{"id":351,"date":"2009-06-23T11:38:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T19:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:31:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:31:52","slug":"liberty-counsel-files-complaint-with-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/23\/liberty-counsel-files-complaint-with-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Counsel Files Complaint with Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lc.org\/index.cfm?PID=14100&amp;PRID=820\">press release<\/a>, the Liberty Counsel has asked the US Navy to reverse a decision in which &#8220;religious speech&#8221; had to be removed from a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.navyformoms.com\/\">Navy for Moms<\/a>&#8221; website.\u00a0 In addition, according to the Liberty Counsel,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Navy for Moms community guidelines were also recently revised to prohibit the posting of religious discussions except for prayers offered for sailors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>These kinds of restrictions on private speakers using a government-sponsored forum are not required in order to avoid a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.<!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The government may not create a public forum of support and then proclaim that religious views are not welcome &#8212; to do so is clearly unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Liberty Counsel made the demand for the policy reversal\u00a0in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/files\/libertynavy.pdf\">letter<\/a> to the Secretary of the Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to their press release, the Liberty Counsel has asked the US Navy to reverse a decision in which &#8220;religious speech&#8221; had to be removed from a &#8220;Navy for Moms&#8221; website.\u00a0 In addition, according to the Liberty Counsel, Navy for Moms community guidelines were also recently revised to prohibit the posting of religious discussions except for prayers offered for sailors. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,2,17,10],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}