The U.S. Coast Guard is unduly burdening the rights of a Coast Guard veteran by dragging its feet on a religious accommodation request over elusive transgender policies, according to an attorney representing a prospective Coastie who takes opposition.
Jonathan Sanders was honorably discharged from the Coast Guard in 2009 after eight years of service. In 2023, as the Coast Guard reeled from recruiting and retention lows at the behest of the now-rescinded COVID-19 shot mandate and the implementation of woke policies, Sanders decided to serve his nation again in uniform.
He met with recruiters and was on track to return to service when a crashing wave of uncertainty about his future overcame him. Gender policies had changed over the years, and the Coast Guard had now endorsed transgenderism—something Sanders took a moral and scientific objection to due to his sincerely held religious convictions.
“Mr. Sanders had conscience issues with calling someone of one biological sex by the pronoun of the other biological sex,” said Sanders’ attorney, Associate Professor Antony Kolenc, a retired Air Force JAG with over 21 years of service, who now directs the Veterans and Servicemembers Law Clinic (VSLC) at Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida.
Sanders was also reluctant to bunk or shower with someone of the opposite biological sex for moral reasons. After bringing this to the attention of recruiters, they simply directed him to the transgender policy of the Coast Guard with the expectation that he would abide by it. […]
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