{"id":296,"date":"2009-03-14T19:38:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T23:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:16:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:16:52","slug":"air-force-investigating-religious-video-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/14\/air-force-investigating-religious-video-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Investigating Religious Video Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/15\/washington\/15video.html?_r=1\">New York Times<\/a>, Third Air Force has opened an investigation into an email incident that occurred in January.\u00a0 Col Kimberly Toney, the 501st Wing Commander, sent out a message that linked to an &#8220;inspirational&#8221; video.\u00a0 Complaints <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&amp;article=60597\">arose<\/a> because of the religious tone of the video and other content\u00a0on the host site that was reportedly derogatory to the President.\u00a0 Toney subsequently sent out another email apologizing for the first.<\/p>\n<p>A Master Sergeant who complained to the press and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has said he may join &#8220;the [MRFF&#8217;s] litigation as\u00a0a plaintiff&#8221; as a result.\u00a0 Weinstein has called the incident &#8220;hideous and almost beyond belief&#8221; and a &#8220;textbook case&#8221; of a<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>pervasive pattern of constitutional abuse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">As noted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/air-force-investigating-commanders.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Times, Third Air Force has opened an investigation into an email incident that occurred in January.\u00a0 Col Kimberly Toney, the 501st Wing Commander, sent out a message that linked to an &#8220;inspirational&#8221; video.\u00a0 Complaints arose because of the religious tone of the video and other content\u00a0on the host site that was reportedly derogatory to the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[4,1505,85,2,5218,7,10],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","tag-churchandstate","tag-kimberly-toney","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}