{"id":43579,"date":"2018-08-24T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43579"},"modified":"2018-09-02T10:50:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T13:50:04","slug":"breaking-army-rejects-punishment-for-chaplain-squires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/24\/breaking-army-rejects-punishment-for-chaplain-squires\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Army Rejects Punishment for Chaplain Squires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0 From First Liberty&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/legal-courts\/2018\/08\/27\/sbc-chaplain-cleared-of-discrimination-charge\">Mike Berry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the end of the day, if anyone has been the victim of discrimination here, it&#8217;s been Chaplain Squires and Staff Sergeant Griffin. I&#8217;m thankful that a two-star general stepped in and corrected things, but <strong>it should never have come to that in the first place<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Fox News&#8217; Todd Starnes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2018\/08\/24\/todd-starnes-army-clears-baptist-chaplain-accused-discriminating-against-lesbian-couple.html\">reports<\/a> on the First Liberty press release that the Army has rejected the recommendation to punish Chaplain (Maj) Scott Squires for how he handled a Strong Bonds marriage retreat when a homosexual couple said they wanted to come.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/firstliberty.org\/cases\/squires\/#simple3\">First Liberty Institute<\/a>: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, the United States Army announced that it has rejected the findings of an investigation, and will abandon charges of \u201cdereliction of duty\u201d against First Liberty Institute clients Chaplain Scott Squires and Chaplain Assistant, SSG Kacie Griffin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/army-clears-chaplain-of-career-ending-charges-over-lesbian-marriage-retreat-controversy-227008\/\">Christian Post<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/08\/25\/army-chaplain-cleared-of-dereliction-of-duty-in-gay-marriage-dust-up\/\">Breitbart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2018\/08\/army-pulls-plug-on-campaign-to-punish-christian-chaplain\/\">WND<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/51489\/army-chaplain-squires-cleared-of-all-charges\">Baptist Press<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/2018\/08\/1118889-army-dismisses-claim-chaplain-derelict\/\">IJR.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/army-clears-chaplain-of-career-ending-charges-over-lesbian-marriage-retreat-controversy-227008\/\">The Pathway<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/christiannews.net\/2018\/08\/25\/u-s-army-rejects-charge-against-chaplain-investigated-over-lesbian-who-wanted-to-attend-marriage-retreat\/\">ChristianNews.net<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baptiststandard.com\/news\/nation\/baptist-military-chaplain-cleared-of-discrimination-charges\/\">Baptist Standard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/u.s.-army-drops-charges-against-chaplain-who-wouldnt-run-marriage-retreat-f\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/brnow.org\/News\/August-2018\/Army-chaplain-Squires-cleared-of-all-charges\">Biblical Recorder<\/a>, and US Rep Vicky Hartzler&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepHartzler\/status\/1033091071767654405?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Enews%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">Twitter feed<\/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>Update:\u00a0 From First Liberty&#8217;s Mike Berry: At the end of the day, if anyone has been the victim of discrimination here, it&#8217;s been Chaplain Squires and Staff Sergeant Griffin. I&#8217;m thankful that a two-star general stepped in and corrected things, but it should never have come to that in the first place. Fox News&#8217; Todd Starnes reports on the First [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,5284,96,82,1470,5486,442,6605,4415,2,10,171,6553,616,2628],"class_list":["post-43579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-constitution","tag-equal-opportunity","tag-first-liberty-institute","tag-homosexual","tag-kacie-griffin","tag-mike-berry","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-scott-squires","tag-strong-bonds","tag-todd-starnes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43579","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=43579"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43610,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43579\/revisions\/43610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}