{"id":14044,"date":"2011-11-10T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14044"},"modified":"2011-11-09T18:19:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T23:19:42","slug":"former-navy-chaplain-klingenschmitt-sues-for-reinstatement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/former-navy-chaplain-klingenschmitt-sues-for-reinstatement\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Navy Chaplain Klingenschmitt Sues for Reinstatement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/prayinjesusname.org\/uploads\/File\/againstgoliath\/KlingenschmittVsUSAlawsuitNov11.pdf\">filed a suit<\/a> in the US Court of Federal Claims seeking\u00a0reinstatement and back pay or access to retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Klingenschmitt was <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/01\/navy-chaplain-to-be-dismissed\/\">discharged in 2007<\/a> after a controversial couple of years largely revolving around his insistence on ending prayers &#8220;in Jesus&#8217; name.&#8221;\u00a0 He has been filing <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/18\/navy-chaplain-loses-appeal\/\">appeals<\/a> ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Klingenschmitt&#8217;s\u00a0timeline in the filing\u00a0indicates <!--more-->he was never without an ecclesiastical endorsement, which was publicly the basis for his administrative separation from the Navy.\u00a0 (Chaplains are required to have such an endorsement and are discharged if they do not retain one.)<\/p>\n<p>Klingenschmitt is currently a defendant as well , as he is being <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/06\/weinstein-sues-chaplain-over-prayers\/\">sued by Michael and Bonnie Weinstein<\/a> over his &#8220;imprecatory prayers&#8221; (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/weinstein-v-ammerman-continued\/\">Weinstein v Ammerman<\/a><\/em>).\u00a0 That case isn&#8217;t scheduled to be heard until April 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/controversial-navy-chaplain-sues-for.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt has\u00a0filed a suit in the US Court of Federal Claims seeking\u00a0reinstatement and back pay or access to retirement. Klingenschmitt was discharged in 2007 after a controversial couple of years largely revolving around his insistence on ending prayers &#8220;in Jesus&#8217; name.&#8221;\u00a0 He has been filing appeals ever since. Notably, Klingenschmitt&#8217;s\u00a0timeline in the filing\u00a0indicates<\/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":[5284,82,276,85,2,36,11,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-14044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chaplain","tag-constitution","tag-gordon-klingenschmitt","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14044","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=14044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}