Marines can't deny Sikhs over their beards, court rules : NPR
A federal court has ruled that the Marine Corps can't deny Sikhs because of their unshorn beards and hair.
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A federal court has ruled that the Marine Corps can't deny Sikhs because of their unshorn beards and hair.
The elite unit argued that Sikh men needed to be ‘stripped of their individuality’ for troop uniformity, according to the court order.
In a historic move forward, a federal appeals court has ruled that Sikhs recruits in the US Marine Corps can keep a beard and wear turbans.
Judges from the District of Columbia's federal appeals court on Friday cited the Apresent Corps' boot camp rule of cutting hair and shaving beards as a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The
Three Sikh men, who fought for an exemption from a Marines grooming rule requiring them to shave beards, won in court