{"id":12839,"date":"2011-08-31T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=12839"},"modified":"2013-10-14T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T19:45:15","slug":"retired-chaplain-says-g-o-d-is-bigger-than-d-o-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/31\/retired-chaplain-says-g-o-d-is-bigger-than-d-o-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Chaplain Says &#8220;G-O-D is Bigger than D-O-D&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (Col) Ron Crews (US Army, Retired) is heading up the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/03\/chaplains-consider-dadt-repeal-loss-of-doma\/\">Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a group that wants to protect evangelical chaplains from the dangers created by the government&#8217;s decision to force open homosexual behavior on the armed forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Security\/Default.aspx?id=1418696\">recently noted<\/a> that some Chaplain endorsers have indicated they will not only endorse homosexual Chaplains, but they already <em>have<\/em> homosexual Chaplains who <!--more-->will &#8220;come out&#8221; in September.<\/p>\n<p>While Crews is vocally defending the religious liberty of Chaplains, he is encouraging Chaplains to &#8220;stay the course:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I remind our chaplains that &#8212; number one &#8212; promotions come from God; and secondly, that G-O-D is bigger than D-O-D and that God can do what he wants with a chaplain who is fully committed and dedicated to him,&#8221; Crews shares. &#8220;And &#8230; we&#8217;re not there for the promotions; we&#8217;re there to serve.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (Col) Ron Crews (US Army, Retired) is heading up the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, a group that wants to protect evangelical chaplains from the dangers created by the government&#8217;s decision to force open homosexual behavior on the armed forces. He recently noted that some Chaplain endorsers have indicated they will not only endorse homosexual Chaplains, but they already [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[5284,1998,219,442,2,10,171,1997],"class_list":["post-12839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","category-government-and-religion","tag-chaplain","tag-chaplain-alliance-for-religious-liberty","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-ron-crews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839","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=12839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}