{"id":32155,"date":"2015-06-23T00:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T03:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=32155"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:01:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:01:37","slug":"attorneys-general-support-marine-court-martialed-over-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/attorneys-general-support-marine-court-martialed-over-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorneys General Support Marine Court-Martialed over Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five US states have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/business\/tulsabusiness\/business_news\/legal\/state-files-brief-in-support-of-marine-veteran-s-religious\/article_a4485576-1268-593b-9972-26faa3c3a553.html\">filed a brief in support<\/a> of court-martialed US Marine <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/05\/27\/bible-quote-court-martialed-marine-appeals\/\">Monifa Sterling<\/a>, whose conviction, in part, included the Court&#8217;s conclusion that she was not permitted to put Bible verses on her desk. As announced by Oklahoma State Attorney General Scott Pruitt, the other states include Nevada, Arizona, South Carolina, and West Virginia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The attorney general said it would be a sad irony if service men and women were not afforded the same liberties for which they risk their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have filed this brief supporting Ms. Sterling\u2019s appeal because her case could impact the religious freedom of Oklahomans serving in the military,\u201d Pruitt said. \u201cOklahoma is keenly interested in the outcome of this case and its interpretation of federal law protecting religious liberty.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pruitt is actually echoing a prior Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, who similarly encouraged US troops to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2014\/12\/29\/secdef-exercise-the-freedoms-you-protect-video\/\">exercise the rights they are serving to protect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/oklahoma-ag-weighs-in-on-marine-s-court-martial-over-bible-verses-1.352579\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five US states have filed a brief in support of court-martialed US Marine Monifa Sterling, whose conviction, in part, included the Court&#8217;s conclusion that she was not permitted to put Bible verses on her desk. As announced by Oklahoma State Attorney General Scott Pruitt, the other states include Nevada, Arizona, South Carolina, and West Virginia. The attorney general said it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[792,3856,2,5127,606,2738,17,10,171,5207,2320,5208],"class_list":["post-32155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-arizona","tag-chuck-hagel","tag-military","tag-monifa-sterling","tag-nevada","tag-oklahoma","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-scott-pruitt","tag-south-carolina","tag-west-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}