{"id":11818,"date":"2011-07-13T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11818"},"modified":"2013-10-09T00:02:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T03:02:43","slug":"obama-appoints-homosexual-veteran-to-west-point-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/obama-appoints-homosexual-veteran-to-west-point-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Appoints Homosexual Veteran to West Point Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Wall Street Journal <\/em>noted President Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2011\/07\/05\/obama-names-openly-gay-veteran-to-west-point-advisory-board\/\">appointed openly homosexual<\/a> Army veteran Brenda &#8220;Sue&#8221; Fulton to the US Military Academy (West Point) Advisory Board.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton is USMA Class of 1980, the first West Point class to include women. She is also part of the Forum on the Military Chaplaincy, an activist organization toward DADT repeal.\u00a0 Another member of\u00a0the &#8220;forum,&#8221; retired Navy Chaplain (CAPT) John\u00a0Gundlach, recently called military <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/01\/dadt-house-defense-bill-colonels-punished-lawsuit-and-more\/\">members&#8217; religious opposition to\u00a0repeal &#8220;bigotry.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The WSJ notes her appointment puts\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the first openly gay or lesbian person onto the board that advises him on West Point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While interesting in the light of DADT in the news, it is hardly novel.\u00a0 Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) was appointed to the USAFA Advisory Board in 2009 by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).\u00a0 Polis is not only openly homosexual, but he also suggested USAFA intentionally <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/dadt-gay-dating-at-usafa-amos-on-marine-moral-compass-more\/\">hire homosexual Chaplains and encourage gay dating<\/a>.\u00a0 (In a coincidence of timing, the USAFA Board of Visitors is scheduled to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123263657\">meet next week<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancealert.org\/2011\/07\/06\/obama-names-homosexual-activist-to-west-point-advisory-board\/\">the ADF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal noted President Barack Obama appointed openly homosexual Army veteran Brenda &#8220;Sue&#8221; Fulton to the US Military Academy (West Point) Advisory Board. Fulton is USMA Class of 1980, the first West Point class to include women. She is also part of the Forum on the Military Chaplaincy, an activist organization toward DADT repeal.\u00a0 Another member of\u00a0the &#8220;forum,&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,1905,5284,78,219,442,1906,1818,2,1426,43,65,231,101],"class_list":["post-11818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-brenda-sue-fulton","tag-chaplain","tag-congress","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-jared-polis","tag-john-gundlach","tag-military","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-obama","tag-usafa","tag-usma","tag-west-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}