this in the bud immediately."

Snopes: On their page titled Grave Concerns Snopes actually does an excellent job of proving this is a false tale:

From Snopes

Origins: Over the years, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (and other related groups) have opposed the display of religious monuments and symbols on state-owned or state-maintained property. Some recent examples of these objects of contention include .. a monument to the Ten Commandments in Alabama's state judicial building..

someone obtained a photograph of uniformed servicemen bowing their heads during a ceremony and concocted a fabricated caption claiming that the ACLU objected to the occasion because it constituted "federal employees praying on federal property and on federal time"

In regards to the latest urban legend that includes a picture of Marines praying and a quote from a supposed ACLU spokesperson, we have no knowledge of this event nor have we ever had a spokesperson by the name of Lucius Traveler