{"id":17212,"date":"2012-04-12T00:17:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17212"},"modified":"2012-04-12T00:17:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:17:52","slug":"navy-chaplains-can-continue-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/navy-chaplains-can-continue-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Chaplains can Continue Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what is probably the least reported, longest running lawsuit regarding religion and the US military, a group of chaplains has been told they can proceed with some, but not all, of their claims against the Navy.<\/p>\n<p>A slightly changing group of chaplains, chaplain agencies, and churches <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/29\/navy-chaplains-allege-discrimination\/\">sued more than 20 years ago<\/a> alleging the Navy discriminates against <!--more-->non-liturgical denominations in the chaplaincy.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/non-liturgical-navy-chaplains-can-move.html\">summarized at the Religion Clause<\/a>, the chaplains&#8217; Establishment Clause claims were denied, but &#8220;various challenges to the Navy&#8217;s chaplaincy accession, retention, promotion and selective early retirement process, as well as challenges to alleged prejudice in the disciplinary system&#8221; were allowed to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is probably the least reported, longest running lawsuit regarding religion and the US military, a group of chaplains has been told they can proceed with some, but not all, of their claims against the Navy. A slightly changing group of chaplains, chaplain agencies, and churches sued more than 20 years ago alleging the Navy discriminates against<\/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":[5284,2,36,10,171],"class_list":["post-17212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17212","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=17212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}