{"id":7369,"date":"2010-09-27T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7369"},"modified":"2013-10-03T20:45:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T23:45:17","slug":"more-chaplains-endorsers-raise-concerns-over-dadt-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/more-chaplains-endorsers-raise-concerns-over-dadt-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"More Chaplains, Endorsers Raise Concerns over DADT Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/22\/number-of-chaplains-opposing-dadt-repeal-increases\/\">ADF publication of a letter from 66 former military Chaplains<\/a> opposing the repeal of DADT on religous freedom grounds, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2010\/septemberweb-only\/48-31.0.html?start=1\"><em>Christianity Today <\/em>printed a similarly themed article<\/a> from civilian Chaplains and endorsing agencies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Southern Baptist Convention, which has the most chaplains of any denomination at nearly 450, passed a resolution in June against the repeal of DADT, claiming that a large percentage of currently serving military personnel said they would not reenlist or would end their careers early should the policy be repealed.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Presbyterian Church in America sent a letter to President Obama and military leaders in July, charging that chaplains might be reprimanded for preaching against homosexuality or refusing to marry homosexual couples.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There remains honest concern among Chaplains of the potential impacts to religious freedom:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, if a chaplain tells a gay couple that he believes their lifestyle is detrimental to them as human beings, he may be accused of discrimination, Vicalvi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the recent ADF publication of a letter from 66 former military Chaplains opposing the repeal of DADT on religous freedom grounds, Christianity Today printed a similarly themed article from civilian Chaplains and endorsing agencies. The Southern Baptist Convention, which has the most chaplains of any denomination at nearly 450, passed a resolution in June against the repeal of DADT, [&#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":[5284,4,2,171],"class_list":["post-7369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369","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=7369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}