{"id":9721,"date":"2011-02-23T00:13:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T05:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2011-02-27T22:42:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T03:42:29","slug":"navy-christian-discharged-as-conscientious-objector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/navy-christian-discharged-as-conscientious-objector\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Christian Discharged as Conscientious Objector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ensign Michael Izbicki, a 2008 US Naval Academy graduate, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/10\/aclu-christian-navy-ensign-sue-for-co-status\/\">previously sued the US Navy<\/a> to gain status as a conscientious objector.<\/p>\n<p>A Connecticut news outlet reports Izbicki has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcconnecticut.com\/news\/local-beat\/Sub-Officer-Discharged-Over-Religious-Beliefs-116660294.html\">granted an honorable discharge<\/a>; he, in turn, is dropping his lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He&#8217;s not getting out of the Navy scot-free. As part of his honorable discharge, Izbicki will have to reimburse the Navy for his education at the Naval Academy. Normally men and women attend the service academies free of charge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Update<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: Also covered and with background at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/quaker-sailor-granted-discharge-as-conscientious-objector-49186\/\">Christian Post<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/02\/a-conscientious-discharge\/\">GetReligion.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancealert.org\/2011\/02\/22\/navy-sub-officer-discharged-over-religious-beliefs\/\">the ADF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ensign Michael Izbicki, a 2008 US Naval Academy graduate, previously sued the US Navy to gain status as a conscientious objector. A Connecticut news outlet reports Izbicki has been granted an honorable discharge; he, in turn, is dropping his lawsuit. Importantly: He&#8217;s not getting out of the Navy scot-free. As part of his honorable discharge, Izbicki will have to reimburse [&#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":[12,133,96,46,1142,2,1496,36,1495,1294,473],"class_list":["post-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-aclu","tag-annapolis","tag-christian","tag-conscientious-objector","tag-michael-izbicki","tag-military","tag-naval-academy","tag-navy","tag-nuclear","tag-submarine","tag-usna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721","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=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}