Chaplain Who Protested in Uniform Found Guilty
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A military jury in Norfolk found a Navy chaplain guilty of disobeying an order by appearing in uniform at a White House protest.
A jury of five officers deliberated for an hour and 20 minutes before deciding Lt. Gordon J. Klingenschmitt disobeyed a superior officer’s order that he could be in uniform if conducting a “bona fide worship service.”
Klingenschmitt contended that his appearance at a March 30 news conference, held at the White House to protest a Navy policy requiring nondenominational prayers outside of religious services, qualified as a worship service.
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