{"id":118,"date":"2007-08-31T07:52:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:17:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:17:03","slug":"another-pentagon-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/another-pentagon-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Pentagon Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As previously reported on the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/christian-evangelists-permitted-to.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>, TruthOut is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/083007A.shtml\">reporting<\/a> that Weinstein&#8217;s MRFF is again complaining about an outside Christian organization having access to the Pentagon.\u00a0 This time it was David Kistler&#8217;s HOPE ministries.<\/p>\n<p>The article makes it unclear whether it is the <em>theology<\/em> that is the issue (since much of the article is a mockery of Kistler&#8217;s views) or the fact it was a religious organization.<\/p>\n<p>While the writer makes it appear that it is &#8220;intuitively obvious&#8221; that the Pentagon again violated the &#8216;Constitutional separation of church and state,&#8217; that is not the case.\u00a0 Chaplains routinely host outside visitors of varied religious persuasions for the spiritual benefit of their servicemen, which is their legal duty.<\/p>\n<p>While Weinstein may disagree, the Constitution and the courts have supported the religious influence of the chaplaincy and its programs in the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously reported on the Religion Clause, TruthOut is reporting that Weinstein&#8217;s MRFF is again complaining about an outside Christian organization having access to the Pentagon.\u00a0 This time it was David Kistler&#8217;s HOPE ministries. The article makes it unclear whether it is the theology that is the issue (since much of the article is a mockery of Kistler&#8217;s views) or [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4,82,85,2,5218,7,63,10],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-pentagon","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}