Tenth Circuit Affirms Punishment of Christian Police Officer Who Objected to Order Mandating Attendance at Islamic Event

Photo Credit: Pamela GellerPreviously at Atlas, I reported on the courageous police captain, Paul Fields, who was initially disciplined for refusing to require his subordinates to attend an event at a Muslim Brotherhood mosque in Tulsa. So he filed a federal suit against the Tulsa Police Department, asking for $1 in damages on each of two claims. I love him.

…Memos indicate that attendance was initially voluntary. However, Deputy Chief Daryl Webster ordered each patrol division to send six officers and three supervisors, when no one signed up.

Now, in a sharia-compliant decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has ruled that his Constitutional rights were not violated. Robert Muise of the American Freedom Law Center, who, along with David Yerushalmi, has represented me in so many of our free speech cases (and won precedent-setting decisions), says: “The court is wrong, and we intend to seek full court review of this patently erroneous decision.” Good. This is unconscionable.

“Tenth Circuit Affirms Punishment of Christian Police Officer Who Objected to Order Mandating Attendance at Islamic Event,” American Freedom Law Center, May 23, 2014:

Denver, Colorado (May 23, 2014) — Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that the City of Tulsa and two of its senior police officials, Chief of Police Chuck Jordan and Deputy Chief of Police Daryl Webster, did not violate the constitutional rights of Captain Paul Fields, a Tulsa Police officer who was summarily punished for objecting on religious grounds to an order mandating attendance at an Islamic proselytizing event held at a local mosque.

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