{"id":291,"date":"2009-03-01T00:07:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T07:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:16:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:16:52","slug":"new-york-times-on-religion-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/01\/new-york-times-on-religion-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times on Religion & the Military"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times has written an article<\/a> revisiting the\u00a0Military Religious Freedom Foundation’s complaints over religious content in Army suicide prevention material, as previously discussed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article mentions that Michael Weinstein was able to meet with Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz.\u00a0 It is a potential irony that Schwartz, like Weinstein,\u00a0is\u00a0Jewish (a fact not missed at his nomination<\/a>), and that his class of 1973 at the Air Force Academy was replaced by Weinstein’s class of 1977.\u00a0\u00a0Schwartz made no secret<\/a> of his faith as a cadet and has not indicated that he experienced negative repercussions,\u00a0while Weinstein claims\u00a0a disturbing religious discrimination event\u00a0while a cadet is the motivation behind all he does.<\/p>\n

Weinstein reportedly said of the meeting with Schwartz<\/p>\n

he [took]\u00a0it very seriously,\u00a0[and]\u00a0he also acknowledged that there is a problem<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Weinstein previously called Schwartz a “yes man” unable to “stand up” for what was right:<\/p>\n

Because there\u2019s a Jew in there, that\u2019s supposed to make everything fine? It\u2019s not fine. It doesn\u2019t make a difference that he\u2019s there. The reason to me is that he\u2019s a yes man. He\u2019s not going to stand up to do what needs to be done. But we\u2019ll see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lichtblau notes that groups that oppose the MRFF fear an overreaction in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times has written an article revisiting the\u00a0Military Religious Freedom Foundation’s complaints over religious content in Army suicide prevention material, as previously discussed here. The article mentions that Michael Weinstein was able to meet with Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz.\u00a0 It is a potential irony that Schwartz, like Weinstein,\u00a0is\u00a0Jewish (a fact not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,2,5218,7,10],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}