An article from the Fall 2007 symposium issue of the West Virginia Law Review, Volume 110, on “The Religion Clauses in the 21st Century.” The symposium was convened by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the West Virginia University College of Law on October April 12 and 13, 2007.

As part of the series of papers from the symposium panel “The Religion Clauses in Institutional Contexts,” Ira C. Lupu, the F. Elwood and Eleanor Davis Professor of Law and Robert W. Tuttle, Professor of Law and the David R. and Sherry Kirschner Berz Research Professor of Law and Religion, both from the George Washington University Law School wrote on “Instruments of Accommodation: The Military Chaplaincy and the Constitution.” “Chip Lupu and Robert Tuttle present the most thorough treatment yet written of the constitutional issues surrounding the military chaplaincy. They argue that the existence of the chaplaincy is best seen and defended as a permissible accommodation of the religious needs of service personnel. Lupu and Tuttle then apply the law of religious accommodation to several specific issues regarding the military chaplaincy that have provoked controversy in recent years, including the policies used in hiring, promoting, and retaining chaplains; the content of chaplains’ prayers during official service functions, and the propriety of proselytizing by chaplains in certain pastoral care settings.” - From Introduction by William P. Marshall, Vivian E. Hamilton and John E. Taylor.