{"id":22185,"date":"2013-04-17T00:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T03:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22185"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:37:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:37:24","slug":"us-navy-names-first-ship-for-homosexual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/17\/us-navy-names-first-ship-for-homosexual\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Names First Ship for Homosexual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/uss-harvey-milk-gets-unlikely-foes\/\">the idea of a USS <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/uss-harvey-milk-gets-unlikely-foes\/\">Harvey Milk<\/a> <\/em>&#8212; to be named for a homosexual activist &#8212; never left port, a few have already noted the US Navy just decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/releases\/release.aspx?releaseid=15932\">name an upcoming ship<\/a> for a homosexual:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mabus named the future R\/V Sally Ride (AGOR 28), which will be a Neil Armstrong-class AGOR ship, to honor the memory of Sally Ride, a professor, scientist and an innovator at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego.\u00a0 Ride was the first woman and also the youngest person in space.\u00a0 She later served as director of NASA&#8217;s Office of Exploration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following her death on 23 July 2012, Ride&#8217;s obituary was the first public <!--more-->acknowledgement of her homosexuality when it noted<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She is survived by Tam O&#8217;Shaughnessy, her partner of 27 years&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/ride-sk.html\">NASA biography<\/a> now has the same information.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Ride has\u00a0accomplishments and credentials that merit the honor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AGORs are named for nationally recognized leaders in exploration and science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Astronaut Sally Ride was certainly nationally recognized for her leadership in exploration and science; in fact, that is what she is most known for.\u00a0 Her sexuality is irrelevant &#8212; to most people.<\/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>Though the idea of a USS Harvey Milk &#8212; to be named for a homosexual activist &#8212; never left port, a few have already noted the US Navy just decided to name an upcoming ship for a homosexual: Mabus named the future R\/V Sally Ride (AGOR 28), which will be a Neil Armstrong-class AGOR ship, to honor the memory of [&#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":[3201,442,2,21,36,3970,3971],"class_list":["post-22185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-harvey-milk","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-nasa","tag-navy","tag-sally-ride","tag-tam-oshaughnessy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22185","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=22185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}