{"id":4667,"date":"2010-04-12T00:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T08:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2011-03-23T22:52:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T03:52:58","slug":"obama-praises-military-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/obama-praises-military-chaplain\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Praises Military Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a wide-ranging interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer<\/a>\u00a0a few weeks ago, President Obama spoke once again of his family’s position regarding attending church regularly, or “joining” a particular church.\u00a0 In one of the more underreported comments, he singled out a military Chaplain for strong praise:<\/p>\n

We love the chapel up in Camp David. It’s probably our favorite place to worship because it’s just family up at Camp David. There’s a wonderful chaplain up there who does just a great job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is rare enough for a military officer to get such stark praise from his Commander-in-Chief; when one’s job is primarily spiritual care in the military–sometimes a politically controversial topic–it would seem to be rarer still.\u00a0 The last reported Chaplain at Camp David was Chaplain (Lt Cmdr) Carey Cash, who was unsuccessfully targeted for elimination<\/a> from the military by a group opposing religious freedom in the military.<\/p>\n

President Obama gave high praise to a military Chaplain and subsequently gave a supportive citation of a fighter pilot Easter<\/a>.\u00a0 These incidents seem to indicate the\u00a0Commander-in-Chief is supportive of religious expression\u00a0in the military in these regards, despite\u00a0fringe conspiracy theorists sometimes criticizing\u00a0those same religious freedoms.<\/p>\n

Via the Religion News Service<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During a wide-ranging interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer\u00a0a few weeks ago, President Obama spoke once again of his family’s position regarding attending church regularly, or “joining” a particular church.\u00a0 In one of the more underreported comments, he singled out a military Chaplain for strong praise: We love the chapel up in Camp David. It’s probably our favorite place to worship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[368,367,38,5284,4,1424,369,2,43,17,10],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","category-government-and-religion","tag-camp-david","tag-carey-cash","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-conspiracy","tag-matt-lauer","tag-military","tag-obama","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","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=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}