{"id":40760,"date":"2017-05-04T00:15:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T03:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=40760"},"modified":"2017-05-04T00:42:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T03:42:42","slug":"army-nominee-mark-green-faces-homosexual-movements-religious-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/army-nominee-mark-green-faces-homosexual-movements-religious-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Nominee Mark Green Faces Homosexual Movement&#8217;s Religious Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40737\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/markgreen2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/markgreen2.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/markgreen2-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/markgreen2-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If critics can stop Mark Green from serving because of his Christian beliefs &#8212; will they next target Christians <em>already<\/em> serving\u00a0in the military?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2017\/04\/24\/homosexual-activists-target-army-secretary-nominee-mark-green-because-hes-christian\/\">Opponents of Mark Green<\/a>, President Trump&#8217;s nominee for Secretary of the Army, have been piling on for the past couple of days and have now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/lgbt-military-group-organizing-campaign-against-trumps-army-pick\/article\/2621918\">solidified<\/a> on arguing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/02\/politics\/mark-green-army-secretary-nomination\/\">about <em>when<\/em><\/a> &#8212; not <em>if<\/em> &#8212; Green will withdraw from consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Green is in a similar position to many Christians in this country. It is politically palatable to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2017\/04\/26\/update-homosexual-activists-rickroll-internet-in-attack-on-mark-green\/\">misrepresent<\/a>, caricature, and attack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/progressivesecularhumanist\/2017\/05\/trump-pick-army-secretary-denies-evolution-promotes-creationism\/\">his beliefs<\/a> &#8212; and there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/army\/mccain-army-secretary-nominee-s-past-comments-very-concerning-1.466419\">entire organizations<\/a> built around the advocacy of sexual behavior more than willing to oppose him being allowed to serve\u00a0in government. Ashley Broadway&#8217;s <!--more-->homosexual activist AMPA is just one, repeatedly calling on its followers to &#8220;call your Senator!&#8221; to oppose Green.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, there are no organizations doing the same in <em>defense<\/em> of Green, at least publicly.\u00a0 (Fortunately, calls by members of the US military to Congress are protected communications.)<\/p>\n<p>As was said previously, Mark Green\u2019s nomination is a test of sorts for the homosexual community.<\/p>\n<p>Do homosexuals <em>really<\/em> care only if you can \u201cshoot straight\u201d?\u00a0Is their loyalty greatest to their sexual community, or to the US Constitution?<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of US troops share the same values as Mark Green, yet no one bats an eye when Broadway or those like her declare Green&#8217;s beliefs &#8220;dangerous&#8221; or a tragedy for the US military. They are free to denigrate Christian US troops from their position of protected privilege &#8212; because some apparently believe their sexuality trumps religious liberty.<\/p>\n<p>If the homosexual movement can successfully prevent a man from serving as Secretary of the Army because his religious beliefs make him &#8220;unfit&#8221;, as they are attempting to do, how long will it be before they say the same thing about <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2017\/05\/01\/activists-call-us-troops-a-threat-to-the-military-in-attacks-on-mark-green\/\">every potential US service member<\/a>: Christians need not apply?<\/p>\n<p>Homosexual activists\u00a0are proposing the ultimate religious test for government service: If you hold\u00a0Christian beliefs, you may not serve &#8212; Article VI of the US Constitution notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<p>Ironic, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>May God bless Mark Green and the men and women like him who would serve their country. God knows America needs them.<\/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>If critics can stop Mark Green from serving because of his Christian beliefs &#8212; will they next target Christians already serving\u00a0in the military? Opponents of Mark Green, President Trump&#8217;s nominee for Secretary of the Army, have been piling on for the past couple of days and have now solidified on arguing about when &#8212; not if &#8212; Green will withdraw [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3793,4794,88,3792,96,82,3546,442,6212,2,3549,5587,3475],"class_list":["post-40760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-american-military-partner-association","tag-ampa","tag-army","tag-ashley-broadway","tag-christian","tag-constitution","tag-donald-trump","tag-homosexual","tag-mark-green","tag-military","tag-religious-test","tag-secretary-of-the-army","tag-tolerance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40760","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=40760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}