{"id":19169,"date":"2012-08-23T01:30:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T04:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19169"},"modified":"2013-11-01T23:12:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T02:12:55","slug":"military-homosexuals-denigrate-army-in-rally-for-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/23\/military-homosexuals-denigrate-army-in-rally-for-publicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Homosexuals Denigrate Army in Rally for Publicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As framed by a self-described member of the military &#8220;LGBT community&#8221; (a moniker that technically includes violators of military regs, since the &#8220;T&#8221; is banned from military service) took to the internet after an affront by Army Public Affairs.\u00a0 CW2 &#8220;Tania D&#8221; sent a message to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=272357889536998&amp;set=a.192270474212407.34793.192269477545840&amp;type=1\">Have a Gay Day<\/a>,&#8221; asking them to promote a photo that was presumably &#8216;censored&#8217; due to &#8220;discrimination:&#8221;\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I need your help. I am trying to get a photo circulated. The photo is of two women kissing goodbye, prior to a deployment to Afghanistan. The Soldier who took the photograph was not allowed to use the picture in her article for the Fort Stewart newspaper, because it shows two women. A year after DADT, LGBT service members, and all of us in the LGBT community are still facing discrimination.\u00a0 Will you please share this picture on your page? I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you for your time and consideration.<\/p>\n<p>CW2 Tania D.<br \/>\nUnited States Army<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For what its worth, the story the photo presumably went with seems to have done just fine without it.<\/p>\n<p>Photos are approved, or not, for any of a variety of reasons.\u00a0 It is possible &#8212; even likely &#8212; that a Public Affairs Officer wanting to avoid the picture <em>becoming <\/em>the story (rather than <em>supporting <\/em>it) would choose another picture.\u00a0 All you have to do is look back to the rampant publicity over the other two homosexual military pictures published (in the <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.nydailynews.com\/2012-02-27\/news\/31105894_1_locking-lips-gay-men-and-women-gay-veteran\">Marines<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/nationnow\/2011\/12\/a-public-embrace-between-two-female-sailors-from-california-is-being-hailed-as-the-kiss-heard-round-the-world-by-activists-wh.html\">Navy<\/a>) &#8212; which clearly drew the focus to the <em>pictures<\/em>, not the story.<\/p>\n<p>It is notable, too, that these\u00a0accusations of illegal conduct by the Army are being spread through homosexual advocacy organizations, complete with servicemembers&#8217; ranks and service used to support their allegations.\u00a0 The fact that it isn&#8217;t &#8220;discrimination&#8221; is surely a minor detail. (For what its worth, the picture was &#8220;shared&#8221; by military atheists, some of whom have a similar habit of denigrating the military in while shilling for publicity.)<\/p>\n<p>Public reaction?\u00a0 Noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As framed by a self-described member of the military &#8220;LGBT community&#8221; (a moniker that technically includes violators of military regs, since the &#8220;T&#8221; is banned from military service) took to the internet after an affront by Army Public Affairs.\u00a0 CW2 &#8220;Tania D&#8221; sent a message to &#8220;Have a Gay Day,&#8221; asking them to promote a photo that was presumably &#8216;censored&#8217; [&#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":[58,88,3512,219,442,3109,2,3513],"class_list":["post-19169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-cw2-tania-d","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-lgbtqa","tag-military","tag-public-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19169","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=19169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}