{"id":34307,"date":"2015-12-30T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T03:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=34307"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:20:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:20:53","slug":"cruz-all-is-not-well-in-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/30\/cruz-all-is-not-well-in-us-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz: All is Not Well in US Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many have claimed that the US military has been wholly unaffected by the repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell, Senator and Presidential candidate Ted Cruz seems to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/blog\/michael-w-chapman\/cruz-obama-more-interested-promoting-homosexuality-military-he-defeating-our\">have a different opinion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Morale in the U.S. military has \u201cplummeted\u201d in recent years because President Barack Obama \u201cdoesn\u2019t support our soldiers,\u201d won\u2019t even name the enemy \u201cradical Islamic terrorism,\u201d and is \u201cmore interested in promoting homosexuality in the military\u201d than <!--more-->in \u201cdefeating our enemy,\u201d said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, for example,\u201d he added, \u201cthe military is now focused on trying to promote transgender soldiers. The role of the military is not to be some left-wing social experiment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The belief that certain changes to the military culture, including the open acceptance of homosexuality, have had absolutely zero effect on the military is not universal.<\/p>\n<p>While opponents of DADT repeal were scoffed as Chicken Littles, the effect of such cultural changes takes time, and those chickens may yet come home to roost.<\/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>While many have claimed that the US military has been wholly unaffected by the repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell, Senator and Presidential candidate Ted Cruz seems to have a different opinion: Morale in the U.S. military has \u201cplummeted\u201d in recent years because President Barack Obama \u201cdoesn\u2019t support our soldiers,\u201d won\u2019t even name the enemy \u201cradical Islamic terrorism,\u201d and is [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[219,442,44,2,4036,1278],"class_list":["post-34307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-ted-cruz","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34307","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=34307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}