A scandal broke out this week reporting a Facebook page made by and for current and former US Marines — which contained “naked and compromising” photos of (presumably female) Marines, some of whom may not have been aware their photos were being used.

This is hardly the first such gender-based scandal in the Navy and Marine Corps, much less the military as a whole. Just recently, the Navy was embarrassed when its early voyages of females on submarines experienced a similar photo-taking crime, and hardly a cruise goes by without a US Navy Sailor being sent home because she got pregnant while deployed.

Yesterday atheist and former US Army Captain Jason Torpy took to Facebook in response to this latest scandal to say men need to “police their own” — but not just “men” [emphasis added]: 

waiting for anti-gay, anti-trans straight men to police their own

Torpy will no doubt claim he is an atheist because he believes in evidence over faith — yet it is his faith, not evidence, which leads him to believe the Marines involved in this scandal are “anti-gay, anti-trans”, “straight” and — in Torpy’s most sexist statement — men. To wit, Torpy does not indicate how he knows the perpetrators are neither homosexual nor women — he’s presumably just advancing a sexist gender-based stereotype.

So much for Torpy’s support for “equality.”

It’s important to note many who oppose the social normalization and military integration of homosexuality and transgenderism have done so on religious grounds. Whether you agree with it or not, that opposition is often based on religious beliefs that such sexual practices are a perversion of God’s intent for mankind.

Very briefly, most such religious beliefs would consider sexual activity of any sort outside the marriage of a man and woman to be deviant or a perversion of God’s design — a design built as a reflection of the relationship between God and His church, leaving no room for the maltreatment or disrespect often evident between men and women in the culture today.

In other words, troops with those beliefs — beliefs Torpy would characterize as “anti-gay, anti-trans” — would just as strongly say the treatment of the female Marines and the publication of such photos were similarly perverse and deviant. It is entirely consistent with the principled stand they’ve taken over the years — a moral stand that equally applies to the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism (and polygamy, and bestiality, and pedophilia, etc.).

(By contrast, many supporters of homosexuality and transgenderism have a more situational ethic. For example, many neo-sexual activists still oppose polygamy, for no other apparent reason than they find it “icky.”)

Contrary to Jason Torpy’s faux self-righteousness, this isn’t a situation in which “anti-gay” Marines need to “police their own”.  This is a situation in which society and the military culture need to re-engender respect — respect that might be helped, in some cases, by respecting differences.

Every human being knows that there are important, and necessary, differences between men and women. Without such recognition, women are harmed and men are coarsened…

In the end, atheist Jason Torpy tried to take a dig at (presumably religious) opposition to other-sexuality, and instead just demonstrated his own prejudice and predilection to stereotype. The religious troops he would characterize as “anti-gay,” etc., are the ones trying to foster a continuous environment of respect. That Torpy disagrees with the source of their beliefs — their support for the God-given institution of marriage — does not undermine the value of the culture they seek to instill.

Perhaps some day atheists and militant secularists will finally acknowledge the Bible has some significant truths, even if they don’t necessarily like those truths.

Until then, society — and the military — will likely continue to suffer the consequences of ignoring those truths.

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