{"id":43108,"date":"2014-03-17T22:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_uniform_rule_may_keep_religious_americans_from_military_service\/"},"modified":"2014-03-17T22:00:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T22:00:47","slug":"npr_uniform_rule_may_keep_religious_americans_from_military_service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43108","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Uniform Rule May Keep Religious Americans From Military Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, 105 lawmakers from both parties sent to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, urging him to change a relatively obscure uniform requirement for the U.S. armed forces that some argue infringes on religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>People who observe religions that require specific hair or dress traditions have to seek an accommodation from a superior to break the Defense Department&#8217;s uniform requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kamal Kalsi was the first observant Sikh to apply for the accommodation since the rule took effect in the 1980s. As a devout Sikh, Kalsi doesn&#8217;t cut his hair. He wraps his hair up in a turban and doesn&#8217;t shave his beard. Keeping his hair long is an obligatory article of his Sikh faith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/03\/16\/290685099\/uniform-rule-may-keep-religious-americans-from-military-service\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, 105 lawmakers from both parties sent to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, urging him to change a relatively obscure uniform requirement for the U.S. armed forces that some argue infringes on religious beliefs. People who observe religions that require<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43108\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,143,106,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-military-armed-forces","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}