{"id":30382,"date":"2014-11-13T00:30:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T03:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30382"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:05:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:05:44","slug":"chaplain-klingenschmitt-gets-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/13\/chaplain-klingenschmitt-gets-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Klingenschmitt Gets Elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 70% of the vote, former US Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/former-chaplain-anti-gay-activist-elected-in-colorado-1.312534\">elected as a Republican<\/a> to the Colorado state legislature from a district encompassing the major military bases in Colorado Springs &#8212; including the US Air Force Academy, his alma mater.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gordon \u201cDr. Chaps\u201d Klingenschmitt beat out his Democrat challenger Tuesday with a landslide 70 percent of the vote in the state\u2019s District 15, according to results published by the secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>District 15 encompasses Peterson Air Force Base, and is near Colorado Springs, Fort Carson and the U.S. Air Force Academy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Klingenschmitt&#8217;s positions may have been considered &#8220;far right,&#8221; his opponent&#8217;s were apparently as equally &#8220;far left.&#8221; In an election that saw Colorado&#8217;s legislature and governorship go to Republicans, it seems the &#8220;right&#8221; won out.<\/p>\n<p>Klingenschmitt is famous for being discharged from the Navy over the &#8220;pray in Jesus&#8217; name&#8221; controversy. He was also <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/04\/michael-weinstein-loses-lawsuit-against-imprecatory-chaplain\/\">unsuccessfully sued<\/a> by Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein and his wife Bonnie &#8212; whom <em>he<\/em> subsequently <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/lawsuit-against-mikey-weinstein-survives-dismissal\/\">sued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also via Klingenschmitt&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/christiannewswire.com\/news\/3779675092.html\">press release<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<!--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>With 70% of the vote, former US Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt was elected as a Republican to the Colorado state legislature from a district encompassing the major military bases in Colorado Springs &#8212; including the US Air Force Academy, his alma mater. Gordon \u201cDr. Chaps\u201d Klingenschmitt beat out his Democrat challenger Tuesday with a landslide 70 percent of the vote [&#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":[3118,5284,276,85,2,5218,7,36,65],"class_list":["post-30382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bonnie-weinstein","tag-chaplain","tag-gordon-klingenschmitt","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-navy","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30382","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=30382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}