{"id":6778,"date":"2010-08-09T00:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2013-10-03T20:46:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T23:46:37","slug":"us-military-chaplain-berated-warned-over-views-on-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/09\/us-military-chaplain-berated-warned-over-views-on-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Chaplain Berated, Warned Over Views on Homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"

While talking heads continue to declare that the repeal of the policy known as “Don’t ask, don’t tell” will have no impact on military Chaplains<\/a> or Christians in the military, a US military Chaplain has just experienced evidence undermining that claim.<\/p>\n

In an article entitled “Mounting religious liberty concerns in DADT<\/a>,” the US military Chaplain, whose details are withheld to protect his career,\u00a0is stationed with a foreign military service that allows homosexuals to openly serve.\u00a0 (The “success” of foreign militaries in integrating homosexuals into the service is often held up as a model for future American service.)\u00a0 Examples were cited that directly contradict the claims of those who support repeal:<\/p>\n

He was threatened by a senior officer for talking to a junior officer — who approached him<\/em> — about Christianity’s view on homosexuality, including being told that were he not an American, he would have been written up for “harassment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was warned to “keep silent” about his views in opposition to homosexuality by a senior Chaplain, because such views would not be tolerated and were in direct opposition to the leadership’s — a point made when the leadership presented briefings in support of homosexuality but none from the theological position in opposition to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Importantly, too, was the point that Christian Chaplains would not be unwilling to counsel homosexuals, as some have claimed; only that they would be unwilling to support a lifestyle to which they were morally opposed:<\/p>\n

The Chaplain willingly counseled a homosexual on non-relationship issues, and then offered to find her another Chaplain when she wanted help with her relationship.\u00a0 She preferred to stay with the Chaplain, despite his theology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The ADF author of the article, Daniel Blomberg,\u00a0summarizes by saying the Chaplain’s experience demonstrates that Christian Chaplains are willing to minister to homosexuals but would face repercussions even from one-on-one counseling sessions or when asked<\/em> to provide their views, if those theological views were in opposition to homosexuality.<\/p>\n

According to the article, the experience of a US Chaplain in\u00a0a foreign military service —\u00a0the go-to\u00a0model to which supporters of repeal refer — seems to predict the potential for significant religious freedom issues should homosexuals be allowed to serve openly in the US military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While talking heads continue to declare that the repeal of the policy known as “Don’t ask, don’t tell” will have no impact on military Chaplains or Christians in the military, a US military Chaplain has just experienced evidence undermining that claim. In an article entitled “Mounting religious liberty concerns in DADT,” the US military Chaplain, whose details are withheld to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[437,5284,219,770,2,10],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","category-government-and-religion","tag-adf","tag-chaplain","tag-dadt","tag-daniel-blomberg","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","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=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}