{"id":367,"date":"2009-07-12T01:59:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T05:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:30:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:30:41","slug":"update-2-god-and-country-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/update-2-god-and-country-flyby\/","title":{"rendered":"Update 2: “God and Country Festival” Flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"

As previously noted<\/a>, the Air Force declined to support the Nampa, Idaho, “God and Country Festival” with a flyby, despite a 40+ year history of supporting the event.\u00a0 The festival organizers<\/a> now have a petition<\/a> online.\u00a0 The organizers make a point of saying<\/p>\n

We want to make it clear that although it is unashamedly a Christian event, a major part of the Festival is honoring our troops who protect our freedom to assemble.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The decision has stayed in the news<\/a>, and was even covered by Bill O’Reilly\u00a0on FoxNews.\u00a0 (O’Reilly seemed to say that the AF should have done the flyby because it wasn’t about\u00a0a “specific religion at play,” which is difficult to reconcile with the unabashed Christian nature of the festival.\u00a0 O’Reilly’s “Talking Points,” which address the issue, can be seen here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

CBN has a video<\/a> discussing the event, and indicated that both of Idaho’s Congressmen, Walt Minnick (Id.-D) and Mike Simpson (Id.-R) have demanded to know why the AF had denied the request.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Idaho’s Lt Governor Brad Little gave the “keynote” speech\u00a0at the festival which “focused on recognizing members of the military for their bravery and sacrifices.”\u00a0 He decried<\/a> the AF decision, calling it “political correctness run amok.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As previously noted, the Air Force declined to support the Nampa, Idaho, “God and Country Festival” with a flyby, despite a 40+ year history of supporting the event.\u00a0 The festival organizers now have a petition online.\u00a0 The organizers make a point of saying We want to make it clear that although it is unashamedly a Christian event, a major part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[4,2,10],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","category-culture","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}