{"id":24129,"date":"2013-07-18T00:23:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T03:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=24129"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:13:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:13:04","slug":"publisher-of-banned-poster-decries-attacks-on-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/18\/publisher-of-banned-poster-decries-attacks-on-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Publisher of Banned Poster Decries Attacks on Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grant DiCianni is the son of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapestryproductions.com\/abouttapestry\/speakinginformation.php\">Ron DiCianni<\/a>, the artist responsible for the &#8220;Peacemaker&#8221; poster Michael Weinstein so infamously <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/02\/weinstein-says-jump-air-force-asks-how-high\/\">&#8220;forced&#8221; the Air Force to remove<\/a>\u00a0from a Mountain Home AFB dining hall.\u00a0 He also represents the production company for the print. He previously <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/weinstein-revels-in-publicity-publisher-decries-pentagon-hostility\/\">released a statement<\/a> decrying the Pentagon&#8217;s censorship of both the poster\u00a0and the virtue it represented.\u00a0 Yesterday, he published another piece in the Christian Post and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/censored-art-demonstrates-anti-christian-movement-in-the-military-100287\/\">had these choice words<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have discovered that, and I say this in trepidation, those tasked to stand up to dictators and rogue nations can&#8217;t even stand up to one anti-Christian bully here at home&#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Once we got past all the hyperbole and wild allegations spewed by one deranged anti-Christian activist, we find that the truth is that the Air Force censored this picture solely for the Bible verse&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He then proceeds to list some of the other incidents recently published about the military and its reaction to expression of faith, weaving his company&#8217;s print into the grander picture of religious freedom in the US military.<\/p>\n<p>It seems DiCianni believes what members of Congress have recently\u00a0said: that the military\u00a0has granted favored status to a man who has a history of hateful\u00a0attacks on Christians in the US military. In the process, there is a growing perception that there is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/congressmen-advocates-call-for-military-religious-freedom\/\">&#8220;hostility&#8221; toward religious freedom<\/a> &#8212; or\u00a0Christianity in particular &#8212;\u00a0in the US military.<\/p>\n<p>DiCianni doesn&#8217;t mention Michael Weinstein by name, though there are few others who could so well fit the description of\u00a0&#8220;deranged anti-Christian activist.&#8221; Given Weinstein&#8217;s delicate disposition, DiCianni will probably get a letter from Weinstein&#8217;s lawyers asking for his insurance information, which seems to be the habit.<\/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>Grant DiCianni is the son of Ron DiCianni, the artist responsible for the &#8220;Peacemaker&#8221; poster Michael Weinstein so infamously &#8220;forced&#8221; the Air Force to remove\u00a0from a Mountain Home AFB dining hall.\u00a0 He also represents the production company for the print. He previously released a statement decrying the Pentagon&#8217;s censorship of both the poster\u00a0and the virtue it represented.\u00a0 Yesterday, he published [&#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":[134,4152,96,4149,85,2,5218,3100,7,4151,4153,10,171,4150],"class_list":["post-24129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-chow-hall","tag-christian","tag-grant-dicianni","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mountain-home","tag-mrff","tag-peacemaker","tag-poster","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-ron-dicianni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129","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=24129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}