{"id":28575,"date":"2014-03-18T00:40:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T03:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28575"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:08:59","slug":"secaf-on-respect-for-diversity-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/18\/secaf-on-respect-for-diversity-of-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"SecAF on Respect for Diversity of Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cEverything comes down to people, as far as I&#8217;m concerned,\u201d [Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James] said. This means recruiting and retaining the best people and developing them once they\u2019re in the force, she said.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes diversity of thought and background among decision-makers, dignity and respect for all, and <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>making sure that everybody is on top of and leading and living the service\u2019s core values, James said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Presumably, the desire to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/223\/Article\/473730\/secaf-addresses-budget-challenges-in-congress.aspx\">recruit and retain<\/a>&#8221; people of &#8220;diversity of thought and background&#8221; includes those whose thoughts and background include religious beliefs.<\/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>\u201cEverything comes down to people, as far as I&#8217;m concerned,\u201d [Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James] said. This means recruiting and retaining the best people and developing them once they\u2019re in the force, she said. It also includes diversity of thought and background among decision-makers, dignity and respect for all, and<\/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":[134,4303,2,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-28575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-deborah-lee-james","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28575","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=28575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}