{"id":45392,"date":"2020-07-01T11:57:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=45392"},"modified":"2021-04-01T09:52:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:52:21","slug":"us-military-ignores-faith-celebrates-pride-in-homosexual-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/01\/us-military-ignores-faith-celebrates-pride-in-homosexual-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Ignores Faith, Celebrates Pride in Homosexual Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-45827 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/f35flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/f35flag.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/f35flag-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/f35flag-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last month, despite the lack of any pronouncement from their Commander-in-Chief, a few US military facilities continued the Obama-era tradition of celebrating the sexual behaviors of a few of their service members.<\/p>\n<p>At <strong>Yokosuka<\/strong>, the US Navy held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/372870\/fleet-activities-yokosuka-celebrates-lgbt-pride-month\">socially-distanced Pride cake cutting<\/a>, attended by about 10 people, including the facility\u2019s commander, Navy Capt Rich Garrett.<\/p>\n<p>Naval Warfare Center <strong>Dahlgren<\/strong> celebrated Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/372938\/nswcdd-lgbt-pride-month-profile-yeoman-2nd-class-aw-joshua-kelley\">in-depth personal profile<\/a>, noting he<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>volunteers\u2026in the Hampton Roads LGBTQ+ community by performing as the drag queen, Harpy Daniels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s&#8230;disturbing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>March Air Reserve Base<\/strong> noted the &#8220;evangelistic&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/372971\/looking-back-historic-march-chapel-wedding-with-pride\">message of Marvin Tucker<\/a>, who <!--more-->said to change people&#8217;s minds about homosexuality they needed the freedom not to have to hide:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have to get out, be yourself, and help people think differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At <strong>Luke Air Force Base<\/strong>, two homosexual F-35 instructor pilots asked to perform a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/372962\/pride-month-flyby-celebrates-lgbtq-community\">Pride Month flyby<\/a>\u201d, which was apparently capped off with a group photo of the \u201cgay pride\u201d flag, a unit commander, and international officers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what do you think would have happened if a group of officers had asked for a \u201creligious freedom flyby\u201d and asked a commander to join them holding a Christian chapel flag in front of F-35s? After all, there <em>is<\/em> a &#8220;Religious Freedom Day&#8221;, which <em>has<\/em> been proclaimed by President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>A commander stands <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/04\/07\/general-vincent-brooks-to-command-us-forces-korea\/\"><em>near<\/em> a chapel flag<\/a>, and research assistant Chris Rodda has a conniption that some unnamed military regulation has been violated. Wailing and gnashing of teeth ensues when a commander has a chaplain pray at an event, as so-called civil liberties groups complain he is forcing religion on his troops.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, a commander appropriates two F-35s to celebrate preferred sexual behavior and endorses the divisive \u201cpride\u201d in a photo op \u2013 and no one bats an eye.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any doubt that a faux right to \u201csexual liberty\u201d is more valued than the human right of religious freedom?<\/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>Last month, despite the lack of any pronouncement from their Commander-in-Chief, a few US military facilities continued the Obama-era tradition of celebrating the sexual behaviors of a few of their service members. At Yokosuka, the US Navy held a socially-distanced Pride cake cutting, attended by about 10 people, including the facility\u2019s commander, Navy Capt Rich Garrett. Naval Warfare Center Dahlgren [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[175,96,6346,3546,6842,6841,6846,6843,6844,85,2,5218,7,43,10,171,6840,1278,6845,4288],"class_list":["post-45392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chris-rodda","tag-christian","tag-dahlgren","tag-donald-trump","tag-harpy-daniels","tag-joshua-kelley","tag-justin-lennon","tag-march-air-reserve-base","tag-marvin-tucker","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-obama","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-rich-garrett","tag-transgender","tag-tyler-mcbride","tag-yokosuka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392","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=45392"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45828,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392\/revisions\/45828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}