{"id":8789,"date":"2010-12-31T01:55:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T06:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2013-10-06T22:59:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T01:59:31","slug":"senate-confirms-feldblum-sex-trumps-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/31\/senate-confirms-feldblum-sex-trumps-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Feldblum &#8212; &#8216;Sex Trumps Religion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before retiring for the holidays, the US Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=34344\">confirmed Obama appointee Chai Feldblum<\/a> to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Feldblum is the person quoted in the longer version of the &#8220;Christian Military Perspective on DADT,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/faithandwar.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=100:dadt-a-christian-military-perspective&amp;catid=44:strategic-leadership&amp;Itemid=55\">published at the <em>Journal of Faith and War<\/em><\/a>, saying<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>when religious liberty and sexual liberty conflict&#8230;I\u2019m having a hard time coming up with any case in which religious liberty should win.\u00a0 (The Weekly Standard, May 15, 2006).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Feldblum was a law professor at Georgetown University and <!--more-->had<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>written in recent years on the legal clash between homosexuality and religious expression. &#8220;I am convinced society should come down on the side of protecting the liberty of LGBT people,&#8221; she has written. &#8220;Protecting one group&#8217;s identity liberty, may, at times, require that we burden others&#8217; belief liberty.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before retiring for the holidays, the US Senate confirmed Obama appointee Chai Feldblum to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Feldblum is the person quoted in the longer version of the &#8220;Christian Military Perspective on DADT,&#8221; published at the Journal of Faith and War, saying when religious liberty and sexual liberty conflict&#8230;I\u2019m having a hard time coming up with any case [&#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":[1288,1289,442,43,10,171],"class_list":["post-8789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chai-feldblum","tag-eeoc","tag-homosexual","tag-obama","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789","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=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}