{"id":60038,"date":"2015-05-27T12:31:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T16:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60038"},"modified":"2015-05-27T12:44:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T16:44:50","slug":"lance-corporal-monifa-sterling-discharged-for-bible-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60038","title":{"rendered":"Lance Corporal Monifa Sterling; discharged for Bible verse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Monifa<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I’ve been getting this story<\/a> for a few days. It’s about Monifa Sterling a former lance corporal in the Marines who had a Bibical phrase posted in her workspace. When told to take it down, she refused;<\/p>\n

The plight of Lance Corporal Monifa Sterling seems unbelievable \u2013 a member of the Armed Forces criminally prosecuted for displaying a slightly altered passage of Scripture from the Old Testament: \u201cNo weapon formed against me shall prosper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sterling, who represented herself at trial, was convicted February 1, 2014 in a court-martial at Camp Lejune, North Carolina after she refused to obey orders from a staff sergeant to remove the Bible verses from her desk.<\/p>\n

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 noncommissioned officer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I sympathize with the young lance corporal, and I doubt this would have reached this level of discipline under other similar circumstances, the way I was always taught to deal with circumstances in the military with which I disagreed is to do what you’re told and then complain about it to the proper military authorities. It doesn’t look like Sterling did that. She was charged with disrespect and disobeying orders. That’s not how you get the military judge on your side in a hearing or a court martial.<\/p>\n

She was right until she was wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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