{"id":6219,"date":"2010-07-13T00:25:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T06:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2010-07-12T23:43:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T05:43:20","slug":"chaplains-website-needs-disclaimer-critic-seeks-board-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/chaplains-website-needs-disclaimer-critic-seeks-board-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain&#8217;s Website Needs Disclaimer, Critic Seeks Board Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago the Chaplain for the Spring Hill Fire Department <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/22\/complaint-against-chaplains-website\/\">came under fire for having a webpage<\/a>, on the department&#8217;s website, with religious-specific content.\u00a0 Ken Fagan, a local citizen, complained that Chaplain Jack Martin broke rules with his page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The matter was brought to the attention of the Florida Department of Community Affairs in January after resident Ken Fagan complained Martin broke &#8220;ethics rules&#8221; with his website and that he has &#8220;crossed the line regarding the separation of church and state.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, the assistant attorney general for Florida has said the website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springhillfire.com\/chaplain\/index.html\">here<\/a>) must <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.hernandotoday.com\/content\/2010\/jul\/01\/chaplain-link-will-include-disclaimer\/news\/\">have a disclaimer<\/a>, and that it may have &#8220;information that arguably <!--more-->may exceed the scope of information that is permissible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As noted earlier, there is no cause for Fagan&#8217;s complaint:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The concept of religious freedom&#8230;was never intended to proscribe all persons in public service from ever mentioning religion or a specific sect of religion.\u00a0 Unfortunately, religious hypersensitivity in America has reached a point where a link on a Chaplain\u2019s webpage can give rise to an inaccurate complaint.\u00a0 The US\u00a0military has also received similar complaints when troops associate themselves with religion in public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The sensitivity level rose so much that Martin even put a disclaimer on his own biography.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Fagan is apparently seeking a seat on the Spring Hill Board of Fire Commissioners &#8212; the supervisory board that oversees the Fire Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago the Chaplain for the Spring Hill Fire Department came under fire for having a webpage, on the department&#8217;s website, with religious-specific content.\u00a0 Ken Fagan, a local citizen, complained that Chaplain Jack Martin broke rules with his page: The matter was brought to the attention of the Florida Department of Community Affairs in January after resident Ken [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5284,4,82,312,311,17,10,313],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-jack-martin","tag-ken-fagan","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-spring-hill-fire-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","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=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}