{"id":27401,"date":"2013-12-12T07:21:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=27401"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:13:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:13:25","slug":"shaw-afb-statement-on-nativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/shaw-afb-statement-on-nativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaw AFB Statement on Nativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaw.af.mil\/press\/archive\/story.asp?id=123373981\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/a><br \/>\nNATIVITY SCENE AT SHAW AFB<\/p>\n<p>SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. &#8211; Last week a group of volunteers set up a nativity scene near Memorial Lake. All faith-based and secular groups were offered an opportunity to put up holiday displays; however, only one group elected to do so resulting in the nativity scene being the sole display.<\/p>\n<p>Based on only one faith group being represented, 20th Fighter Wing officials determined the appropriate course of action was to celebrate the holiday season consistently and elected to remove the nativity scene from Memorial Lake. In previous years, the nativity scene had been displayed on the grounds of the base chapel. All faith-based and secular groups wishing to place a holiday display on the grounds of the chapel this year are encouraged to coordinate with the Shaw chaplain staff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, if Christians want to put up a display, they are\u00a0allowed to do so only if they <em>create<\/em> one from <em>another<\/em> faith?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an interesting discussion here about\u00a0the difference between equal <em>opportunity<\/em> and equal <em>outcome<\/em>.<\/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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NATIVITY SCENE AT SHAW AFB SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. &#8211; Last week a group of volunteers set up a nativity scene near Memorial Lake. All faith-based and secular groups were offered an opportunity to put up holiday displays; however, only one group elected to do so resulting in the nativity scene being the sole display. Based [&#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":[134,38,5284,96,2650,4,82,2,1235,17,10,171,1701,40],"class_list":["post-27401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-christmas-tree","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-military","tag-nativity","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-shaw-air-force-base","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27401","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=27401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}