{"id":20103,"date":"2012-11-19T03:08:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T06:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20103"},"modified":"2012-11-19T03:08:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T06:08:08","slug":"court-overturns-decision-chaplains-continue-lawsuit-against-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/court-overturns-decision-chaplains-continue-lawsuit-against-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Overturns Decision, Chaplains Continue Lawsuit against Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the least-reported military religious lawsuits-that-never-ends, <em>In re Navy Chaplaincy <\/em>(DC Cir., Nov. 2, 2012), a US Court of Appeals has reversed a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/navy-chaplains-can-continue-lawsuit\/\">lower court ruling<\/a> and said Navy Chaplains <em>do <\/em>have standing to continue their decades-old\u00a0lawsuit against the Navy.<\/p>\n<p>The long-running case centers on the allegation the Navy Chaplaincy discriminated against non-liturgical faith groups, resulting in favorable treatment of certain religious beliefs that affected promotion rates and the proportion of chaplains in the US Navy.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/dc-circuit-non-liturgical-protestant.html\">the Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the least-reported military religious lawsuits-that-never-ends, In re Navy Chaplaincy (DC Cir., Nov. 2, 2012), a US Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court ruling and said Navy Chaplains do have standing to continue their decades-old\u00a0lawsuit against the Navy. The long-running case centers on the allegation the Navy Chaplaincy discriminated against non-liturgical faith groups, resulting in favorable [&#8230;]<\/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":[5284,2,36,10,171],"class_list":["post-20103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20103","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=20103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}