{"id":2439,"date":"2009-11-30T00:32:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T08:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2009-11-29T20:11:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:11:52","slug":"sikhs-celebrate-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/sikhs-celebrate-at-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikhs Celebrate at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House blog details the Sikh celebration<\/a> of the “540th anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji” that took place on November 13th.\u00a0\u00a0President Obama did not attend (he was on the first leg of his Asia trip), and it does not appear\u00a0he made a statement on the celebration.<\/p>\n

The White House notes that this is the first Sikh celebration to occur in the White House.\u00a0 It is not, however, the first time this event has been recognized by the White House.\u00a0 While President George W. Bush did not celebrate Dev Ji’s birthday, he did issue a statement acknowledging it more than once.\u00a0 For example, in 2003<\/a>, then-President Bush said<\/p>\n

As Americans, we cherish our freedom to worship freely, and we remain committed to welcoming individuals of all religions. By working together, we help advance peace and mutual understanding around the world and build a future of promise and compassion for all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Within the US Army, a Sikh was recently granted an exemption<\/a> to wear the articles of his faith, including a turban, while he served in uniform.\u00a0 Because Sikhs generally consider those articles of faith a matter for which compromise is not an option,\u00a0the Sikh Coalition has said that Sikhs are essentially prohibited from serving by regulations that prohibit them from adhering to the tenets of their faith.<\/p>\n

As noted at the Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The White House blog details the Sikh celebration of the “540th anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji” that took place on November 13th.\u00a0\u00a0President Obama did not attend (he was on the first leg of his Asia trip), and it does not appear\u00a0he made a statement on the celebration. The White House notes that this is the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[61,4,19,43,17,10,59],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bush","tag-churchandstate","tag-government","tag-obama","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-sikh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","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=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}