{"id":1532,"date":"2009-10-23T00:30:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T07:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2009-11-20T06:01:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T14:01:11","slug":"can-military-officers-espouse-religious-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/can-military-officers-espouse-religious-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Military Officers Espouse Religious Ideology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Understandably, it is sometimes difficult to accurately convey the complicated relationships that military members have with the government and religion.\u00a0 Sometimes, people with the best intentions misstate the proper role of\u00a0military members; sometimes, people do so authoritatively&#8211;and ignorantly.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a well-publicized civilian author said this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a uniformed officer of the US military makes derogatory remarks about Islam, he&#8217;s violating [his] oath and expressing contempt of the First Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(For context,\u00a0the\u00a0&#8220;uniformed officer&#8221; (who wasn&#8217;t actually <em>in<\/em> uniform at the time) was a Chaplain.)<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree?<\/p>\n<p>More to follow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: See <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/military-officers-and-religious-ideology\/\">the discussion on this question here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understandably, it is sometimes difficult to accurately convey the complicated relationships that military members have with the government and religion.\u00a0 Sometimes, people with the best intentions misstate the proper role of\u00a0military members; sometimes, people do so authoritatively&#8211;and ignorantly. Recently, a well-publicized civilian author said this: When a uniformed officer of the US military makes derogatory remarks about Islam, he&#8217;s violating [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[4,19,2,45,17,10],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","tag-churchandstate","tag-government","tag-military","tag-politics","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","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=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}