{"id":26796,"date":"2013-12-09T00:11:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T03:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=26796"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:14:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:14:29","slug":"enda-includes-military-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/09\/enda-includes-military-exception\/","title":{"rendered":"ENDA Includes Military Exception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been made of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/11\/07\/senate-oks-gay-rights-bill-banning-discrimination-heads-to-house\/\">Senate&#8217;s passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act<\/a>, which includes sexuality as a protected category.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Senate approved a bill Thursday outlawing workplace discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which passed by a vote of 64-32, will now go to the Republican-controlled House where it faces an uphill battle and may not even come up for a vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somewhat unnoticed in the press has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/lifestyles\/faith-and-values\/religion\/religion-news-in-brief\/article_0fd75e00-eee4-509b-b7d0-dfc54361f1fd.html\">this caveat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bill would <strong>exempt<\/strong> religious institutions and <strong>the military<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\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>Much has been made of the Senate&#8217;s passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which includes sexuality as a protected category. The Senate approved a bill Thursday outlawing workplace discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. The bill, which passed by a vote of 64-32, will now go to the Republican-controlled House where it faces an uphill battle and may not [&#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":[78,219,4482,4481,442,2,171],"class_list":["post-26796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-congress","tag-dadt","tag-employment-non-discrimination-act","tag-enda","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26796","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=26796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}