{"id":41249,"date":"2017-07-07T00:20:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T03:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=41249"},"modified":"2017-07-07T01:57:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T04:57:12","slug":"west-point-grad-sue-fulton-on-the-importance-of-integrity-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/west-point-grad-sue-fulton-on-the-importance-of-integrity-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"West Point Grad Sue Fulton on the Importance of Integrity &#8211; Or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was asked by an investigator at one point if I was gay, and I lied,&#8221; said Sue Fulton in an interview with NBC Out. &#8220;I carried that with me for years. When it came time for the &#8216;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217; fight, that&#8217;s one of the reasons I worked so hard. To redeem myself.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out-pride30\/pride30-veteran-sue-fulton-fighting-equality-u-s-military-n761851\">former US Army Captain Sue Fulton<\/a>, USMA Class of 1980<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A failure of integrity tears at the conscience, as even Fulton acknowledges. Interestingly, her solution was <em>not<\/em> to be an officer of integrity.\u00a0 It was\u00a0not to change her <em>behavior<\/em> but to change the <em>policies.<\/em> Yet that doesn&#8217;t change the face she lied.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39723\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/suefulton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/>While Fulton advocated for homosexuality for years in the name of &#8220;tolerance,&#8221; it would seem <!--more-->her own tolerance had limits.\u00a0 In January, Fulton said religious troops who believed God should be &#8220;first&#8221; in their lives should <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2017\/01\/25\/religious-troops-is-god-first-in-your-life-then-get-out\/\">just &#8220;get out&#8221; of the military<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton was appointed a member of the West Point Board of Visitors by President Obama. She currently serves as the Vice Chair of that Board.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usma.edu\/About\/SitePages\/Home.aspx\">West Point website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The academy develops cadets to live honorably, with uncompromising integrity, as U.S Army officers in service to the nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why is it that some people seem to think integrity (also a US Air Force core value) is vitally important to the character of US troops &#8212; <em>unless<\/em> they were lying because they were homosexual?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Proverbs+11%3A3\">Proverbs 11:3<\/a> (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Where is the man who will do the right thing, no matter what the cost? Is there anyone who will act in integrity even if it means losing a job or an important business deal? Where is the woman who would be willing to act in openness and honesty if she knew it meant losing a significant relationship or a large sum of money? Are there still people in this world who would sacrifice their pride, relationships, or profit in order to maintain their integrity?<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/charlesmarshall.net\/where-is-the-man-who-will-do-the-right-thing-no-matter-what-the-cost\/\">Charles Marshall<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\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>&#8220;I was asked by an investigator at one point if I was gay, and I lied,&#8221; said Sue Fulton in an interview with NBC Out. &#8220;I carried that with me for years. When it came time for the &#8216;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217; fight, that&#8217;s one of the reasons I worked so hard. To redeem myself.&#8221; &#8211; former US Army Captain [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,1905,96,442,3491,2,10,171,1278,101],"class_list":["post-41249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-brenda-sue-fulton","tag-christian","tag-homosexual","tag-integrity","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-transgender","tag-west-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41249","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=41249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}