{"id":29746,"date":"2014-08-25T00:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T03:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29746"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:17:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:17:29","slug":"navy-christens-first-ship-for-homosexual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/25\/navy-christens-first-ship-for-homosexual\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Christens First Ship for Homosexual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/17\/us-navy-names-first-ship-for-homosexual\/\">announced last year<\/a>, the US Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/releases\/release.aspx?releaseid=16872\">recently christened<\/a> a research vessel for late astronaut Sally Ride.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Navy [christened] the Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) R\/V Sally Ride (AGOR 28) Saturday, Aug. 9, during a ceremony held at the Port of Anacortes Transit Shed in Anacortes, Washington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There had previously been a push to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/uss-harvey-milk-gets-unlikely-foes\/\">name a vessel for Harvey Milk<\/a>, which was opposed even by some homosexuals. Ride at least had credentials to justify the honor.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/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>As announced last year, the US Navy recently christened a research vessel for late astronaut Sally Ride. The Navy [christened] the Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) R\/V Sally Ride (AGOR 28) Saturday, Aug. 9, during a ceremony held at the Port of Anacortes Transit Shed in Anacortes, Washington. There had previously been a push to name a vessel for Harvey [&#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":[219,3201,442,2,36,3970],"class_list":["post-29746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-harvey-milk","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-sally-ride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29746","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=29746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}