{"id":9948,"date":"2011-03-14T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9948"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:15:26","slug":"mrff-steps-on-military-atheists-toes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/mrff-steps-on-military-atheists-toes\/","title":{"rendered":"MRFF Steps on Military Atheists&#8217; Toes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the often unified front of Michael Weinstein and his allies, it seems even his supporters are sometimes put off by his methods.<\/p>\n<p>From Jason Torpy, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.militaryatheists.org\/2011\/02\/update-on-usafa-training\/\">Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers<\/a>, referring to the USAFA invitation of USMC Lt (Ret) <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/mrff-sues-usafa-over-mcclary-invitation\/\">Clebe McClary to the National Prayer Luncheon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Recently] a sign promoting leadership based on religion was removed based on MAAF intervention and the understanding of [Air Force] Academy officials. Resolution was simple because of open dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation to Clebe McClary, <!--more-->a speaker whose website promotes a Christian military, to keynote the Academy\u2019s official prayer breakfast Feb 10th caused concern among a number of organizations. MAAF reached out to the Academy and Clebe McClary directly. The Academy opened positive dialogue, but <em>unfortunately the issue went to court before a collaborative solution<\/em> could be reached. (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems the MAAF thought they were having a &#8220;positive dialogue&#8221; right up to the point Weinstein &#8220;unfortunately&#8221; filed his lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the often unified front of Michael Weinstein and his allies, it seems even his supporters are sometimes put off by his methods. From Jason Torpy, at the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, referring to the USAFA invitation of USMC Lt (Ret) Clebe McClary to the National Prayer Luncheon: [Recently] a sign promoting leadership based on religion was removed [&#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":[253,107,85,2,5218,7,65],"class_list":["post-9948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-jason-torpy","tag-maaf","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948","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=9948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}