{"id":186,"date":"2008-05-15T18:25:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T22:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:35:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:35:51","slug":"court-grants-objector-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/court-grants-objector-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Grants Objector Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/may\/14\/usa.iran\">ruled<\/a> that the Army must grant conscientious objector status to an Alaska-based soldier whose application was previously denied.\u00a0 Historically, the Army has insisted that a CO object to <em>all<\/em> war, not just &#8220;this&#8221; war, and\u00a0the soldier&#8217;s previous comments seemed to indicate that he looked forward to combat.\u00a0 The soldier indicated that his objection developed as a result of what he saw\u00a0in Iraq.\u00a0 The judge did concede that the military had a legitimate concern on the &#8220;timing&#8221; of the CO application, but that it could not deny it based solely on that cause.<\/p>\n<p>The text of the ruling can be seen at the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/court-concludes-paratrooper-is-entitled.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court has ruled that the Army must grant conscientious objector status to an Alaska-based soldier whose application was previously denied.\u00a0 Historically, the Army has insisted that a CO object to all war, not just &#8220;this&#8221; war, and\u00a0the soldier&#8217;s previous comments seemed to indicate that he looked forward to combat.\u00a0 The soldier indicated that his objection developed as a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[4,46,2,10],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","tag-churchandstate","tag-conscientious-objector","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}