{"id":13043,"date":"2011-09-09T02:30:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T07:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13043"},"modified":"2013-10-18T22:37:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T01:37:11","slug":"dadt-the-ethical-and-moral-foundation-of-the-us-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/09\/dadt-the-ethical-and-moral-foundation-of-the-us-army\/","title":{"rendered":"DADT: The Ethical and Moral Foundation of the US Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Army has been continuing to brief its basic trainees<\/a> on the upcoming permissible service by open homosexuals.<\/p>\n

At Fort Jackson…Capt. Guy Allsup…recently walked 231 nervous basic training recruits through scenarios…<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes anybody think that this is going to be a drastic change for deployed soldiers?\u201d Allsup called out to the group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ignore the paradox of an officer asking new recruits if things will “change.”\u00a0 The trainees’ answer:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, sir,\u201d they yelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone give me a reason why not,\u201d Allsup said.<\/p>\n

Pvt. Umberto Werner, 18, of Fayetteville, Ga., stood at attention. He looked straight ahead, clutching his M-16.<\/p>\n

\u201cSexual orientation has nothing to do with our mission, sir,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll buy that,\u201d replied Allsup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Capt Allsup can certainly “buy that,” it remains questionable whether that is a position the Army should be in the position of teaching<\/em>.\u00a0 It is, after all, a moral position inconsistent with the beliefs (religious or not) or many servicemembers.\u00a0 The article even revisits that point:<\/p>\n

Of all services, the Marine Corps has least welcomed the repeal. In the survey, nearly 60 percent of Marine respondents said their unit\u2019s effectiveness \u201cin a field environment or out at sea\u201d would be negatively affected by repeal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The military’s “training” has specifically said it was not out to change beliefs or personal morals<\/a>.\u00a0 The original concept of repeal was that homosexuals would be allowed to serve — and the military would not take a position for or against homosexuality itself.\u00a0 Increasingly, conversations like these with trainees seem to contradict that\u00a0portrayal, though the tacit support of homosexuality\u00a0was not unforeseeable by those who opposed\u00a0repeal.<\/p>\n

When the repeal, which was supposed to be a “nonevent,” still elicited questions about resigning from the military (even from these ‘more enlightened’ younger-generation recruits), Capt Allsup presented an interesting perspective:<\/p>\n

Allsup told the recruits…they signed up to accept the ethical and moral foundation that governs the Army.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, what foundation would that <\/em>be?\u00a0 And what of the assertion that no one would have to alter their moral beliefs in the face of repeal?<\/p>\n

Its a fascinating characterization for a society intent on allowing open homosexuality precisely because it cannot “impose morality.”<\/p>\n

And it is hardly the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Army has been continuing to brief its basic trainees on the upcoming permissible service by open homosexuals. At Fort Jackson…Capt. Guy Allsup…recently walked 231 nervous basic training recruits through scenarios… \u201cDoes anybody think that this is going to be a drastic change for deployed soldiers?\u201d Allsup called out to the group. Ignore the paradox of an officer asking new […]<\/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":[88,219,434,2187,442,2,10,171,2188],"class_list":["post-13043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-dadt","tag-fort-jackson","tag-guy-allsup","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-umberto-werner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043","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=13043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}