The coalition's insistence on enforceable standards rather than voluntary commitments is the load-bearing word in their ask. The Pentagon's existing AI ethics principles, adopted in 2020, are advisory — and military AI procurement has expanded every year since. Faith leaders arriving at Congress with a demand for legal force are implicitly making the case that the voluntary framework produced the problem they are now trying to solve. Whether Congress treats this as a reputational liability or a legislative opportunity depends on whether the coalition can hold across denominations long enough…