{"id":93899,"date":"2019-12-31T14:46:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T18:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=93899"},"modified":"2019-12-31T14:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T18:46:38","slug":"military-religious-freedom-foundation-versus-jesus-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=93899","title":{"rendered":"Military Religious Freedom Foundation Versus Jesus Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93907\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-93907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jesus-Candy-on-base-exchange-shelf-photo-by-Military-Religious-Freedom-Foundation-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jesus-Candy-on-base-exchange-shelf-photo-by-Military-Religious-Freedom-Foundation-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jesus-Candy-on-base-exchange-shelf-photo-by-Military-Religious-Freedom-Foundation-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jesus-Candy-on-base-exchange-shelf-photo-by-Military-Religious-Freedom-Foundation-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jesus-Candy-on-base-exchange-shelf-photo-by-Military-Religious-Freedom-Foundation.jpg 1862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Jesus Candy for sale sitting on base exchange shelf. (Military Religious Freedom Foundation)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, received notification that an Air Force base exchange was selling Jesus Candy. He argues that this is an attack on religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>How is it an attack on religious freedom? Are these candies going to prevent people from attending their own religious services, or observing their religious requirements and celebrations?<\/p>\n<p>A basic concept of &#8220;separation of church and state&#8221; entails that the church runs church affairs, and the state runs state affairs. The church does not dictate to the state how to conduct civil affairs. The state does not dictate to the church how to conduct spiritual affairs. This was an argument advanced by Christian monks long before the founding fathers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Selling Jesus-themed candies on an Air Force base is just one example of religious freedom in the U.S. being &#8220;under constant attack,&#8221; according to a watchdog group.<\/p>\n<p>Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) founder and president Mikey Weinstein is furiously calling out the Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., for offering such products at its shop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Peterson Air Force Base, located deep in the intolerant, fundamentalist Christian enclave of Colorado Springs, Colorado, has consistently been one of the most horrendous military installation abusers of the Constitutional mandate to NOT establish Christianity (or any other faith or even &#8216;non-faith&#8217;) as the de facto armed forces State Religion,&#8221; Weinstein told Crooks and Liars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The base exchange decided to sell this candy. If they are still selling it, there is a good chance that they are making money from it. The free market, and not the church, drove this decision.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News has an article on this event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/jesus-candy-on-military-base-violates-religious-freedom-group-claims\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, received notification that an Air Force base &hellip; <a title=\"Military Religious Freedom Foundation Versus Jesus Candy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=93899\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military Religious Freedom Foundation Versus Jesus Candy<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93908,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93899\/revisions\/93908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}