{"id":39158,"date":"2016-12-05T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T03:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=39158"},"modified":"2016-12-05T02:44:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T05:44:26","slug":"russell-amendment-removed-from-ndaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/05\/russell-amendment-removed-from-ndaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Amendment Removed from NDAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/10\/26\/military-religious-freedom-again-at-issue-in-national-defense-act\/\">Russell Amendment<\/a> to the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act was removed in the congressional conference committee.\u00a0 The conference version of the bill has since been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/house-passes-defense-bill-with-biggest-troop-pay-raise-in-years-1.442236\">passed by the House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few LGBT activist organizations celebrated this as a &#8220;victory&#8221; &#8212; though Republicans in Congress essentially said they could avoid the <!--more-->entire controversy since President Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/307968-house-senate-finalize-annual-defense-policy-bill\">can achieve the same end<\/a> with just his pen next month.<\/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>The Russell Amendment to the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act was removed in the congressional conference committee.\u00a0 The conference version of the bill has since been passed by the House. A few LGBT activist organizations celebrated this as a &#8220;victory&#8221; &#8212; though Republicans in Congress essentially said they could avoid the<\/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":[78,3546,442,2,1803,10,171,5610],"class_list":["post-39158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-ndaa","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-steve-russell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39158","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=39158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39158\/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=39158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}