I applaud her courage, however she made several mistakes:
Disobeying a direct order (apparently several times). The computer belongs to the military and therefore her superiors have a right to tell her what can and can’t have on their computer.
She represented herself against a JAG prosecutor.
Bingo on all points. I sympathize with her motives, but she handled this really badly. And bottom line... THE COMPUTER WAS NOT HERS. That said this looks like there is more to this than what has been reported. I did a little stint with JAG back in the early 90’s while recovering from a broken arm and learned a lot about military justice.
This would be Article 15 material 99% of the time. My guess is that her command made the decision to get rid of her and this was as good a pretext as any. I won’t speculate on the reasons. I have seen it done for both good reasons and bad. Her command may have a hard core case of anti-Christian PCitis. Or she may have been the sort of person who doesn’t play and get along well with others. I have seen that too, including some Christians who just did not grasp that, yes, there are boundaries.
But clearly there is a lot more to this than what made it into print.
She will win her appeal for two reasons. Others were permitted to write and display secular stuff and the lower court sh1t the bad on the RFRA holding. You heard it here first. No complaints from anybody but the NCOIC who pursued this garbage and issued an unlawful order discriminating against the religious versus the secular. Now that she has a good lawyer her discharge will be upgraded and she might even walk with some cash.
Lawful order. Direct orders come from field grade officers, not NCO's.