{"id":41256,"date":"2017-07-06T00:20:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T03:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=41256"},"modified":"2017-07-06T00:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T03:46:19","slug":"the-conflict-between-transgender-military-policies-and-religious-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/06\/the-conflict-between-transgender-military-policies-and-religious-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conflict Between Transgender Military Policies and Religious Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[US troops] who&#8230;subscribe to Christian belief as set forth in the Bible [believe] that <strong>God created humans male and female<\/strong>; that sex is innate, and unchangeable; and that <strong>their faith<\/strong> prohibits them from seeing or being seen in a state of undress, and from sleeping, showering or performing private bodily functions with members of the opposite sex who are not their spouse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These [service members] are also aware and subscribe to the belief that <strong>science confirms the biblical account<\/strong>: there are over 6,500 unique differences between males and females, beyond <!--more-->the <strong>xy and xx chromosome<\/strong> differences that are embedded in male and female DNA. These differences are encoded genetically and manifested physiologically before birth, and remain throughout life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Physiological differences between males and females are <strong>recognized<\/strong> by differential physical training and fitness standards set forth <strong>by DOD and the armed services<\/strong>. Traditionally, DOD policy has respected basic American cultural, religious and scientific beliefs that govern societal relationships and interactions between the sexes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lc.org\/newsroom\/details\/063017-army-personnel-object-to-transgender-training-1\">Courtesy of the Liberty Counsel<\/a>.<\/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>&#8220;[US troops] who&#8230;subscribe to Christian belief as set forth in the Bible [believe] that God created humans male and female; that sex is innate, and unchangeable; and that their faith prohibits them from seeing or being seen in a state of undress, and from sleeping, showering or performing private bodily functions with members of the opposite sex who are not [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136,28],"tags":[23,96,442,2026,2,10,171,1278],"class_list":["post-41256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-government-and-religion","tag-bible","tag-christian","tag-homosexual","tag-liberty-counsel","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41256","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=41256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}