{"id":40788,"date":"2017-05-05T22:53:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T01:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=40788"},"modified":"2017-05-05T23:13:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T02:13:30","slug":"mark-green-withdraws-from-nomination-for-secretary-of-the-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/05\/mark-green-withdraws-from-nomination-for-secretary-of-the-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Green Withdraws from Nomination for Secretary of the Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40737\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/markgreen2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/markgreen2.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/markgreen2-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/markgreen2-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>Tennessee state senator Mark Green has withdrawn his name from consideration for the position of Secretary of the Army.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;To meet these challenges, there should be no distractions. And unfortunately <strong>due to false and misleading attacks against me<\/strong>, this nomination has become a distraction,&#8221; [Mark Green] said in his statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tragically, <strong>my life of public service and my Christian beliefs have been mischaracterized and attacked<\/strong> by a few on the other side of the aisle for political gain,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;While these false <strong>attacks have no bearing on the needs of the Army or my qualifications to serve<\/strong>, I believe it is critical to give the President the ability to move forward with his vision to restore our military to its rightful place in the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Score:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Those who hold certain religious beliefs: 0.<\/li>\n<li>Those who like to participate in specific sexual behaviors: 1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What a backwards <!--more-->world we live in &#8212; but that should be no surprise.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You will be hated by all for my name\u2019s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/matthew\/10-22.htm\">Matthew 10:22<\/a> (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As initially reported at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/2017\/05\/05\/mark-green-withdraws-army-secretary-nominee\/101339308\/\">The Tennessean<\/a>.\u00a0 Also at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/05\/05\/trumps-pick-for-army-post-drops-out-amid-growing-criticism.html\">FoxNews<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/mark-green-withdraws-from-army-secretary-consideration-1.467022\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/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>Tennessee state senator Mark Green has withdrawn his name from consideration for the position of Secretary of the Army. &#8220;To meet these challenges, there should be no distractions. And unfortunately due to false and misleading attacks against me, this nomination has become a distraction,&#8221; [Mark Green] said in his statement. &#8220;Tragically, my life of public service and my Christian beliefs [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3793,4794,88,3792,442,6212,2,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-40788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-american-military-partner-association","tag-ampa","tag-army","tag-ashley-broadway","tag-homosexual","tag-mark-green","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40788","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=40788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}