{"id":18335,"date":"2012-07-06T01:37:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T04:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18335"},"modified":"2012-07-06T01:37:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T04:37:16","slug":"army-officer-violates-orders-during-military-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/06\/army-officer-violates-orders-during-military-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Officer Violates Orders During Military Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or so he <\/em>says:<\/p>\n

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According to his public statements<\/a>, US Army Captain Miles Cone was in “violation of\u00a0orders from a superior officer” during the benediction at his June 8 graduation from his three year residency in Advanced Dental Education.\u00a0 Presumably, the order was something along the lines of “let us pray” and came from a chaplain.<\/p>\n

While Capt Cone might like to play the martyr, it turns out he’s no hero.\u00a0 While military chaplains have rank as officers, no statement from them — or any other military officer — inviting a religious or spiritual act could ever be remotely construed as a lawful order.\u00a0 (As part of the medical corps, Cone likewise has no command authority.)\u00a0 Prayer in ceremonial settings is a longstanding military tradition and welcome by the vast majority of those present.\u00a0 It is not a violation of the Constitution, despite Capt Cone’s insinuation.<\/p>\n

Those who do not wish to participate are in no way obligated to do so — no matter what <\/em>their religious beliefs.\u00a0 Every chaplain — and every defender of religious freedom — would defend their right to not<\/em> participate in what may be considered religious acts.\u00a0 That does not mean one cannot respect the ability of others <\/em>to participate — which, despite his apparent vocalized angst, Cone seems to have respectfully done.\u00a0 Chip, meet shoulder.<\/p>\n

For the record, there are far worse potential examples of what may seem to be forced religious acts<\/a>.\u00a0 Standing and listening to others pray hardly rates.<\/p>\n

Cone isn’t “in defense of the First Amendment” any more than his fellow officers are in “violation” of the First Amendment.\u00a0\u00a0Cone’s\u00a0faux persecution might make for interesting conversations while his subordinate Soldiers are sitting in the dental chair, but little else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or so he says: According to his public statements, US Army Captain Miles Cone was in “violation of\u00a0orders from a superior officer” during the benediction at his June 8 graduation from<\/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":[88,20,3367,5284,82,3366,330,3365,2,2239,11,10,171],"class_list":["post-18335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-atheism","tag-benediction","tag-chaplain","tag-constitution","tag-dentist","tag-graduation","tag-miles-cone","tag-military","tag-orders","tag-prayer","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335","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=18335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}