{"id":30652,"date":"2014-12-29T00:45:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T03:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30652"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:50:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:50:11","slug":"secdef-exercise-the-freedoms-you-protect-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/29\/secdef-exercise-the-freedoms-you-protect-video\/","title":{"rendered":"SecDef: Exercise the Freedoms You Protect (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel encouraged US troops to vote, noting<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Americans serving in uniform, voting is more than a civic responsibility. It&#8217;s about exercising the rights you&#8217;ve sworn to defend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s encouraging to see senior leaders call on troops to exercise the rights they&#8217;ve promised their very lives to defend. Notably, the right to free exercise of religion is <!--more-->likewise a freedom troops have sworn to defend &#8212; and one US troops should be encouraged to exercise, both in word and policy.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Hagel&#8217;s voting message can be seen below:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0T7h1S-kOb0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\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>A few months ago Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel encouraged US troops to vote, noting For Americans serving in uniform, voting is more than a civic responsibility. It&#8217;s about exercising the rights you&#8217;ve sworn to defend. It&#8217;s encouraging to see senior leaders call on troops to exercise the rights they&#8217;ve promised their very lives to defend. Notably, the right to [&#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":[3856,82,2,17,10,171,3458],"class_list":["post-30652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chuck-hagel","tag-constitution","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30652","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=30652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}