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Title: High military court will hear case of Marine punished for displaying Bible verse
Source: Washington Times
URL Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news ... e-punished-for-displaying-bib/
Published: Nov 29, 2015
Author: Kellan Howell
Post Date: 2015-12-01 10:30:32 by redleghunter
Ping List: *Religious History and Issues*     Subscribe to *Religious History and Issues*
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Views: 3161
Comments: 24

The highest U.S. military court will hear the case of a Marine who was punished for refusing to remove a Bible verse from her workstation.

In May, 2013 then-Lance Cpl. Monifa Sterling kept a Bible verse on her computer in three places. The verses read "No weapon formed against me shall prosper," a modification of the Isaiah 54:17, according to the Catholic News Agency.

Ms. Sterling's staff sergeant demanded she remove the verse, but Ms. Sterling refused, saying she had the right to express her religious freedom.

The next day Ms. Sterling arrived to find the verses had been ripped down from her station. She put them up again. The cycle repeated until Ms. Sterling was court-martialed on Feb. 1, 2014.

She was convicted of disrespecting a superior commissioned officer, failing to go to an appointed place of duty, and disobeying a lawful order on four separate occasions, The Daily Caller reported.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals also sided against Ms. Sterling, saying significant damage could be caused by forcing military employees to be exposed to a religious quotation, CNA reported.

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How such a situation got to the point of CM and appeals is amazing. Was there not just ONE leader in the Marine's chain of command who could have handled this situation better?Subscribe to *Religious History and Issues*

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http://www.caaflog.com/wp-content/uploads/Sterling-Government-Answer-to-Petition.pdf

Appellee's Answer Supplement to Petition for Grant of Review, Crim App Dkt No 201400150, USCA Dkt No 15-0510-MC, EXCERPTS

At 5:

Nowhere on the Record, during trial on the merits or during litigation concerning the signs, does anything support that Appellant told anyone that the signs were Biblical quotations or otherwise religious.

At 5-6:

The first time the Record supports that Appellant informed anyone the signs had religious significance was on February 1, 2014, during litigation of Appellant's Motion as to the lawfulness of the May 2013 order to remove the signs. (R. 266) Nothing in the Record supports that Appellant told anyone about the signs' religious nature until nine months after she refused to remove the signs.

At 14:

Appellant never testified, and nothing in the Record supports, that Appellant informed anyone that the signs were religious. Nothing in the Record supports that anyone but Appellant knew the signs were religious. Nor does anything in the Record support that Appellant sought religious accommodation for the signs in accordance with the requirements of the Department of Defense Instruction.

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E. The Department of Defense requires servicemembers to provide notice of and to request accommodation of religious practices prior to disobeying orders or refusing to comply with military duties.

At the time Appellant placed the signs in her shared workspace, a Department of Defense Instruction governed how to request exceptions to military duties based on religion, “Accommodation of Religious Practices Within the Military Services.” DoDI 1300.17 (Feb. 10, 2009). The Instruction stated that “The Department of Defense places a high value on the rights of members of the Military Services to observe the tenets of their respective religions.” Id. The Instruction stated that “It is DoD policy that requests for religious accommodation should be approved when accommodation would not adversely affect mission accomplishment, including military readiness, unit cohesion, good order, discipline, or any other military requirement.” Id. The Enclosure to the Instruction prescribed procedures for military commanders to approve requests by servicemembers for special accommodations based on a servicemembers’ religious practices. Id.

While Appellant’s trial was ongoing and prior to the Article 39(a), UCMJ, session to litigate Appellant’s Motion, the Department of Defense updated the Instruction to explicitly include reference to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). DoDI 1300.17 (Jan. 22, 2014). The new Instruction, which Appellant provided as an appellate exhibit to the Military Judge, explicitly quoted the text of RFRA, but otherwise continued to place the burden on servicemembers to make specific requests for religious accommodation through their chain of command. Id.; (Appellate Ex. XXXVI).

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Hole is even deeper.

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