{"id":35977,"date":"2016-08-18T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=35977"},"modified":"2016-08-18T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T17:23:14","slug":"air-force-officer-faces-investigation-over-bible-on-his-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/air-force-officer-faces-investigation-over-bible-on-his-desk.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Air Force officer faces investigation over Bible on his desk&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35978\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Cheyenne_Mountain_viewed_from_Colorado_Springs_July_2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35978\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35978\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Cheyenne_Mountain_viewed_from_Colorado_Springs_July_2016.jpg\" alt=\"Where the AF Academy is, and Peterson AFB\" width=\"596\" height=\"397\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Colorado Springs, epicenter of this threat to the American way of life<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m wondering whether this complaint is as ludicrous as it sounds, or whether there\u2019s more to the story:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2016\/08\/17\/air-force-officer-faces-investigation-over-bible-on-his-desk.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2016\/08\/17\/air-force-officer-faces-investigation-over-bible-on-his-desk.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not overly impressed by the argument that the desk is government property. \u00a0Do those who\u2019re complaining think that Major Lewis should also be prohibited from, say, placing photos of his family or his dog on it? \u00a0Or symbols of his favorite baseball team?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Oslo, Norway<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019m wondering whether this complaint is as ludicrous as it sounds, or whether there\u2019s more to the story: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2016\/08\/17\/air-force-officer-faces-investigation-over-bible-on-his-desk.html \u00a0 I\u2019m not overly impressed by the argument that the desk is government property. \u00a0Do those who\u2019re complaining think that Major Lewis should also be prohibited from, say, placing photos of his family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Air Force officer faces investigation over Bible on his desk&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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