A Marine was recently court-martialed for refusing to remove a Bible verse from
their desk. A United States Marine was convicted at a court-martial for
refusing to remove a Bible verse on her computer. A verse of scripture the
military determined could easily be seen as contrary to good order and discipline.
The verse she had on her desk was from Isaiah 54 17. No weapon that is formed
against thee shall prosper. She represented herself at trial and was
convicted on February 1st of 2014 and a court-martial at Camp Lejeune, North
Carolina. She was found guilty of failing to go to her appointed place of duty,
disrespect toward a superior commissioned officer, and four
specifications of disobeying the lawful order of a non-commissioned officer. Now
she recently lost her federal appeal. They found that the order was not a
substantial burden on her First Amendment rights. They said, we reject the
argument that every interference with a religiously motivated act constitutes a
substantial burden on the exercise of religion, said the US Court of Appeals
for the Armed Forces, the highest military court in a four to one decision.
After the court-martial she was reduced to rank of private as long as you can go
and given a bad conduct discharge and of course she later left the service. See I
thought this was a interesting story being a former Marine myself just makes
you wonder if it was somebody that was of the Islamic faith and they had
something from the Quran on their desk you know with the same outcome have
taken place. So let me know what you think about this in the comments below
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