{"id":17572,"date":"2012-05-02T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17572"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:34:07","slug":"congressman-introduces-military-religious-freedom-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/congressman-introduces-military-religious-freedom-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Introduces Military Religious Freedom Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Rep Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) introduced the Military Religious Freedom Act (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/112\/hr3828\">HR 3828<\/a>), which aims to prevent chaplains and other troops from being &#8220;penalized&#8221; for failing to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Politics\/Default.aspx?id=1582116\">homosexuals in the military<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It would exempt chaplains from functions that violate their <!--more-->religious principles, prohibit punishment of troops for expressing their religious or moral beliefs about homosexuality, and bar the use of military facilities for same-sex &#8220;weddings&#8221; or civil unions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bill currently has 48 cosponsors and was referred to committee in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancealert.org\/2012\/04\/23\/bill-would-protect-conscience-rights-enforce-doma\/\">ADF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Rep Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) introduced the Military Religious Freedom Act (HR 3828), which aims to prevent chaplains and other troops from being &#8220;penalized&#8221; for failing to support homosexuals in the military. It would exempt chaplains from functions that violate their<\/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":[219,442,3218,2,3217,10,171,1908],"class_list":["post-17572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-hr-3828","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-act","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-tim-huelskamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17572","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=17572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}