{"id":41038,"date":"2017-06-13T00:30:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T03:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=41038"},"modified":"2017-06-13T01:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T04:09:06","slug":"pilots-join-dc-gay-pride-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/pilots-join-dc-gay-pride-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots Join DC Gay Pride Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then someone critiques the idea of there being a &#8220;Christian Fighter Pilot.&#8221; For some (generally non-Christians), it is the perceived\u00a0&#8220;oxymoron&#8221; of being a follower of Christ while simultaneously being a military combatant. Many who are trying to find something to gripe about critique the idea that there needs to be a &#8220;descriptor&#8221; to discriminate about types of fighter pilots. Why not just be fighter pilots?<\/p>\n<p>In fairness, though, Christians haven&#8217;t been the only ones to &#8220;celebrate&#8221; their contribution to the military mission &#8212; or even being a fighter pilot. For example, a few years ago, the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/11\/06\/air-force-chaplains-take-to-the-air\/#comment-169726\">Atheist Fighter Pilot<\/a> made a short-lived showing here, and religious groups and organizations have sprung up for a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2008\/06\/30\/coming-soon-atheistfighterpilotcom\/\">variety of faiths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, pilots can be known for their faith, their lack of faith&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and how they like to have sex.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalpride.org\/celebration-2017\/participants\/\">participants<\/a> in the Capital Pride <!--more-->Parade &#8212; the DC gay extravaganza also supported by the US military &#8212; was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngpa.org\/\">National Gay Pilots Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Because nothing says character, integrity, and competence as an aviator like sex.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-41070 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ngpagaypilot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"94\" \/>If you&#8217;re &#8220;curious,&#8221; the NGPA will help you find an &#8220;LGBT-friendly flight school.&#8221; They&#8217;re vague about what, precisely, that is, though they imply they can help interested parties find a flight instructor that supports their (homosexual) sexual preference.<\/p>\n<p>In so doing, they are blind to their own hypocrisy. If all that matters is that someone be able to fly and\/or instruct well &#8212; that is, they believe sexuality is <em>irrelevant<\/em> &#8212; then why are they trying to make sexuality <em>relevant?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Worse still, they are also blind to their social privilege. If heterosexual men set up a website for finding &#8220;male-friendly flight schools&#8221; &#8212; as defined by their desired method of sexual behavior &#8212; it would be called sexist and one-step shy of an escort service. When homosexuals do it, it&#8217;s &#8220;progressive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A tiny percentage of the American population becomes a pilot, and an even smaller portion is part of the &#8220;gay pilot&#8221; community. The NGPA counts only about 1,100 dues-paying members. Yet this association of pilots &#8212; a group whose raison d&#8217;\u00eatre is sex &#8212; actually has an extensive list of corporate sponsors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>United Airlines, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines<\/li>\n<li>Delta Airlines, EndeavorAir, Piedmont Airlines<\/li>\n<li>GoJet Airlines, Mesa Airlines, PSA Airlines<\/li>\n<li>Skywest Airlines, XOJet, ExpressJet<\/li>\n<li>AOPA<\/li>\n<li>Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University<\/li>\n<li>Epic Flight Academy<\/li>\n<li>ASA<\/li>\n<li>David Clark<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those corporations also sponsor scholarships the NGPA awards. According to the NGPA criteria, to qualify for one of those monetary awards, you have to have done something &#8220;positive&#8221; for the &#8220;LGBT community.&#8221; In other words, you don&#8217;t have to <em>be<\/em> homosexual to receive a scholarship, but you do have to be <em>pro<\/em>-homosexual to get one.<\/p>\n<p>That would seem to discount any Christian, Muslim, most Jews, and probably about 75% of the American population from receiving a scholarship. (Then again, maybe evangelism of homosexuals would be considered &#8220;positive&#8221;&#8230;) So much for being &#8220;inclusive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the NGPA also has the &#8220;gayest&#8221; parties, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngpa.org\/content.aspx?page_id=22&amp;club_id=189069&amp;module_id=230269\">according to their website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We also throw some of the best (and gayest!) aviation events ever!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that these kids probably never heard of Fred Flintstone, it&#8217;s kind of creepy that they&#8217;re spending hundreds of thousands of donor dollars on &#8220;aviation events&#8221; that they make a point of\u00a0describing sexually.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably those gay-galas are the primary reason for the 501(c)3 status the group holds. Over the past two years, the NGPA has spent more than $250,000 on &#8220;events&#8221;, and aside from a few ancillary housekeeping expenses, those parties are pretty much all they spend their &#8220;charity&#8221; money on.<\/p>\n<p>Worse yet, in 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/files\/ngpa990.pdf\">they reported<\/a> $0 in program expenses &#8212; meaning they didn&#8217;t spend a single dime actually performing the mission of their &#8220;charity&#8221; for pilots.\u00a0 Instead, they categorized nearly $170,000 in &#8220;events&#8221; expenses as &#8220;fundraising.&#8221;\u00a0 Given that those &#8220;events&#8221; are described as one of their core missions, it seems possible that is an accounting error.\u00a0 (To their credit, they don&#8217;t report paying a cent to any officer, in contrast to Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein&#8217;s self-paying charity.)<\/p>\n<p>Still, it does seem like the NGPA largely exists to help homosexual pilots get together for tax-deductible gay bashes, and it seems a significant number of aviation related corporations are more than happy to help out. With USAA supporting Ashley Broadway&#8217;s yearly AMPA &#8220;gay gala&#8221; and these companies supporting the NGPA, it&#8217;s almost as if corporations in America feel obligated to bend over to appease a small segment of society &#8212; and they just assume the rest of society won&#8217;t be alienated (or care enough to do anything) while they&#8217;re at it.<\/p>\n<p>In any other era, this story would be easily confused with The Onion or other satire, but it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s kind of pathetic, but it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a sexual community of pilots? The National Gay Pilots Association is there for you.<\/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>Every now and then someone critiques the idea of there being a &#8220;Christian Fighter Pilot.&#8221; For some (generally non-Christians), it is the perceived\u00a0&#8220;oxymoron&#8221; of being a follower of Christ while simultaneously being a military combatant. 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