{"id":41004,"date":"2017-06-06T00:15:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T03:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=41004"},"modified":"2017-06-07T23:30:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T02:30:27","slug":"supreme-court-declines-to-hear-monifa-sterling-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/06\/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-monifa-sterling-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Declines to Hear Monifa Sterling Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disgraced former Marine LCpl Monifa Sterling’s appeal to the US Supreme Court has been denied<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After being court-martialed<\/a> on an array of specifications, Sterling had teamed with the First Liberty Institute to appeal a charge related to her posting of Bible verses at her desk. The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces had denied her appeal<\/a> — with a dissent.\u00a0 Her appeal to the Supreme Court was the final step.<\/p>\n

Michael “Mikey” Weinstein was giddy, awkwardly managing to claim this constituted a win for “religious freedom.”<\/p>\n

Even more awkwardly, Weinstein was taken to task by his own supporters for announcing that the denial of cert by the Supreme Court had been “unanimous.” The truth<\/strong> is that no one<\/strong> knows how the individual justices decided on that request for cert. Weinstein was so intent on making a sensational, dramatic, adjective-filled claim that he, yet again, said something that wasn’t true — and this time even ardent supporters called him out on it, saying it was “irresponsible” as a lawyer to make that claim.<\/p>\n

Stung, Weinstein quietly revised the MRFF release, and his critical supporters hid their statements, as well.<\/p>\n

They’ll forgive Weinstein that transgression and continue to support him. If they stood back with some intellectual integrity, however, they might begin to wonder how they could trust a man who so easily — and so repeatedly — stretches or outright contradicts the truth. Worse yet, even with the poor reputation of Mikey Weinstein’s integrity, he still calls on people to ‘trust him’ when he makes other, similar-sounding sensational claims.<\/p>\n

Sterling’s case is done<\/a>. Her supporters are concerned for the precedent it could set in the military’s ability to judge the relative worth of religious tenets. How that may play out in the future remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

As for Weinstein, it remains to be seen how many times he can lie before even his supporters start to realize he is consistently<\/em> untrustworthy — and then begin to treat him with\u00a0skepticism rather than “faith.”<\/p>\n

Also at Military.com<\/a> and now at OneNewsNow<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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