{"id":4016,"date":"2010-03-15T03:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2010-03-15T03:41:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T11:41:03","slug":"military-national-prayer-breakfasts-include-many-faiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/15\/military-national-prayer-breakfasts-include-many-faiths\/","title":{"rendered":"Military National Prayer Breakfasts Include Many Faiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the topic of National Prayer Breakfasts at local military installations <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/09\/prayer-government-and-the-us-military\/\">was already discussed<\/a>, the events continue to occur at various locations around the world.\u00a0 At Fort Benning, a picture showed the nature of the breakfast within the military:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 521px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/prayerbkfst.jpg\" alt=\"Jewish Chaplain (Maj) Carlos Huerta talks with Muslim imam Dawud Salahuddin Bin Pearson before the start of the National Prayer Breakfast. (US Army Photo)\" width=\"511\" height=\"367\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewish Chaplain (Maj) Carlos Huerta talks with Muslim imam Dawud Salahuddin Bin Pearson before the start of the National Prayer Breakfast. (US Army Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The celebration was open to all faiths and included prayers by Muslim imam Dawud Salahuddin Bin Pearson and Jewish Chaplain <!--more-->(MAJ) Carlos Huerta, 30th Adjutant General Battalion (Reception).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SSG(R) John Toland displayed an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/02\/25\/34989-fort-benning-gathers-for-prayer\/\">admirable view of religious freedom<\/a> when he said he attended to support the Chaplains and all Soldiers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They defend our freedom to worship how we want to,&#8221; Toland said. &#8220;That&#8217;s one of the tenants of the Constitution: freedom of religion. You have Protestants&#8230;Catholics&#8230;Muslims&#8230;Jews&#8230; Buddhists.\u00a0 Even though I don&#8217;t believe in (many) of those other faiths, I&#8217;ll support their right to worship. It&#8217;s what this country is about.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the topic of National Prayer Breakfasts at local military installations was already discussed, the events continue to occur at various locations around the world.\u00a0 At Fort Benning, a picture showed the nature of the breakfast within the military: The celebration was open to all faiths and included prayers by Muslim imam Dawud Salahuddin Bin Pearson and Jewish Chaplain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[290,5284,4,289,44,39,291,2,237,11,17,10],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-carlos-huerta","tag-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-dawud-salahuddin-bin-pearson","tag-islam","tag-jewish","tag-john-toland","tag-military","tag-national-prayer-breakfast","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","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=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}