{"id":7025,"date":"2010-08-30T00:25:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T06:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2010-08-29T21:43:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T03:43:59","slug":"chaplain-dadt-repeal-will-shred-moral-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/chaplain-dadt-repeal-will-shred-moral-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain: DADT Repeal will &#8220;Shred&#8230;Moral Fabric&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recently retired Army Reserve Chaplain minced few words in criticizing the proposed repeal of the policy known as &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell.&#8221;\u00a0 Chaplain (Col) Alexander Webster (USA, Ret) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/chaplains-in-no-win-situation-on-don-t-ask-1.115780\">said, among other things<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Barack Obama\u2019s initiative to rescind the \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d statute of 1993 will, if Congress yields to him later this year, shred the social and moral fabric of our armed forces&#8230;Fortunately for the nation and its military defense, many chaplains and their civilian faith group leaders are beginning, at last, to push back on the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Webster cites the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/retired-chaplains-oppose-dadt-repeal\/\">ADF letter from the Chaplains<\/a> and the resolutions from Chaplain endorsers opposing repeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently retired Army Reserve Chaplain minced few words in criticizing the proposed repeal of the policy known as &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell.&#8221;\u00a0 Chaplain (Col) Alexander Webster (USA, Ret) said, among other things: President Barack Obama\u2019s initiative to rescind the \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d statute of 1993 will, if Congress yields to him later this year, shred the social and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[943,5284,219,2,10],"class_list":["post-7025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","category-government-and-religion","tag-alexander-webster","tag-chaplain","tag-dadt","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025","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=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}