{"id":8554,"date":"2010-12-22T00:35:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T05:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8554"},"modified":"2013-10-06T23:11:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T02:11:55","slug":"christianity-and-morality-in-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/christianity-and-morality-in-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity and Morality in the Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Gays have been in the military since the beginning of armed conflict, and allowing them to admit that fact does not change the fact that they take the same risk as straight service members and are due the same respect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/03\/dont-ask-dont-tell-the-military-christians-perspective\/#comment-11719\">like these<\/a> are increasingly common &#8212; even from Christians &#8212;\u00a0and demonstrate ignorance of the point of those who have opposed repeal of the law banning homosexuals from serving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The fact that homosexuals have served within the military, in violation of the law, does not nullify the validity of the law (anymore than violation of any other law does so).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Risk,\u00a0sacrifice, etc, are all irrelevant.\u00a0 There is no <!--more-->Constitutional right to serve in the US armed forces.\u00a0 A person who does not meet the military&#8217;s standards for physical capability, emotional stability, and moral character are routinely, and rightfully, discriminated against regardless of their personal desire, patriotism, or willingness to serve their country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">With regard to other &#8220;difficult moral areas,&#8221; the US military actively advocates <em>for<\/em> virtue and <em>against<\/em> vice in those areas.\u00a0 It promotes the sanctity of\u00a0<strong>marriage<\/strong> and fights against <strong>divorce<\/strong>.\u00a0 It continues to prosecute <strong>adultery<\/strong>.\u00a0 It promotes <strong>sobriety<\/strong>, smoking <strong>cessation<\/strong>, and is currently prohibited from performing <strong>abortions<\/strong>.\u00a0 Contrary to some assertions, the military does not target <strong>civilians<\/strong> in combat and often goes to painful risks &#8212; even to the lives of its own servicemembers &#8212; to avoid unnecessary loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>The military is entering an era, for the first time, where it would\u00a0<em>not<\/em> advocate <em>against<\/em> a &#8220;difficult moral area&#8221; that was not a recognized human liberty protected by the Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gays have been in the military since the beginning of armed conflict, and allowing them to admit that fact does not change the fact that they take the same risk as straight service members and are due the same respect. Quotes like these are increasingly common &#8212; even from Christians &#8212;\u00a0and demonstrate ignorance of the point of those who have [&#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":[338,219,740,442,83,2],"class_list":["post-8554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-adultery","tag-dadt","tag-divorce","tag-homosexual","tag-marriage","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554","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=8554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}