{"id":30908,"date":"2015-02-10T00:45:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T03:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30908"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:37:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:37:46","slug":"summary-of-secdefs-career-starts-with-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/10\/summary-of-secdefs-career-starts-with-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Summary of SecDef&#8217;s Career Starts with Homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Parrish of the DoD News wrote a fairly lengthy article summarizing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=128053\">highlights of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel&#8217;s career<\/a>. It&#8217;s the kind of article one expects to read at someone&#8217;s retirement, though Hagel won&#8217;t technically leave office until his successor is appointed.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, a nearly 2,000-word summary of Secretary Hagel&#8217;s tenure &#8212; which spans significant developments in the DoD budget, wars, and more &#8212; begins with homosexuality:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel led the Defense Department through fundamental changes during his tenure of almost two years.<\/p>\n<p>Since being sworn in on Feb. 27, 2013, Hagel shepherded internal reforms and defended against new and rapidly evolving external threats. He welcomed same-sex couples into the ranks <!--more-->and continued the work to open combat arms jobs to women&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, religious liberty in the US military is no where mentioned in the article, though military religious freedom was the subject of congressional law each year of Secretary Hagel&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>People may not get to choose their legacy. It seems there is a portion of society that considers the open service of homosexuals in the US military a pinnacle event of both society and Secretary Hagel&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>What do <em>you<\/em> want to be known for?<\/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>Karen Parrish of the DoD News wrote a fairly lengthy article summarizing the highlights of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel&#8217;s career. It&#8217;s the kind of article one expects to read at someone&#8217;s retirement, though Hagel won&#8217;t technically leave office until his successor is appointed. Notably, a nearly 2,000-word summary of Secretary Hagel&#8217;s tenure &#8212; which spans significant developments in the [&#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":[3856,219,442,5031,2,10,171,1180],"class_list":["post-30908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chuck-hagel","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-karen-parrish","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-secretary-of-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30908","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=30908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}