{"id":18706,"date":"2012-07-27T00:54:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T03:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18706"},"modified":"2012-08-26T13:03:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T16:03:26","slug":"camp-pendleton-cross-prompts-wider-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/27\/camp-pendleton-cross-prompts-wider-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Pendleton Cross Prompts Wider Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

The demand by Jason Torpy, speaking for the one-man Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers,\u00a0that the US Marine Corps remove its “Christian privilege” (the crosses on Camp Pendleton<\/a>‘s ridge on Camp Horno) has spurred a “wider review” of similar memorials around the world<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Capt. Greg Wolf at the Pentagon headquarters of the Marine Corps said Thursday that an “operational planning team” is conducting the review to help develop a policy on how such memorials should be treated.<\/p>\n

“They are looking at memorials across all the bases,” Wolf said, in response to a question from the North County Times about why there has been no decision on the Pendleton complaint, which was lodged six months ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That may actually bode well for the memorial.\u00a0 As noted previously, crosses traditionally adorn US military memorials around the world — including, for example, the US Marine Corps memorial erected after the battle for Tarawa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the meantime,\u00a0Torpy has made only the small demands that he be consulted by the Marines and that the crosses be torn down while the decision is being made.<\/p>\n

He seems to have an inflated view of his own importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The demand by Jason Torpy, speaking for the one-man Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers,\u00a0that the US Marine Corps remove its “Christian privilege” (the crosses on Camp Pendleton‘s ridge on Camp Horno) has spurred a “wider review” of similar memorials around the world: Capt. Greg Wolf at the Pentagon headquarters of the Marine Corps said Thursday that an “operational planning […]<\/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":[20,2469,891,162,3423,253,149,2,17,10,171,2480,40],"class_list":["post-18706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-atheism","tag-camp-horno","tag-camp-pendleton","tag-cross","tag-greg-wolf","tag-jason-torpy","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-tarawa","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706","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=18706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}