{"id":38,"date":"2007-04-25T09:39:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T13:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:17:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:17:05","slug":"weinsteinsekulow-debate-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/25\/weinsteinsekulow-debate-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Weinstein\/Sekulow Debate Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to local news <a href=\"http:\/\/fox21news.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=6422234\">reports<\/a>, the debate between Weinstein and Sekulow at the Air Force Academy was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazette.com\/articles\/debate_21582___article.html\/weinstein_sekulow.html\">cordial<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 Presumably, both sides are working on their after-action reports, as none have yet been published.\u00a0 According to the Fox report, Weinstein had demanded to speak at the Academy and the debate was the format the Academy agreed upon.\u00a0 The only content yet known about the debate includes Weinstein&#8217;s assertion that Jewish servicemen not be allowed to wear a yarmulke, while Sekulow maintained they should.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/span> Weinstein also made known his intentions to file another lawsuit against the Air Force, this one including plaintiffs that have standing.\u00a0 The debate can be heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krcc.org\/krccnews\/2007\/04\/religion_in_the_military_debat.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span>Neither Weinstein nor Sekulow were entirely correct about the yarmulke.\u00a0 While Rabbi Goldman did lose his <a href=\"http:\/\/law.jrank.org\/pages\/12591\/Goldman-v-Weinberger.html\">lawsuit<\/a> in 1986 in which he sued to wear the yarmulke, the 1988 (updated in 2003) version of Department of Defense Instruction <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/files\/dodd130017.pdf\">1300.17<\/a> specifically allows the wearing of a yarmulke.\u00a0 There are still &#8220;exceptions,&#8221; but the Jewish headgear is the only religious apparel specifically mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to local news reports, the debate between Weinstein and Sekulow at the Air Force Academy was &#8220;cordial.&#8221;\u00a0 Presumably, both sides are working on their after-action reports, as none have yet been published.\u00a0 According to the Fox report, Weinstein had demanded to speak at the Academy and the debate was the format the Academy agreed upon.\u00a0 The only content yet [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[1519,134,4,277,39,85,2,5218,7,1518,65,1511],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","category-military-academies","tag-1300-17","tag-air-force","tag-churchandstate","tag-jay-sekulow","tag-jewish","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-rabbi-goldman","tag-usafa","tag-yarmulke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}