The Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty has sent a letter to the acting Secretary of the Army after former army secretary Eric Fanning signed a controversial directive hours before he departed.

Fanning became the first open homosexual to lead the U.S. Army as secretary, and his vision of an “inclusive” army included “Army Directive 2017-06” to “foster diversity and inclusion” in the ranks.

The alliance took particular offense to Fanning’s order to create “Unconscious Bias Training” within the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, setting a date of March 1 to implement it.

“Secretary Fanning was very proud of the fact that he was the first Secretary of the Army who is a homosexual,” observes Chaplain Alliance spokesman Ron Crews, a retired U.S. Army colonel.

“And it was just one more attempt,” Crews says of the directive, “to push a social agenda at the expense, may I say, of readiness.”

While Obama allowed the U.S. armed forces to shrink to pre-World War II levels, OneNewsNow has reported that he declared “global warming” the biggest threat to national security and celebrated a “green” Navy that powers ships with beef fat, among other “triumps” of the last eight years.

The new Trump administration, however, has inherited a U.S. Navy in which two-thirds of the Navy’s aircraft are unable to fly, Defense News reported.

Crews and the Chaplain Alliance, meanwhile, drew attention to an anti-religious environment that repeatedly attacked chaplains for their biblical views about sexuality and marriage at the same time “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was left behind.

The acting Army Secretary is also an Obama holdover so Crews predicts that Defense Secretary James Mattis might have to intervene.

“Being a military person myself, I know you go through channels, and that’s the acting army secretary,” says Crews. “However, we immediately have sent a courtesy copy to General Mattis and asking him to intervene as well.”