{"id":22818,"date":"2013-05-22T01:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T04:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22818"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:28:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:28:34","slug":"blessing-of-the-fleet-canceled-over-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/22\/blessing-of-the-fleet-canceled-over-first-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessing of the Fleet Canceled over First Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year tradition of a <a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2013\/05\/13\/news\/midcoast\/elementary-schools-blessing-of-the-fleet-canceled-for-violating-first-amendment\/\">&#8220;blessing of the fleet&#8221; has been canceled<\/a> because the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State complained.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t the military, though.\u00a0 It was a grade school.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>South Bristol Elementary School eighth-graders will launch their handmade skiffs next month without the traditional \u201cblessing of the fleet\u201d after a letter from&#8230;Americans United for Separation of Church and State informed the school that student involvement with the historic maritime ceremony violated the First Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US Navy and various small towns conduct &#8220;blessings of the fleet&#8221; in accordance with centuries of maritime tradition.\u00a0 Indeed, the US Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/19\/us-navy-blesses-the-fleet\/\">just performed theirs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just don&#8217;t tell the AU&#8230;<\/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>A 16-year tradition of a &#8220;blessing of the fleet&#8221; has been canceled because the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State complained. This wasn&#8217;t the military, though.\u00a0 It was a grade school. South Bristol Elementary School eighth-graders will launch their handmade skiffs next month without the traditional \u201cblessing of the fleet\u201d after a letter from&#8230;Americans United for Separation [&#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":[60,3972,2,36,4021],"class_list":["post-22818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-americans-united","tag-blessing-of-the-fleet","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-south-bristol-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22818","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=22818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}