{"id":17077,"date":"2012-04-03T00:40:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T03:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17077"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:04:43","slug":"gay-pride-events-held-at-military-academies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/03\/gay-pride-events-held-at-military-academies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Pride Events Held at Military Academies"},"content":{"rendered":"

It isn’t the first time<\/a> homosexual groups have gathered together to celebrate their…sexuality?…on a military base, but the novelty of their fellowship at US military academies seems to make it newsworthy.\u00a0 CNN begins it article with factual inaccuracies<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For nearly 17 years, gay and lesbian soldiers were expected to deny their sexuality under threat of dismissal as part of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, for “nearly” 200 years, homosexuals were expected not to violate the law by joining<\/em> the US military.\u00a0 If they chose to do so in the past 17 years, it was on them not to admit they were serving illegally.<\/p>\n

The article notes the formation of an “LGBTQA” group at Norwich University, while at West Point the<\/p>\n

club is also called Spectrum and is based on the Coast Guard Academy club. With its approval still pending with the commandant, [West Point Chief of Staff Col Charles] Stafford says cadets would welcome it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The name change may be intentional.\u00a0 After all, anyone who is the “T” in LGBT still faces discharge from the US military<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Norwich University was also hosting<\/a> the Condom Olympics and a Queer Prom.<\/p>\n

No word yet on when the first “Heterosexual Pride” event will be held at a US military academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It isn’t the first time homosexual groups have gathered together to celebrate their…sexuality?…on a military base, but the novelty of their fellowship at US military academies seems to make it newsworthy.\u00a0 CNN begins it article with factual inaccuracies: For nearly 17 years, gay and lesbian soldiers were expected to deny their sexuality under threat of dismissal as part of “don’t […]<\/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":[3111,3112,219,442,3109,2,3110,3113,65,231,101],"class_list":["post-17077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-charles-stafford","tag-condom-olympics","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-lgbtqa","tag-military","tag-norwich-university","tag-queer-prom","tag-usafa","tag-usma","tag-west-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17077","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=17077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}