{"id":58737,"date":"2015-03-14T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58737"},"modified":"2015-03-14T11:01:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T15:01:09","slug":"air-force-approves-of-have-a-blessed-day-at-the-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58737","title":{"rendered":"Air Force approves of “have a blessed day” at the gates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, this was a thing. Gate guards at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia would wish folks “a blessed day” after they checked your ID cards for entrance to the base and it didn’t sit well with one fellow, according to The Christian Science Monitor<\/a>;<\/p>\n

As anonymous airman complained to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation that as a nonreligious person, he felt uncomfortable being told numerous times to \u201chave a blessed day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI found the greeting to be a notion that I, as a nonreligious member of the military community, should believe a higher power has an influence on how my day should go,\u201d the airman wrote. The organization reported similar complaints from 13 Air Force individuals, nine of whom were described as practicing Christians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation isn’t about freedom of religion at all, for some reason, they don’t want there to be religion in daily life. Their current target is the military, although they will at times swerve off that path and attack memorials. Anyway, the Air Force decided that “have a blessed day” is keeping with Air Force standards;<\/p>\n

“The Air Force takes any expressed concern over religious freedom very seriously,” base spokesman Roland Leach said in a statement Thursday. “Upon further review and consultation, the Air Force determined use of the phrase ‘have a blessed day’ as a greeting is consistent with Air Force standards and is not in violation of Air Force Instructions.”<\/p>\n

The standard greeting at the base is “welcome to team Robins,” to which guards may add courteous and professional greetings if they wish, Mr. Leach said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Little Mikey Weinstein, the nominal head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation isn’t happy about gate guards’ freedom to greet people at the gate, however;<\/p>\n

“Whenever the Air Force is pushed to the test, they will crater to the religious right,” he told the newspaper (which is not a government publication). “This is an example where it’s fine to say, ‘Welcome to Team Robins,’ but, as I said before, what are you going to do if the gate guards say: ‘Welcome to Team Robins, hail Satan!'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How’s about they say “Welcome to Team Robins, screw Mikey Weinstein, the whiny little creep”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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