{"id":22845,"date":"2013-05-21T01:37:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T04:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22845"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:28:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:28:44","slug":"president-on-sexual-assault-explore-every-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/21\/president-on-sexual-assault-explore-every-good-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"President on Sexual Assault: Explore Every Good Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has explicitly told US military leaders to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=120068\">leave no stone unturned<\/a>&#8221; in their efforts to fight the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2013\/05\/17\/obama-sexual-assault-threatens-national-security.html\">national security threat<\/a>&#8221; of sexual assault in the ranks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama said he is pleased that Hagel and Dempsey are looking at proposals on Capitol Hill and elsewhere to address the problem. \u201cWhat I\u2019ve said to them is I want to leave no stone unturned and I want us to explore every good idea that\u2019s out there,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think the chances are that the US military will consider the &#8220;good idea&#8221; that religious faith plays a substantial role in supporting moral conduct?\u00a0 That&#8217;s not <!--more-->to say that religion is a panacea, nor that people with faith do not conduct themselves immorally.\u00a0 But a culture that encourages and promotes the value of religious faith will certainly be one that similarly promotes moral conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Faith is one tool, and a useful one at that, that can be used to encourage a culture that supports military core values like respect, honor, morality, and ethical conduct.<\/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>President Obama has explicitly told US military leaders to &#8220;leave no stone unturned&#8221; in their efforts to fight the &#8220;national security threat&#8221; of sexual assault in the ranks: Obama said he is pleased that Hagel and Dempsey are looking at proposals on Capitol Hill and elsewhere to address the problem. \u201cWhat I\u2019ve said to them is I want to leave [&#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":[86,2,198,43,10,171,1970],"class_list":["post-22845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-ethics","tag-military","tag-morality","tag-obama","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845","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=22845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}