{"id":203,"date":"2008-06-30T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:35:07","slug":"report-anti-christian-discrimination-in-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/30\/report-anti-christian-discrimination-in-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Anti-Christian Discrimination in VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of years, there have been\u00a0a few complaints that the military, government, and the VA have been evangelizing their members.\u00a0 These complaints have occasionally led to controversial responses, but the\u00a0reaction rarely generates the headlines of the first complaint.\u00a0 In a fairly unusual turn of events, a former Chaplain for the Veterans&#8217; Administration is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Politics\/Default.aspx?id=155550\">claiming<\/a> that those actions, far from encouraging &#8220;religious freedom,&#8221; are in fact discriminating against Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Fayetteville VA hospital &#8220;neutralized&#8221; its chapel by removing Christian symbols, which included covering the stained glass windows with blinds and sawing the crosses off the back of the chairs.\u00a0 The VA Chaplain, Archie Barringer, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/article?id=287694\">asked<\/a> to retire after he protested the actions.\u00a0 He now has the attention of his congressman, and the Rutherford Institute is investigating the possibility of suing the VA in response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of years, there have been\u00a0a few complaints that the military, government, and the VA have been evangelizing their members.\u00a0 These complaints have occasionally led to controversial responses, but the\u00a0reaction rarely generates the headlines of the first complaint.\u00a0 In a fairly unusual turn of events, a former Chaplain for the Veterans&#8217; Administration is claiming that those actions, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4,2,10],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","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=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}