{"id":8724,"date":"2010-12-28T00:10:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2013-10-06T23:06:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T02:06:25","slug":"bishop-church-wont-evaluate-military-homosexual-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/28\/bishop-church-wont-evaluate-military-homosexual-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop: Church Won&#8217;t &#8220;Evaluate&#8221; Military Homosexual Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting dance of politics and semantics, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/12\/26\/wuerl-church-wont-evaluate-militarys-gay-service-policy-marriage-clue\/\">reportedly said<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the Catholic church is not in a position to evaluate the impact of openly gay service members on military readiness directly&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>but<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That is a question that has to be worked out politically. And there isn&#8217;t a specific Catholic Church position,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but whatever happens, it has to be seen in terms of the church&#8217;s teaching position. And that is, <!--more-->human sexuality is something that is supposed to be exercised responsibly and within the context of marriage.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Cardinal speaks well that he cannot <em>directly<\/em> evaluate &#8220;military readiness&#8221; base on <em>any<\/em> policy the military institutes, because he is not a military leader.\u00a0 He is, however, a <em>moral<\/em> leader, and <em>can<\/em> speak to the moral costs to be paid in <em>any<\/em> institution, or even the military in particular.\u00a0 He passively stated the &#8220;church&#8217;s&#8221; position in making reference to the Catholic church&#8217;s stance against homosexual marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting dance of politics and semantics, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, reportedly said the Catholic church is not in a position to evaluate the impact of openly gay service members on military readiness directly&#8230; but &#8220;That is a question that has to be worked out politically. And there isn&#8217;t a specific Catholic Church position,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but [&#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":[4,219,1282,2],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-churchandstate","tag-dadt","tag-donald-wuerl","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724","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=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}