{"id":8544,"date":"2010-12-22T00:30:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T05:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8544"},"modified":"2010-12-20T02:48:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T07:48:52","slug":"military-should-keep-dont-ask-dont-tell-religious-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/military-should-keep-dont-ask-dont-tell-religious-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Should Keep Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell Religious Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reported that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.net\/topics\/religion\/2010\/12\/17\/conference-looks-spirituality-armed-forces\">conference on the role of spirituality<\/a> in the armed forces occurred at the University of California in Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorotis.org\/\">Dr. Pauletta Otis<\/a>, a professor of security studies at the Marine Command and Staff College, reportedly said there was good reason for &#8220;secrecy&#8221; regarding individual religious beliefs within the military, and the military should maintain a\u00a0&#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; policy on religion:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States military should maintain its \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d strategy with religion, a Marine Corps University professor said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to scholars at the gathering, Pauletta Otis said the Pentagon has good reason for its secrecy about U.S. soldiers\u2019 beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only is this research not available, but we don\u2019t want it available because it would cause divisiveness,\u201d said Otis&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost as if there&#8217;s an intentional reversing of the script&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reported that a conference on the role of spirituality in the armed forces occurred at the University of California in Berkeley. Dr. Pauletta Otis, a professor of security studies at the Marine Command and Staff College, reportedly said there was good reason for &#8220;secrecy&#8221; regarding individual religious beliefs within the military, and the military should maintain a\u00a0&#8220;don&#8217;t [&#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":[149,2,1243,63],"class_list":["post-8544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-pauletta-otis","tag-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544","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=8544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}