{"id":22657,"date":"2013-11-15T00:30:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T03:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22657"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:23:53","slug":"chaplain-christian-beliefs-could-be-considered-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/15\/chaplain-christian-beliefs-could-be-considered-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain: Christian Beliefs could be Considered Hate Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Senate Chaplain Barry Black recently made waves for his daily prayers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/senate-chaplains-popularity-up-after-fire-and-brimstone-prayers-amid-shutdown\/2013\/11\/01\/ad1c3940-3c23-11e3-b7ba-503fb5822c3e_story.html\">scolding the US Congress<\/a> during the government &#8220;shutdown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though it was just as newsworthy, another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/military-chaplains-must-contend-with-hate-speech-accusations-inclusive-prayers-not-an-issue-senate-chaplain-says-94955\/\">address by\u00a0Chaplain Black<\/a> &#8212; himself a former US Navy Chief of Chaplains &#8212; was lost in the simultaneous hubbub over Michael Weinstein and <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/reports-us-air-force-consults-michael-weinstein-on-religious-policy\/\">his meeting with the\u00a0US Air Force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his address to the Heritage Foundation in April, Chaplain Black noted plainly that Christian doctrine might one day be considered &#8220;hate speech:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Military chaplains&#8230;may have problems <!--more-->with being accused of &#8220;hate speech&#8221; for teaching what scripture says about homosexuality, Barry Black [said]&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I can see many military chaplains having some problems because, to teach the passages of Paul with exegetical integrity would mean being accused of engaging in hate speech. So, this is a challenge that I think we&#8217;re going to have to deal with going forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notably, he <em>encouraged<\/em> Christians to bring their faith into the workplace:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Black] encouraged Christians to bring their faith into the workplace by being &#8220;salt and light&#8221; and by witnessing without words. By being ethically congruent and focusing on one&#8217;s actions, Black said, Christians can make a difference in their workplaces without using words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Black&#8217;s encouragement to live a Christ-like life in whatever one&#8217;s situation is a theme that has been <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/chick-fil-a-on-being-a-missionary-in-the-workplace\/\">echoed here before<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senate Chaplain Barry Black recently made waves for his daily prayers scolding the US Congress during the government &#8220;shutdown.&#8221; Though it was just as newsworthy, another address by\u00a0Chaplain Black &#8212; himself a former US Navy Chief of Chaplains &#8212; was lost in the simultaneous hubbub over Michael Weinstein and his meeting with the\u00a0US Air Force. In his address to [&#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":[134,4418,5284,96,78,442,85,2,5218,7,10,171,74],"class_list":["post-22657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-barry-black","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-congress","tag-homosexual","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22657","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=22657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}