{"id":42721,"date":"2018-01-25T00:30:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T03:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=42721"},"modified":"2018-01-25T02:39:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T05:39:39","slug":"gov-sam-brownback-confirmed-as-us-religious-freedom-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/25\/gov-sam-brownback-confirmed-as-us-religious-freedom-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov Sam Brownback Confirmed as US Religious Freedom Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newest American Religious Freedom Ambassador is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2018\/january\/sam-brownback-is-ambassador-international-religious-freedom.html\">Kansas Governor Sam Brownback<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The chamber voted 50\u201349\u2014calling on Vice President Mike Pence to break a tie vote for the second time that day\u2014to install Brownback in the vacant State Department position, which monitors persecution and discrimination on a global scale through the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The at-large ambassadorship was created in 1998, though <!--more-->most Americans probably couldn&#8217;t name a single appointed ambassador to date. Brownback is the first politician &#8212; and Catholic &#8212; to take the role.<\/p>\n<p>Gov Brownback has a long (and positive) history on issues of religious liberty, which has made him an occasional target of Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein and his assistant, Chris Rodda. As a US Senator, Brownback was a &#8220;key sponsor&#8221; of the legislation that created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/j\/drl\/irf\/\">the office he now leads<\/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>The newest American Religious Freedom Ambassador is Kansas Governor Sam Brownback: The chamber voted 50\u201349\u2014calling on Vice President Mike Pence to break a tie vote for the second time that day\u2014to install Brownback in the vacant State Department position, which monitors persecution and discrimination on a global scale through the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF). The at-large ambassadorship was [&#8230;]<\/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":[6500,175,6300,85,2,5218,7,10,171,6499],"class_list":["post-42721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-ambassador","tag-chris-rodda","tag-mike-pence","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-sam-brownback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42721","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=42721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42721\/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=42721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}