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We will not lie, steal, or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does.
\n– US Air Force Academy Honor Code<\/p><\/blockquote>\nIntegrity first. Service before self. Excellence in all we do.
\n– US Air Force Core Values<\/p><\/blockquote>\nBGen(S) Kristin Goodwin, soon\u00a0to be the newest\u00a0Commandant of Cadets<\/a> at the US Air Force Academy,\u00a0commissioned into the Air Force with the Academy Class of 1993<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
The policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was instated in February of 1994<\/strong>. Anyone who entered the military prior<\/em> to that date answered a question about homosexuality during the enlistment process. Those who answered in the affirmative were refused enlistment.<\/p>\n
How was Col Goodwin — an open homosexual — able to enter the Air Force?<\/p>\n
This isn’t actually a new\u00a0question.\u00a0 Since the repeal of DADT,\u00a0it has been evident a few senior military leaders who are homosexual\u00a0entered the military prior to 1994. (For the record, their enlistment itself isn’t generally\u00a0questioned, as the statute of limitations on UCMJ Article 83 (Fraudulent Enlistment) has long expired.)<\/p>\n
Ultimately, questions of those prior accessions to military service won’t\u00a0come to much, just as they haven’t since the repeal of DADT. The general<\/em> post-DADT issue will, however, be a fascinating discussion point for the USAFA cadet classes Col Goodwin will oversee — as the cadets practically venerate the Honor Code<\/a> (in spirit, if not in deed).<\/p>\n
No doubt someone will work a hypothetical story into an early Philosophy class, which normally includes the nearly clich\u00e9d\u00a0“is it wrong to steal bread if your children are starving?” or “is it wrong to lie if you were hiding Jews from the Nazis during World War II?” type of discussions.<\/p>\n
It could make for a fascinating\u00a0thought experiment.<\/p>\n
Is it “wrong” to lie to enter the US military — or the Air Force, whose first core value is “integrity”?\u00a0 Is it wrong to “live a lie” as\u00a0a cadet under the Honor Code?<\/p>\n
What if you eventually become a leader, a General, or the Commandant of Cadets — now charged with enforcing<\/em> that standard of integrity and honor?<\/p>\n
If nothing else, the contradictory complexity of\u00a0society’s relativistic morality lends even more support to the need for unchanging, absolute morality — that is, the Truth of Scripture.\u00a0 With some grace for human\u00a0application, you do not have to spend time explaining why what was once<\/em> wrong is now<\/em> right (it’s rarely\u00a0vice versa) if the moral code that serves as your foundation\u00a0does not change.<\/p>\n
And God’s Word doesn’t change.<\/p>\n
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
\nIsaiah 40:8<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\nADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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