{"id":6346,"date":"2010-07-12T00:35:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T06:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6346"},"modified":"2013-10-03T00:54:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T03:54:32","slug":"dadt-survey-publicized-derided-by-advocacy-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/12\/dadt-survey-publicized-derided-by-advocacy-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"DADT Survey Publicized, Derided by Advocacy Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A homosexual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/group-outs-dadt-survey.html\">advocacy group obtained a copy<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/military-distributes-dadt-survey\/\">survey delivered to US military members<\/a> despite the military&#8217;s intent to keep the survey &#8220;confidential.&#8221;\u00a0 The Department of Defense <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=59972\">defended the format and content of the survey<\/a> against criticism from homosexual advocacy groups that have derided it.\u00a0 Apparently, those groups <a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/07\/09\/pentagon-defends-survey-on-gays\/\">take issue with the word &#8220;homosexual&#8221;<\/a> and the fact recipients were asked how they would feel about sharing personal space with open homosexuals.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2010\/07\/10\/Gay-rights-groups-bash-dont-ask-survey\/UPI-96681278789208\/\">military&#8217;s response<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Responding to critics&#8217; claims the survey was biased against gays, [DoD spokesman Geoff] Morrell said, &#8220;Absolutely, unequivocally, I reject it as nonsense.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A homosexual advocacy group obtained a copy of the survey delivered to US military members despite the military&#8217;s intent to keep the survey &#8220;confidential.&#8221;\u00a0 The Department of Defense defended the format and content of the survey against criticism from homosexual advocacy groups that have derided it.\u00a0 Apparently, those groups take issue with the word &#8220;homosexual&#8221; and the fact recipients were [&#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":[219,753,2,734],"class_list":["post-6346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-geoff-morrell","tag-military","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346","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=6346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}