{"id":27,"date":"2007-02-23T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2011-06-06T01:42:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T06:42:30","slug":"americans-united-responds-to-wiccan-army-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/23\/americans-united-responds-to-wiccan-army-chaplain\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans United Responds to Wiccan Army Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans United for the Separation of Church and State picked up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.au.org\/2007\/02\/20\/unholy-orders-the-army-maneuvers-its-way-around-religious-liberty\/\">story<\/a> of the Army Chaplain who wanted to switch from Christianity to Wicca, claiming that the Army&#8217;s treatment of him was &#8220;so obviously a case of religious discrimination.&#8221;\u00a0 As noted in the public comments on the article, there are questions as to why the AU hasn&#8217;t made the same appeal about Chaplain Klingenschmitt, who the Navy attempted to discharge when he switched endorsers.\u00a0 The basic circumstances are nearly identical; in fact, Klingenschmitt&#8217;s is arguably <em>harder <\/em>to justify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans United for the Separation of Church and State picked up on the story of the Army Chaplain who wanted to switch from Christianity to Wicca, claiming that the Army&#8217;s treatment of him was &#8220;so obviously a case of religious discrimination.&#8221;\u00a0 As noted in the public comments on the article, there are questions as to why the AU hasn&#8217;t made [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[60,2,10,77],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-americans-united","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-wicca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}