{"id":41220,"date":"2017-07-07T00:10:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T03:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=41220"},"modified":"2017-07-07T01:57:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T04:57:27","slug":"sexuality-is-private-except-when-its-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/sexuality-is-private-except-when-its-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexuality is Private, Except When Its Celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cYour sexual orientation <strong>doesn\u2019t relate<\/strong> to your <strong>job<\/strong> and it doesn\u2019t relate to your <strong>successes<\/strong> in your career,\u201d Bugenig said. \u201c<strong>It\u2019s your personal life<\/strong>.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Senior Airman Benjamin Bugenig, public affairs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SrA Bugenig was speaking in response to Beale Air Force Base <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/air-force\/beale-air-force-base-holds-lgbt-pride-run-1.476124\">conducting an LGBT Pride 5K Color Run<\/a> to<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>recogniz[e] gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning servicemen and women. About 50 airmen participated in the event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>US troops participated in other <!--more-->very public &#8220;celebrations of personal lives&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/240306\/emory-s-land-celebrates-lgbt-pride-month\">Guam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcmilitary.com\/pentagram\/news\/local\/at-lgbt-pride-observance-jbm-hh-community-celebrates-progress-looks\/article_8f99c447-3883-5e6e-8d68-8a93069d8c55.html\">Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incirlik.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1223701\/incirlik-hosts-lgbt-pride-panel\/\">Incirlik AB, Turkey<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/240131\/nmotc-celebrates-lgbt-month\">Navy Medicine Operational Training Center<\/a> in Pensacola, FL, and, surprisingly enough, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/240075\/sailors-singapore-celebrate-lgbt-month-2017-with-pride\">Singapore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some activists have demanded Christians in the military be restricted or silenced because of the &#8220;propaganda&#8221; it would create and because it would &#8220;enrage our Islamic extremist enemies&#8221; to know there were Christian troops.<\/p>\n<p>That images of US troops publicly parading about in sexual displays would be <em>more<\/em> offensive to the sensibilities of Islamic extremists is apparently lost on those critics.<\/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>\u201cYour sexual orientation doesn\u2019t relate to your job and it doesn\u2019t relate to your successes in your career,\u201d Bugenig said. \u201cIt\u2019s your personal life.&#8221; &#8211; Senior Airman Benjamin Bugenig, public affairs SrA Bugenig was speaking in response to Beale Air Force Base conducting an LGBT Pride 5K Color Run to recogniz[e] gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning servicemen and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2790,6316,96,219,4282,442,5825,4232,2,17,10,171,6317,1278],"class_list":["post-41220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-beale-afb","tag-benjamin-bugenig","tag-christian","tag-dadt","tag-guam","tag-homosexual","tag-incirlik","tag-joint-base-myer-henderson-hall","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-singapore","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41220","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=41220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}