{"id":164,"date":"2008-03-08T22:36:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T02:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:16:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:16:59","slug":"usna-chapel-ceremony-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/usna-chapel-ceremony-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"USNA Chapel Ceremony Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a week after the initial melee, the New York Times picked up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/08\/us\/08chapel.html?ei=5087&#038;em=&#038;en=2935a384bd0887e0&#038;ex=1205125200&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;adxnnlx=1205040172-YGFnkpsnt2cXGeVdi4OayA\">story<\/a> on the Naval Academy chapel practice of dipping the US flag at the altar (previously noted <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=160\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing significantly new in the article, though it\u00a0does seem to indicate that the initial hysteria over the incident (generated primarily by\u00a0Weinstein&#8217;s Military Religious Freedom Foundation)\u00a0was misplaced.\u00a0 (For example, no one\u00a0&#8220;disobeyed a direct order.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, columnists are quick to reference the US flag code, which says the flag should never be dipped.\u00a0 However, the US flag code is a guide, not a punitive regulation.\u00a0 Previous attempts to make it punitive were struck down by the Supreme Court as unConstitutional.\u00a0 Thus, while someone may disagree with the practice, it is not prohibited.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">NYT reference courtesy of\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/naval-academys-dipping-of-flag-in.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>, and recently updated on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancealert.org\/2008\/03\/10\/clashing-over-church-ritual-and-flag-protocol-at-the-naval-academy-chapel\/\">ADF<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a week after the initial melee, the New York Times picked up the story on the Naval Academy chapel practice of dipping the US flag at the altar (previously noted here). There is nothing significantly new in the article, though it\u00a0does seem to indicate that the initial hysteria over the incident (generated primarily by\u00a0Weinstein&#8217;s Military Religious Freedom Foundation)\u00a0was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[38,2,5218,7,10],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","category-military-academies","tag-chapel","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}