{"id":16829,"date":"2012-03-15T00:45:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T03:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16829"},"modified":"2013-10-27T23:11:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T02:11:48","slug":"stripes-letter-to-editor-over-homosexual-kiss-raises-ire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/stripes-letter-to-editor-over-homosexual-kiss-raises-ire\/","title":{"rendered":"Stripes Letter to Editor over Homosexual Kiss Raises Ire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Master Sgt. Corey Wade of Kandahar, Afghanistan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/photo-of-gay-kiss-over-the-top-1.170875\">wrote a letter to the editor<\/a> that was published on <em>Stars and Stripes<\/em>.\u00a0 He was objecting to the widely publicized photo of a homosexual male Marine kissing his partner upon his return from deployment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The photo you posted in the March 4 Mideast and Pacific editions with the article \u201cGay Marine\u2019s homecoming kiss gets worldwide notice\u201d is both disgusting and outrageous. It\u2019s bad enough <!--more-->to publish articles that cover the debauchery of homosexuality, but to show that photo crosses the line&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the voices of opposition to homosexuality continue to not be heard by biased media outlets&#8230;As a Christian, it goes against my faith and the clear word of God (for those Christians who disagree, blow the dust off your Bibles and take a read) to practice such an act; it is clearly a sin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Comments on the letter were typical &#8212; he was called a bigot and a homophobe.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the MSgt&#8217;s comments were not only permissible, they were also protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master Sgt. Corey Wade of Kandahar, Afghanistan, wrote a letter to the editor that was published on Stars and Stripes.\u00a0 He was objecting to the widely publicized photo of a homosexual male Marine kissing his partner upon his return from deployment. The photo you posted in the March 4 Mideast and Pacific editions with the article \u201cGay Marine\u2019s homecoming kiss [&#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":[58,96,3070,219,442,2,3071,10,171],"class_list":["post-16829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-christian","tag-corey-wade","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-photo","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16829","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=16829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}