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U.S. Navy's refusal to appoint a humanist as a chaplain, spurred in part by a <span style="text-decoration: underline">letter</span> from 23 Senators calling on U.S. Navy leadership to ban humanist chaplains, demeans the nonreligious men and women bravely serving in our armed forces, said the Center for Inquiry. 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