{"id":35079,"date":"2016-05-13T00:15:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T03:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=35079"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:37:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:37:42","slug":"atheist-sues-congressional-chaplains-over-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/atheist-sues-congressional-chaplains-over-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist Sues Congressional Chaplains over Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Barker, co-president with his wife of their self-founded <a href=\"http:\/\/ffrf.org\/\">Freedom From Religion Foundation<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianexaminer.com\/article\/atheists-sue-u-s-house-of-representatives-chaplain-on-national-day-of-prayer\/50677.htm\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the <a href=\"http:\/\/chaplain.house.gov\/\">Chaplain of the US House of Representatives<\/a>, Patrick J. Conroy, because Barker was denied the opportunity to provide an atheistic &#8220;invocation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, to be clear, a person who doesn&#8217;t play soccer is suing the soccer coach because he wants to be in the soccer game &#8212; but not play soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Makes sense.\u00a0 <!--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>Dan Barker, co-president with his wife of their self-founded Freedom From Religion Foundation, has filed a lawsuit against the Chaplain of the US House of Representatives, Patrick J. Conroy, because Barker was denied the opportunity to provide an atheistic &#8220;invocation.&#8221; So, to be clear, a person who doesn&#8217;t play soccer is suing the soccer coach because he wants to be [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3328,20,5284,78,2801,1307,5595,11,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-35079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-annie-laurie-gaylor","tag-atheism","tag-chaplain","tag-congress","tag-dan-barker","tag-freedom-from-religion-foundation","tag-patrick-conroy","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35079","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=35079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}