{"id":43029,"date":"2018-03-27T00:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T03:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43029"},"modified":"2018-03-27T01:29:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T04:29:28","slug":"ocf-first-liberty-team-up-on-military-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/27\/ocf-first-liberty-team-up-on-military-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"OCF, First Liberty Team Up on Military Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocfusa.org\">Officers&#8217; Christian Fellowship<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/firstliberty.org\/\">First Liberty Institute<\/a> recently participated in an episode of OCF&#8217;s fledgling Crosspoint podcast in which retired Navy JAG CAPT Chris Blake and First Liberty lawyer (and Reserve Marine JAG) Mike Berry discussed the &#8220;religious rights of those in uniform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At one point, CAPT Blake asks &#8220;what has changed&#8221; over the past few decades that makes it seem the support for religious freedom has waned since the unashamed exercise of faith years ago. To that, Mike Berry had a witty reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The opponents of religious freedom have become louder\u2026but that doesn\u2019t make them more correct.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That was an observation <!--more-->made here beginning a few years ago when critics of religious liberty were the lone voices in the room.\u00a0 Fortunately, groups like First Liberty have risen to their challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The informative and easy to understand 40-minute podcast can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocfusa.org\/2018\/03\/understanding-religious-rights-episode-004\/\">heard here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though slightly subtle about it, OCF has been near the leading edge of military religious freedom over the\u00a0past few years. As early as 2009 OCF published the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2013\/10\/21\/most-read-the-religious-rights-of-those-in-uniform\/\">writings<\/a> of Skip Ash, a retired Army Colonel and senior counsel for the ACLJ, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocfusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/religious-rights-series.pdf\">The Religious Rights of those in Uniform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fitting that the ministry of OCF should team with these religious liberty groups. OCF exists for US troops to exercise their faith; groups like the ACLJ and First Liberty exist to defend their right to do so.<\/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>Officers&#8217; Christian Fellowship and First Liberty Institute recently participated in an episode of OCF&#8217;s fledgling Crosspoint podcast in which retired Navy JAG CAPT Chris Blake and First Liberty lawyer (and Reserve Marine JAG) Mike Berry discussed the &#8220;religious rights of those in uniform.&#8221; At one point, CAPT Blake asks &#8220;what has changed&#8221; over the past few decades that makes it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[458,2552,6540,5486,149,4415,2,36,81,179,10,171,4208],"class_list":["post-43029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-aclj","tag-american-center-for-law-and-justice","tag-chris-blake","tag-first-liberty-institute","tag-marines","tag-mike-berry","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-ocf","tag-officers-christian-fellowship","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-skip-ash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029","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=43029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43052,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029\/revisions\/43052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}