{"id":39944,"date":"2017-02-14T00:15:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T03:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=39944"},"modified":"2017-02-14T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T11:07:06","slug":"first-liberty-unbelievable-opportunities-for-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/14\/first-liberty-unbelievable-opportunities-for-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"First Liberty: &#8220;Unbelievable Opportunities&#8221; for Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Liberty Institute, one of the leading religious liberty legal groups in the country, recently said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/barbara-hollingsworth\/we-see-unbelievable-opportunities-advancing-religious-freedom\">in an interview<\/a> that they&#8217;re very hopeful about the opportunities for freedom under the Trump administration. Kelly Shackelford, president and CEO of the First Liberty Institute, said<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>that President Donald Trump \u201cmade a lot of promises as a candidate about religious freedom. He\u2019s very committed to making sure that things changed. And so now it\u2019s just going to be a matter of whether those promises are followed through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, he\u2019s been fulfilling his promises. <!--more-->And I think there\u2019s a lot of people watching, encouraging, pushing, and expecting that. I fully expect the president to do the same thing by advancing and protecting religious freedom.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like many, Shackelford was pleased with President Trump&#8217;s comments at the National Prayer Breakfast and his nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the US Supreme Court &#8212; though, also like many, his optimism is qualified by what Trump&#8217;s future decisions may be.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has also made very positive statements about military religious freedom, so it will be interesting to see what these future decisions are.<\/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>First Liberty Institute, one of the leading religious liberty legal groups in the country, recently said in an interview that they&#8217;re very hopeful about the opportunities for freedom under the Trump administration. Kelly Shackelford, president and CEO of the First Liberty Institute, said that President Donald Trump \u201cmade a lot of promises as a candidate about religious freedom. He\u2019s very [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3546,5486,3309,2,6107,10,171,457],"class_list":["post-39944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-donald-trump","tag-first-liberty-institute","tag-kelly-shackelford","tag-military","tag-neil-gorsuch","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39944","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=39944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}