The One News Now website reports today (December 9, 2011) that the Walter Reed military hospital in Bethesda, Maryland has rescinded a ban on Bibles and other religious materials given away during visits to wounded troops.
The ban was issued last September, but only came to light last week.
Iowa Congressman Steve King's office says that when he demanded an explanation, the hospital's senior officers told him the memo was improperly worded, and would be rewritten to affirm that religious items are "welcome in the hospital, if they are welcomed by the patient."
Walter Reed apologized on its website for its former policy, and said that patients' families may bring religious materials and that religious groups won't be barred from visiting.
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