{"id":14602,"date":"2011-12-22T02:12:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T05:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14602"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:14:18","slug":"perkins-king-sound-warning-on-hostility-toward-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/22\/perkins-king-sound-warning-on-hostility-toward-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Perkins, King Sound Warning on Hostility Toward Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joining the theme of Rick Perry’s statements that President Obama had a “war on religion,”<\/a> Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council called the Obama administration “hostile to Christianity<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

“You can’t judge what’s in somebody’s heart or their administration, but you can judge them by the fruits of their labors,” Perkins said. “The fruit of this administration shows it is hostile to Christianity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was referring to the Walter Reed policy banning religious items (specifically, Bibles)<\/a> within the US military medical facility.\u00a0 By contrast, the Washington Times <\/em>noted the government goes the extra mile to make sure detainees at Guantanamo have access to the Koran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We shouldn\u2019t really be surprised when a bureaucrat tries to bar Bibles in a U.S. military stateside hospital while other bureaucrats make sure terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, get copies of the Koran.<\/p>\n

You almost have to feel sorry for poor Col. [C.W] Callahan, [Walter Reed\u2019s Chief of Staff,] who is part of the new metrosexual military, which values \u201cdiversity\u201d more than combat readiness, so long as it doesn\u2019t include Christianity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the same topic, US Representative Steve King (R-IA) implied the necessity of a proactive, rather than a passive, response to those who would restrict religious freedom (or attack Christianity) in the military:<\/p>\n

King said that the only way to prevent future attacks on American freedoms was to reverse the process in the first place…<\/p>\n

“Any time we weigh in on the side of goodness, faith and justice, we make the world a better place,” he said. “The greater the objection is, the less likely they are to make another try.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Further, he said an offense, not just a defense, may be required:<\/p>\n

“Whatever kind of militant atheist-ism [sic<\/em>] might bring about a rule like this, it isn’t good enough just to stop the rule,” he states. “It’s also important that we move back into the affirmative. We go on offense and take something back from the people who come after the things that we believe.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) similarly noted the need to root out the cause of the problem that generated the questionable policy<\/p>\n

because what they will always use is the excuse du jour [that] somebody complained because someone was proselytizing them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joining the theme of Rick Perry’s statements that President Obama had a “war on religion,” Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council called the Obama administration “hostile to Christianity.” “You can’t judge what’s in somebody’s heart or their administration, but you can judge them by the fruits of their labors,” Perkins said. “The fruit of this administration shows it is […]<\/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":[20,23,96,2562,1146,905,240,2567,590,2,5218,7,591,10,171,2549,239,1835],"class_list":["post-14602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-atheism","tag-bible","tag-christian","tag-eucharist","tag-family-research-council","tag-forbes","tag-frc","tag-guantanamo","tag-koran","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-quran","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-steve-king","tag-tony-perkins","tag-walter-reed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602","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=14602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}