United States v. Nugent — Opinion of the Court
“ It is not called upon to devise a just procedure; merely to apply one. Considering the traditionally high respect that dissent, and particularly religous dissent, has enjoyed in our view of a free society, this Court ought not to reject a construction of congressional language which assures justice in cases where the sincerity of another's religious conviction is at stake and where prison may be the alternative to an abandonment of conscience. ”
