{"id":13718,"date":"2011-10-24T02:06:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T07:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13718"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:14:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:14:31","slug":"update-atheist-soldier-refuses-to-bow-head-at-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/update-atheist-soldier-refuses-to-bow-head-at-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Atheist Soldier Refuses to Bow Head at Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CNN.com blog that covered the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/20\/atheist-soldier-refuses-to-bow-head-at-graduation\/\">atheist Soldier refusing to lower his head<\/a> during a training graduation prayer <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/19\/military-backs-off-threat-to-pull-atheist-from-ceremony\/\">updated their post<\/a> with input from Fort Jackson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fort Jackson officials said Friday that an atheist soldier was asked to lower their head during a prayer portion of a graduation ceremony rehearsal, but then decided it was ok for the soldier to stand at Attention. [<em>sic<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As originally thought, the desire for a <!--more-->similar physical stance within the formation was a quest on the NCOs&#8217; part to have &#8220;uniformity&#8221; within the formation.\u00a0 It did not reflect any US military institutional policy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is not the command\u2019s policy to force anyone to bow their heads and clasp their hands to pray,\u201d said [Patrick Jones, a Fort Jackson Public Affairs Officer]. \u201cThe Army fully recognizes all faiths or lack there of\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was no mention of the Soldier&#8217;s public contention the prayer during the ceremony violated the Constitution, nor his conduct with regard to his opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNN.com blog that covered the atheist Soldier refusing to lower his head during a training graduation prayer updated their post with input from Fort Jackson: Fort Jackson officials said Friday that an atheist soldier was asked to lower their head during a prayer portion of a graduation ceremony rehearsal, but then decided it was ok for the soldier to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,20,4,82,434,85,2,5218,7,11,10,171],"class_list":["post-13718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-atheism","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-fort-jackson","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-prayer","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718","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=13718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}