CAPITOL HILL PRESS CONFERENCE ON LT. BERRY
August 3, 1999
On Wednesday, August 4, the Catholic
League will sponsor a press conference in Washington, D.C.
regarding the case of Lt. Ryan Berry. Lt. Berry is requesting that
the Air Force accommodate his religious liberty objections to
being forced to work with women in an underground silo; the close
quarters that this duty entails, Lt. Berry insists, would create
an occasion of sin. The officer does not object to women in the
military, and simply wants the Air Force to provide for an
exemption from this specific duty, the way it did for a
year-and-a-half before it reversed its position.
The press conference will take place at the House Office
Triangle on Capitol Hill at 1:00 p.m. Attending will be Lt. Ryan
Berry, his wife and daughter, Berry’s attorney, Henry Hamilton,
Congressman Roscoe G. Bartlett of Maryland, and Catholic League
president William Donohue. Lt. Berry is being supported in his
effort by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien of the Archdiocese for the
Military Services, U.S.A., John Cardinal O’Connor, Archbishop of
New York, and others.
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