{"id":17849,"date":"2012-05-22T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17849"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:13:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:13:18","slug":"military-nascar-sponsorships-on-chopping-block-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/military-nascar-sponsorships-on-chopping-block-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Military NASCAR Sponsorships on Chopping Block Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what seems to be an <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/rep-to-ban-military-nascar-sponsorships-mrff-victory\/\">annual event<\/a>, another effort has been made in Congress to ban the Defense Department&#8217;s ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2012\/05\/gannett-military-attempt-to-quash-nascar-sponsorships-051712\/\">sponsor teams or players in professional sporting events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The $608 billion defense bill that passed the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday includes an amendment to prohibit Pentagon spending on NASCAR, professional fishing and professional wrestling events.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>US Rep Betty McCollum (D-Minn) proposed the <!--more-->legislation last year, and claimed this year it would save $80 million.\u00a0 The Defense Department generally defends such efforts in terms of recruiting, not necessarily direct monetary return.<\/p>\n<p>As noted previously, Michael Weinstein would likely claim credit (revisionist, as <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/01\/weinstein-claims-credit-for-bracd-unit\/\">has been his habit<\/a>) for the result.\u00a0 NASCAR is evidence of military <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/mrff-seeks-cause-to-litigate-agitate-and-ice-cream\/\">fundamentalist Christianity trying to take over the world<\/a>, after all.\u00a0 Them <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/military-sponsors-nascar-and-religious-complaint\/\">and the Native Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what seems to be an annual event, another effort has been made in Congress to ban the Defense Department&#8217;s ability to sponsor teams or players in professional sporting events. The $608 billion defense bill that passed the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday includes an amendment to prohibit Pentagon spending on NASCAR, professional fishing and professional wrestling events. US Rep [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1463,78,1909,85,2,5218,7,388,10,171],"class_list":["post-17849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-betty-mccollum","tag-congress","tag-defense-appropriations-bill","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-nascar","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17849","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=17849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}