{"id":48799,"date":"2015-03-11T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/navy_times_a_former_chaplain_to_elite_navy_seal_units_may_be_discharged_for\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:30:06","slug":"navy_times_a_former_chaplain_to_elite_navy_seal_units_may_be_discharged_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48799","title":{"rendered":"(Navy Times) A former chaplain to elite Navy SEAL units may be discharged for being &#39;intolerant&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Les] Modder&#8217;s 19 years of service includes many glowing fitness reports. He spent several years providing spiritual counsel to Navy SEALS, and in December received a letter of commendation from the head of the Navy Special Warfare Command, who called Modder the &#8220;best of the best&#8221; and a &#8220;talented and inspirational leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Modder&#8217;s Liberty Institute attorney, Michael Berry, said the effort to fire him reflects a broader cultural change in the military.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think what we are seeing is a hostility to religious expression in the military now,&#8221; Berry said. &#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing is this new modern, pluralistic, Navy where service members are encouraged to be hypersensitive, especially about issues of faith, marriage and family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/story\/military\/2015\/03\/10\/chaplain-fired\/24699275\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Les] Modder&#8217;s 19 years of service includes many glowing fitness reports. He spent several years providing spiritual counsel to Navy SEALS, and in December received a letter of commendation from the head of the Navy Special Warfare Command, who called<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48799\">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":[48,39,40,50,54,209,143,168,435,184,177,151,108,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48799","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=48799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}