{"id":33397,"date":"2015-08-26T00:15:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T03:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=33397"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:48:05","slug":"military-religious-freedom-at-ted-cruz-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/military-religious-freedom-at-ted-cruz-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Religious Freedom at Ted Cruz Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/church\/2015\/08\/22\/25k-rally-in-iowa-for-christians-targeted-at-work\">religious freedom rally<\/a> hosted by GOP Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz last week in Iowa was focused largely on businesses who were sued or driven out of business by homosexual activists intent on forcing others to support their lifestyle choices.<\/p>\n<p>However, there were two notable inclusions whose antagonist was actually the US government:<\/p>\n<p>Former Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/01\/12\/atlanta-fire-chief-kelvin-cochran-fired-for-religious-views\/\">fired for his views<\/a> in what Dr. Al Mohler said was evidence of &#8220;erotic liberty&#8221; superseding religious liberty; and\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now-retired US Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Philip Monk, who <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2013\/08\/22\/air-force-snco-claims-firing-over-religion\/\">was essentially fired<\/a> when he refused to affirm homosexuality to his commander, then-Maj Liz Valenzuela\u00a0&#8212; who, coincidentally, was a homosexual who allegedly considered Christians who didn&#8217;t affirm homosexuality\u00a0to be &#8220;bigots.&#8221;<\/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>A religious freedom rally hosted by GOP Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz last week in Iowa was focused largely on businesses who were sued or driven out of business by homosexual activists intent on forcing others to support their lifestyle choices. However, there were two notable inclusions whose antagonist was actually the US government: Former Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran, who [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[600,1009,96,4333,442,3301,5005,2,4332,17,10,171,4036],"class_list":["post-33397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-albert-mohler","tag-bigot","tag-christian","tag-elisa-valenzuela","tag-homosexual","tag-iowa","tag-kelvin-cochran","tag-military","tag-phillip-monk","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33397","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=33397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}