The Stars and Stripes covered a ‘drag fundraiser’ held at Kadena Air Base, Japan:

Servicemembers here may have been the first to take to the stage and perform as drag queens on a military installation in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender troops…

Six servicemembers — gay, lesbian and straight — donned heavy makeup to dance and lip sync songs…

(The previous drag show on a military base apparently did not include military members.)  Navy Lt. Marissa Greene, who helps lead the local chapter of the homosexual advocacy OutServe-SLDN at Kadena, reported she’d hoped to sell 75 tickets — and ended up selling 400.

It is a leap to assume that all 400 people were in “support” of the OutServe cause — just as it is a leap to assume that all the sailors who voted for a lesbian kiss did so for similar “noble” reasons. It is notable, however.

Interestingly, even homosexual advocates — including the SLDN that the group represents — acknowledge that cross-dressing could result in official sanction from the military. From the OutServe site:

As a practical matter, any “cross-dressing” or perceived “cross-dressing”…will most likely be considered by the military to be a violation of regulations and result in discipline or criminal prosecution.

Consider Cpl Klinger from M*A*S*H.

Meanwhile, servicemembers who, in a much more low-key way than a drag show, express a basic tenet of their religious faith — that homosexuality is a sin — are reportedly threatened with reprimand or denial of enlistment.

That generates perceptions about what is to be “celebrated” and what is to be denounced.  How then shall we live?

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
– Romans 1:16

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