{"id":27249,"date":"2013-12-03T01:52:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T04:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=27249"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:17:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:17:25","slug":"congressman-bridenstine-on-military-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/03\/congressman-bridenstine-on-military-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Bridenstine on Military Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-Ok), on the recent controversies regarding &#8220;So Help Me God&#8221; at the US Air Force Academy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As a Navy pilot with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, I know firsthand the importance of faith to many of our service members.\u00a0 When the services are hostile to faith, they are hostile to their members.\u00a0 The Military Religious Freedom Coalition continues to identify instances whereby our men and women in uniform are forced to conceal or deny their deeply held religious beliefs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More from Congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/bridenstine.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/congressman-bridenstine-fights-to-protect-religious-liberty-at-the-air\">Bridenstine&#8217;s statement<\/a>.<\/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<p>v<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-Ok), on the recent controversies regarding &#8220;So Help Me God&#8221; at the US Air Force Academy: &#8220;As a Navy pilot with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, I know firsthand the importance of faith to many of our service members.\u00a0 When the services are hostile to faith, they are hostile to their members.\u00a0 The Military Religious Freedom [&#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":[58,78,5285,52,4110,2,36,10,171,4366,4357,65],"class_list":["post-27249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-congress","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-iraq","tag-jim-bridenstine","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-restore-military-religious-freedom","tag-so-help-me-god","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27249","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=27249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}