{"id":9059,"date":"2011-01-17T03:34:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T08:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9059"},"modified":"2011-01-17T03:34:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T08:34:20","slug":"bill-would-permit-religious-symbols-in-military-memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/bill-would-permit-religious-symbols-in-military-memorials\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Would Permit Religious Symbols in Military Memorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With frequent, long-lasting, and repeated <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/11\/mount-soledad-cross-unconstitutional\/\">lawsuits against military memorials<\/a> with religious symbology, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2011\/jan\/12\/hunter-bill-would-allow-religious-symbols-military\/\">US Congressmen have proposed legislation<\/a> that would explicitly permit just such memorials.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Duncan Hunter&#8230;introduced the War Memorial Protection Act in response to the federal Ninth Circuit Court\u2019s Jan. 4 ruling, declaring the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial unconstitutional. Joining Hunter as co-sponsors are Congressmen Brian Bilbray of Solana Beach and Darrell Issa of Vista.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All three Congressmen are from the San Diego area.\u00a0 Several members of Bilbray&#8217;s family are reportedly\u00a0memorialized at the Mount Soledad cross that inspired both the lawsuit and the legislation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also noted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/legislation-introduced-to-permit.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With frequent, long-lasting, and repeated lawsuits against military memorials with religious symbology, US Congressmen have proposed legislation that would explicitly permit just such memorials. Rep. Duncan Hunter&#8230;introduced the War Memorial Protection Act in response to the federal Ninth Circuit Court\u2019s Jan. 4 ruling, declaring the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial unconstitutional. Joining Hunter as co-sponsors are Congressmen Brian Bilbray of Solana [&#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":[1366,78,162,1367,1365,2,460,45,17,10,1368,1375],"class_list":["post-9059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-brian-bilbray","tag-congress","tag-cross","tag-darrell-issa","tag-duncan-hunter","tag-military","tag-mount-soledad","tag-politics","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-san-diego","tag-war-memorial-protection-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059","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=9059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}