{"id":5557,"date":"2010-05-26T00:35:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T08:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2013-09-24T21:34:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T00:34:38","slug":"ministry-asks-congress-to-keep-dont-ask-dont-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/26\/ministry-asks-congress-to-keep-dont-ask-dont-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry Asks Congress to Keep Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coral Ridge Ministries, a media outreach group founded by the late D. James Kennedy, sent a letter to Congress asking them not <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/politics\/dcblog\/2010\/05\/coral_ridge_ministries_keep_ba.html\">to change the current policy on homosexuals in the military<\/a>, popularly\u00a0called &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The conservative Christian group based in Fort Lauderdale says efforts this week to repeal the 1993 law limiting gay and lesbian service represent &#8220;a direct assault on the military\u2019s good order, discipline, unit cohesion, recruitment, retention and morale.\u201d\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are all made in God\u2019s image, but that does not mean that all behavior is equal, desirable or moral,&#8221; the group said in a letter to leaders of the House and Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The group had dire predictions of the potential impact of a repeal on the moral and logistical culture of the military:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The letter&#8230;warns that repeal would lead to mandatory &#8220;sensitivity&#8221; training, violations of sexual privacy and modesty, an exodus of chaplains and the departure of up to 25 percent of the armed forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ministry is <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/retired-chaplains-oppose-dadt-repeal\/\">not the first to oppose the policy change<\/a>, though it is one of the only ones to frame the argument by saying the military would be making a cultural policy change based on a servicemember&#8217;s chosen behavior, rather than some form of inherent identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coral Ridge Ministries, a media outreach group founded by the late D. James Kennedy, sent a letter to Congress asking them not to change the current policy on homosexuals in the military, popularly\u00a0called &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221; The conservative Christian group based in Fort Lauderdale says efforts this week to repeal the 1993 law limiting gay and lesbian service represent [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5284,4,78,553,554,219,442,2,10],"class_list":["post-5557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-congress","tag-coral-ridge","tag-d-james-kennedy","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557","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=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}