{"id":29716,"date":"2014-08-15T00:30:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T03:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29716"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:17:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:17:48","slug":"christian-commander-takes-over-military-eo-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/15\/christian-commander-takes-over-military-eo-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Commander Takes over Military EO Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US military&#8217;s equal opportunity offices, including its primary training school at DEOMI (Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute), have come under fire under the past year for a variety of issues, including labeling Christians as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/11\/congress-demands-army-answer-for-calling-christians-extremists\/\">extremists<\/a>,&#8221; using the Southern Poverty Law Center <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/07\/dod-to-continue-using-splc-as-reference\/\">as a &#8220;reference,&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/05\/us-military-eo-manual-on-laments-white-privilege\/\">lamenting &#8220;white privilege&#8221;<\/a> in the DEOMI training manual.<\/p>\n<p>In an interesting twist to the story, the newly appointed DEOMI commander, Col. Morris &#8220;Reese&#8221; Turner, made a point of noting his &#8220;strong Christian faith&#8221; in a biographical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/local\/2014\/08\/03\/quiet-determination\/13551661\/\">interview with a local paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEOMI also produces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deomi.org\/SpecialObservance\/posters_category.cfm\">official posters<\/a> for heritage and diversity months, which includes the celebration of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/diversity-in-the-us-military\/\">homosexuality and bisexuality<\/a>.<!--more--><\/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>The US military&#8217;s equal opportunity offices, including its primary training school at DEOMI (Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute), have come under fire under the past year for a variety of issues, including labeling Christians as &#8220;extremists,&#8221; using the Southern Poverty Law Center as a &#8220;reference,&#8221; and lamenting &#8220;white privilege&#8221; in the DEOMI training manual. In an interesting twist to the [&#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":[96,219,4340,2362,1470,442,2,4869,4870,1247],"class_list":["post-29716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-dadt","tag-deomi","tag-diversity","tag-equal-opportunity","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-morris-turner","tag-reese","tag-southern-poverty-law-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716","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=29716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}