{"id":40156,"date":"2017-03-07T00:25:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T03:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=40156"},"modified":"2017-03-07T03:20:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T06:20:41","slug":"atheist-jason-torpy-equates-nude-photo-sharing-with-straight-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/07\/atheist-jason-torpy-equates-nude-photo-sharing-with-straight-marines\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist Jason Torpy Equates Nude Photo Sharing with Straight Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-37260\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marines-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marines-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marines-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marines-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marines-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marines.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>A scandal broke out this week reporting\u00a0a Facebook page made by and for\u00a0current and former US Marines &#8212; which contained\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2017\/03\/05\/im-never-reenlisting-marine-corps-rocked-by-nude-photo-scandal\/?utm_term=.1a013fd00ccc\">naked and compromising<\/a>&#8221; photos of (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/dod-launches-investigation-into-marines-nude-photo-scandal-1.457254\">presumably female<\/a>) Marines, some of whom may not have been aware their photos were being used.<\/p>\n<p>This is hardly the first such gender-based scandal in the Navy and Marine Corps, much less the military as a whole. Just recently, the Navy was embarrassed when its early voyages of females on submarines experienced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/story\/military\/crime\/2015\/06\/03\/navy-submarine-wyoming-shower-video-guilty\/28402643\/\">similar photo-taking crime<\/a>, and hardly a cruise goes by without a US Navy Sailor being sent home because <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/03\/01\/exclusive-deployed-us-navy-has-a-pregnancy-problem-and-its-getting-worse\/\">she\u00a0got pregnant while deployed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday atheist and former US Army Captain Jason Torpy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jasontorpy\/posts\/10154928145166745?pnref=story\">took to Facebook<\/a> in response to this latest scandal to say men need to &#8220;police their own&#8221; &#8212; but not just &#8220;men&#8221; [emphasis added]:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40166\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jasontorpy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jasontorpy1.jpg 615w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jasontorpy1-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>waiting for <strong>anti-gay, anti-trans straight men<\/strong> to police their own<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Torpy will no doubt claim he is an atheist because he believes in evidence over faith &#8212; yet it is his faith, not evidence, which leads him to believe the Marines involved in this scandal are &#8220;anti-gay, anti-trans&#8221;, &#8220;straight&#8221; and &#8212; in Torpy&#8217;s most sexist statement &#8212; <em>men<\/em>. To wit, Torpy does not indicate how he knows the perpetrators are neither homosexual nor women &#8212; he&#8217;s presumably just advancing a sexist gender-based stereotype.<\/p>\n<p>So much for\u00a0Torpy&#8217;s support for &#8220;equality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note many\u00a0who oppose the social normalization and military integration <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33629 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/torpy-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/torpy-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/torpy.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/>of homosexuality and transgenderism have done so on religious grounds. Whether you agree with it or not, that opposition is often based on religious beliefs that such sexual practices are a perversion of God&#8217;s intent for mankind.<\/p>\n<p>Very briefly,\u00a0most such religious beliefs would consider sexual activity of <em>any sort<\/em> outside the marriage of a man and woman to be deviant or a perversion of God&#8217;s design &#8212; a design built as a reflection of the relationship between God and His church, leaving no room for the maltreatment or disrespect often evident between men and women in the culture today.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, troops with those beliefs &#8212; beliefs Torpy would characterize as &#8220;anti-gay, anti-trans&#8221; &#8212; would just as strongly say\u00a0the treatment of the female Marines and the publication of such photos were similarly perverse and deviant. It is entirely <em>consistent<\/em> with the principled stand they&#8217;ve taken over the years &#8212; a moral stand that equally applies to the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism (and polygamy, and bestiality, and pedophilia, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>(By contrast, many supporters of homosexuality and transgenderism have a more situational ethic. For example, many neo-sexual activists <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2012\/06\/07\/homosexuals-christians-agree-on-opposition-to-plural-marriage\/\">still oppose polygamy<\/a>, for no other apparent reason than they find it &#8220;icky.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to Jason Torpy&#8217;s faux self-righteousness, this isn&#8217;t a situation in which &#8220;anti-gay&#8221; Marines need to &#8220;police their own&#8221;.\u00a0 This is a situation in which society and the military culture need to re-engender respect &#8212; respect that might be helped, in some cases, by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2017\/02\/27\/on-christianity-children-transgenders-and-president-trump\/\"><em>respecting<\/em>\u00a0<em>differences<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every human being knows that there are important, and necessary, differences between men and women. Without such recognition, <strong>women are harmed and men are coarsened<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the end, atheist Jason Torpy tried to take a dig at (presumably religious) opposition to other-sexuality, and instead just demonstrated his own prejudice and predilection to stereotype. The religious troops he would characterize as &#8220;anti-gay,&#8221; etc.,\u00a0are the ones trying to foster a <em>continuous<\/em> environment of respect. That Torpy disagrees with the source of their beliefs &#8212; their support for the God-given institution of marriage &#8212; does not undermine the value of the culture they seek to instill.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps some day atheists and militant secularists will finally acknowledge the Bible has some significant truths, even if they don&#8217;t necessarily <em>like<\/em> those truths.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, society &#8212; and the military &#8212; will likely continue to suffer the consequences of ignoring those truths.<\/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>A scandal broke out this week reporting\u00a0a Facebook page made by and for\u00a0current and former US Marines &#8212; which contained\u00a0&#8220;naked and compromising&#8221; photos of (presumably female) Marines, some of whom may not have been aware their photos were being used. 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