{"id":17933,"date":"2012-05-30T01:25:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T04:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17933"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:29:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:29:11","slug":"usafa-graduates-first-open-homosexuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/usafa-graduates-first-open-homosexuals\/","title":{"rendered":"USAFA Graduates First Open Homosexuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ABCNews article noted the US Air Force Academy recently graduated its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/05\/air-force-academy-graduates-first-openly-gay-cadets\/\">first openly gay cadets<\/a>,&#8221; though it might have misspoken when\u00a0it did so:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The LGBT students couldn\u2019t be picked out of the crowd of white and blue. But gay and lesbian advocates, academy alums, school officials and current students said they were there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Trish] Heller said her group had connected with at least four members of the class of 2012 receiving diplomas today who had come out <!--more-->publicly as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.\u00a0 There were likely others, but they preferred to keep a\u00a0 low-profile, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oops. Unlike their homosexual peers, &#8220;transgendered&#8221; persons are <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/06\/dadt-repeal-plan-covers-religion-chaplains-transsexuals\/\">banned from military service<\/a>, so if there really were LGB<strong><em>T<\/em><\/strong> graduates, and members of the cadet wing who came out as &#8220;transgender&#8221; received their diplomas, then they did so in violation of military policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ABCNews article noted the US Air Force Academy recently graduated its &#8220;first openly gay cadets,&#8221; though it might have misspoken when\u00a0it did so: The LGBT students couldn\u2019t be picked out of the crowd of white and blue. But gay and lesbian advocates, academy alums, school officials and current students said they were there&#8230; [Trish] Heller said her group had [&#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":[219,442,2,3296,65],"class_list":["post-17933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-trish-heller","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17933","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=17933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}