{"id":29460,"date":"2014-07-01T00:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T03:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29460"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:25:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:25:33","slug":"air-force-commander-on-lgbt-pride-exactly-what-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/01\/air-force-commander-on-lgbt-pride-exactly-what-we-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Commander on LGBT Pride: &#8220;Exactly What We Need&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Air Force Base held a homosexual\/transgender &#8220;pride&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/glendale\/2014\/06\/25\/luke-afb-holds-first-lgbt-pride-event\/11344273\/\">event last week<\/a>. The base&#8217;s commander, BGen Scott Pleus, said<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is exactly what we needed here today.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article notes that no one had heard &#8220;any negative feedback <!--more-->and did not expect criticism.&#8221;\u00a0 Since &#8220;negative feedback&#8221; and &#8220;criticism&#8221; have been met by <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/commander-troops-ordered-not-to-have-opinion-on-dadt\/\">official sanction<\/a> in the military, silence should not be unexpected.\u00a0 The interesting assumption, though, is that silence confers agreement.<\/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>Luke Air Force Base held a homosexual\/transgender &#8220;pride&#8221; event last week. The base&#8217;s commander, BGen Scott Pleus, said &#8220;This is exactly what we needed here today.&#8221; The article notes that no one had heard &#8220;any negative feedback<\/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":[219,442,4062,2,10,171,4827],"class_list":["post-29460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-luke-afb","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-scott-pleus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29460","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=29460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}