{"id":196,"date":"2008-06-13T20:15:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T00:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:35:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:35:09","slug":"new-chiefs-religion-his-first-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/13\/new-chiefs-religion-his-first-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chief&#8217;s Religion his First Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/jewish-pick-for-air-force-chief-of.html\">Blogs<\/a> and news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/13574\/\">articles<\/a> have highlighted the fact that General Norton Schwartz (official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/library\/biographies\/bio.asp?bioID=7077\">bio<\/a>), the current\u00a0selection to replace outgoing Air Force Chief of Staff General Michael Moseley, is Jewish.\u00a0 They emphasize that he is inheriting a service with &#8220;issues&#8221; involving evangelical Christians.\u00a0 The <em>Forward<\/em> notes that Michael Weinstein, who has sued the Defense Department for alleged Christian bias,\u00a0has already asked to meet the General, even though he has yet to be confirmed by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Regrettably,\u00a0the unnecessary focus\u00a0on religion distracts\u00a0from what many in the Air Force find more interesting: the fact that the new Chief of Staff will be the first non-fighter\/bomber pilot to lead the Air Force in its history.\u00a0 (An official list of all Chiefs of Staff can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil\/PopTopics\/csaf.htm\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogs and news articles have highlighted the fact that General Norton Schwartz (official bio), the current\u00a0selection to replace outgoing Air Force Chief of Staff General Michael Moseley, is Jewish.\u00a0 They emphasize that he is inheriting a service with &#8220;issues&#8221; involving evangelical Christians.\u00a0 The Forward notes that Michael Weinstein, who has sued the Defense Department for alleged Christian bias,\u00a0has already asked [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[39,2,17,10],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}