{"id":30665,"date":"2014-12-30T00:15:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30665"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:49:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:49:57","slug":"army-rescinds-rotc-instructor-faith-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/30\/army-rescinds-rotc-instructor-faith-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Rescinds ROTC Instructor Faith Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While saying the move was unrelated to Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/wheaton-rotc-under-review-for-christian-requirement\/\">complaint a few weeks ago<\/a>, the US Army &#8220;removed all university preferences from [its] assignment postings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the text &#8220;must be of Christian faith&#8221; will no longer appear next to Army staff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/story\/military\/2014\/12\/18\/wheaton-college-christians-only-rotc-job-posting-pulled-says-mrff-army-mikey-weinstein\/20602499\/\">assignments to Wheaton College<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This was previously discussed at length. While Weinstein called it a &#8220;HUGE MRFF Victory&#8221; [emphasis original], it <!--more-->ultimately matters very little. No one indicated they had been refused an assignment to the college, and no one claimed discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely Wheaton will continue to host ROTC as it does now, and it is likely the instructors will continue to be of the character they have been for many years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/US\/army-rotc-christian-colleges\/2014\/12\/18\/id\/613939\/\">Newsmax<\/a>.<\/span><\/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>While saying the move was unrelated to Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein&#8217;s complaint a few weeks ago, the US Army &#8220;removed all university preferences from [its] assignment postings.&#8221; In other words, the text &#8220;must be of Christian faith&#8221; will no longer appear next to Army staff assignments to Wheaton College. This was previously discussed at length. While Weinstein called it a &#8220;HUGE [&#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":[88,96,82,85,2,5218,7,10,171,767,4964],"class_list":["post-30665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-christian","tag-constitution","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-rotc","tag-wheaton-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30665","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=30665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}