{"id":39967,"date":"2017-02-22T00:15:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T03:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=39967"},"modified":"2017-02-22T09:05:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T12:05:54","slug":"retired-chaplain-calls-for-defense-of-military-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/22\/retired-chaplain-calls-for-defense-of-military-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Chaplain Calls for Defense of Military Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Governmental discrimination against people of faith in the armed forces is unacceptable<\/strong> and will impact the morale of any unit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It has been the norm for these last eight years for <strong>service members to be pressured to renounce their religious views on topics like sexuality<\/strong> \u2014 or be punished for not doing so \u2014 as well as other attacks on religious freedom in the military. <strong>This \u201creligious cleansing\u201d has national security implications<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump should quickly change <!--more-->the atmosphere by ordering the Department of Defense to make clear that political correctness must end. The free exercise of religious liberty is in the Constitution and military codes and must be guaranteed to all service members and chaplains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/feb\/14\/troop-morale-linked-to-upholding-chaplains-religio\/\">Retired US Navy Chaplain Wes Modder<\/a><\/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>Governmental discrimination against people of faith in the armed forces is unacceptable and will impact the morale of any unit&#8230; It has been the norm for these last eight years for service members to be pressured to renounce their religious views on topics like sexuality \u2014 or be punished for not doing so \u2014 as well as other attacks on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5284,219,442,2,17,10,171,5048],"class_list":["post-39967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chaplain","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-wes-modder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39967","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=39967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}