A week after Colorado’s 5th Congressional District Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn and several dozen of his colleagues in Congress implored the U.S. Navy in a letter to turn down a secular humanist’s request to serve in the chaplain corps – the Navy has done just that. That news comes to us via a press release from Lamborn’s office on Wednesday.

Lamborn lauded the decision and reiterated his reasoning in the press statement:

‘Appointing a secular-humanist or atheist chaplain would have gone against everything the chaplaincy was created to do. I applaud the Navy for upholding a traditional definition of the chaplaincy, which has been repeatedly confirmed by Congress and the DOD. The installment of an atheist chaplain would inevitably open the door to a host of chaplains representing many other philosophical worldviews, thus eroding the distinct religious function of the chaplain corps to the detriment of service members.’

Which presumably closes the book on the subject. For now, at least.