{"id":18563,"date":"2012-07-16T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18563"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:13:12","slug":"army-to-end-nascar-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/16\/army-to-end-nascar-sponsorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Army to End NASCAR Sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army has announced it will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2012\/07\/ap-army-nascar-terminating-sponsorship-071012\/\">end its decade-long NASCAR sponsorship<\/a> after this year.\u00a0 The move has been praised by Betty McCollum (D-Minn), who has put forward amendments <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/military-nascar-sponsorships-on-chopping-block-again\/\">for at least two years<\/a> attempting to strip the military&#8217;s ability to sponsor professional sports.\u00a0 For its part, the military generally considers such exposure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/83385\/Army_to_discontinue_NASCAR_sponsorship\/\">good for recruiting<\/a>.\u00a0 For the record, the Army will still be sponsoring a car in the National Hot Rod Association.<\/p>\n<p>In his tradition of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/01\/weinstein-claims-credit-for-bracd-unit\/\">revising history<\/a>, Michael Weinstein will likely claim this as a victory in his organization&#8217;s efforts to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/mrff-seeks-cause-to-litigate-agitate-and-ice-cream\/\">keep religious faith out of the military<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; not that Weinstein&#8217;s position has ever <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/military-sponsors-nascar-and-religious-complaint\/\">been consistent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army has announced it will end its decade-long NASCAR sponsorship after this year.\u00a0 The move has been praised by Betty McCollum (D-Minn), who has put forward amendments for at least two years attempting to strip the military&#8217;s ability to sponsor professional sports.\u00a0 For its part, the military generally considers such exposure good for recruiting.\u00a0 For the record, the [&#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-18563","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\/18563","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=18563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}