{"id":21341,"date":"2013-02-06T02:31:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T05:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=21341"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:53:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:53:05","slug":"perkins-links-military-stress-dadt-attacks-on-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/perkins-links-military-stress-dadt-attacks-on-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Perkins Links Military Stress, DADT, Attacks on Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.com\/_news\/2013\/01\/31\/16793878-perkins-links-dadt-military-suicides\">Several critics<\/a> have lambasted Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/tony-perkins-links-military-suicide-rate-repeal-dont-ask-dont-tell\">allegedly linking<\/a> the repeal of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; to the military&#8217;s suicide rate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The stress in our military, when you look how they have used the military for their social experimentation: driving Christianity out, putting homosexuality in, suicide rate going through the ceiling&#8230;And what are they doing? Adding additional stress by this social engineering. Unbelievable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is no demonstrable link that repealing DADT directly contributed to suicide &#8212; and Perkins didn&#8217;t say there was.\u00a0 What he described was <!--more-->a set of environmental conditions symptomatic of the military culture &#8212; one similarly characterized by an epidemic of suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Rightly or wrongly, some have <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/the-us-military-religion-and-hypersensitivity\/\">developed the perception<\/a> that the US military has become &#8220;hostile&#8221; to Christianity.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0military now officially accepts homosexuality &#8212; a position which similarly conflicts with most major religions, including Christianity.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the military struggles with the epidemic of suicide &#8212; something, quite honestly, Christianity is uniquely equipped to address, were the environment supportive.\u00a0 Perkins&#8217; statement is not baseless.<\/p>\n<p>The fact there is &#8220;shock&#8221; that someone would connect normalization of homosexuality and ills in the culture is indicative of how far society has fallen in just a few short years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several critics have lambasted Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, for allegedly linking the repeal of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; to the military&#8217;s suicide rate: The stress in our military, when you look how they have used the military for their social experimentation: driving Christianity out, putting homosexuality in, suicide rate going through the ceiling&#8230;And what are they [&#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":[96,219,1146,442,2,917,239],"class_list":["post-21341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-dadt","tag-family-research-council","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-suicide","tag-tony-perkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341","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=21341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}