{"id":5587,"date":"2010-05-27T00:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T08:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2010-05-27T20:50:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T04:50:19","slug":"defense-amendment-on-chaplains-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/defense-amendment-on-chaplains-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Amendment on Chaplains&#8217; Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Update<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: Bachmann&#8217;s amendment has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2010\/05\/house-rejects-amendment-on-cha.php\">reportedly been refused<\/a> due to not being &#8220;relevant to the bill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>US House Rep Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would &#8220;protect the religious freedom&#8221; of Chaplains in the US military, allowing them to pray in accordance with the dictates of their faith.\u00a0 From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rules.house.gov\/amendment_details.aspx?NewsID=4665\">rules committee<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rules.house.gov\/111\/AmndmentsSubmitted\/hr5136a\/bachman_56_hr5136.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), the amendment\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Would ensure that any chaplain serving in the US Armed Forces, if called upon to lead a prayer outside of a religious service, would be free to close that prayer according to the dictates of the chaplain&#8217;s conscience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amendments like this have failed in the past; see the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/17\/chaplains-and-congress-the-defense-authorization-act-of-2007\/\">2007 Defense Authorization Act<\/a>.\u00a0 The House version contained the amendment, but the final version out of conference committee did not.\u00a0 This attempt does not appear to have\u00a0yet made it out of committee.<\/p>\n<p>Recent discussions on the repeal DADT, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/retired-chaplains-oppose-dadt-repeal\/\">call for &#8220;conscience clauses&#8221; for Chaplains<\/a>, have given renewed emphasis to the subject of the religious freedom of Chaplains in the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Bachmann&#8217;s amendment has reportedly been refused due to not being &#8220;relevant to the bill.&#8221; US House Rep Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would &#8220;protect the religious freedom&#8221; of Chaplains in the US military, allowing them to pray in accordance with the dictates of their faith.\u00a0 From the rules committee\u00a0(pdf), the [&#8230;]<\/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":[5284,4,78,219,563,562,11,17,10],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","category-government-and-religion","tag-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-congress","tag-dadt","tag-defense-authorization-act","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","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=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}