{"id":14986,"date":"2011-12-27T00:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T03:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14986"},"modified":"2013-10-18T22:40:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T01:40:31","slug":"pfc-bradley-mannings-defense-may-offend-homosexuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/pfc-bradley-mannings-defense-may-offend-homosexuals\/","title":{"rendered":"PFC Bradley Manning’s Defense May Offend Homosexuals"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few articles have begun to take umbrage<\/a> at the apparent planned defense<\/a> of accused Wikileaker PFC Bradley Manning:\u00a0 In essence, the nation’s worst release of classified information was the fault of the US military <\/em>— not Manning.\u00a0 The military was the one who allowed him to keep his clearance despite knowing he had ‘issues’ with his sexuality.<\/p>\n

Manning\u2019s lawyers argued his superiors failed to address his struggles with gender-identity disorder…<\/p>\n

The defense team says Manning was nearly paralyzed by internal struggles over his belief that he was a woman trapped in a man\u2019s body. They say his chain of command failed to suspend his access to classified data despite clear signs of emotional distress…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That defense, of course, would likely be the first time someone personally <\/em>claimed some form of “gender identity disorder” or homosexuality made them unfit for duty.\u00a0(It is not the first time this form of\u00a0defense was at least partially <\/em>used<\/a>, however.)<\/p>\n

Perceptions or accusations of homosexuality were, at one point, potential disqualifiers for higher security clearances.<\/p>\n

The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer was more than happy to agree with the apparent planned defense of Manning’s lawyers, saying\u00a0there is empirical evidence<\/a> homosexuals in the military are\u00a0an “increased risk to national security.”\u00a0 (Those are attention-getting buzz words;\u00a0Michael Weinstein has used similar\u00a0terms to describe Christians in the military, though he prefers the “national security threat” mantra.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few articles have begun to take umbrage at the apparent planned defense of accused Wikileaker PFC Bradley Manning:\u00a0 In essence, the nation’s worst release of classified information was the fault of the US military — not Manning.\u00a0 The military was the one who allowed him to keep his clearance despite knowing he had ‘issues’ with his sexuality. Manning\u2019s lawyers […]<\/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":[2687,88,729,2686,219,2682,442,85,2],"class_list":["post-14986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-american-family-association","tag-army","tag-bradley-manning","tag-bryan-fischer","tag-dadt","tag-gender-identity-disorder","tag-homosexual","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986","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=14986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}