{"id":8989,"date":"2011-01-13T00:45:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T05:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8989"},"modified":"2013-10-06T22:53:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T01:53:56","slug":"morality-and-the-military-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/13\/morality-and-the-military-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Morality and the Military, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Sears of the Alliance Defense Fund has an interesting article at the Christian Post<\/em> entitled Morality and the Military<\/em><\/a>, covering much of the recent discussion on the policy most often known as “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”<\/p>\n

The repeal of DADT was wrong not, primarily, because the changes it will bring will radically transform both the U.S. military and its relationship with key allies all over the world, and inevitably undermine the security and defenses of our nation. Nor even because it was passed over the vehement objections of the great majority of America\u2019s fighting servicemen whose daily lives and service it will soon and drastically impact.<\/p>\n

No, ultimately there\u2019s only one reason to oppose the repeal \u2013 and it is, of course, the reason that almost no politician or military officer is willing or able to say, right out loud.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The repeal was and should be opposed because it endorses homosexual behavior \u2013 and homosexual behavior is morally wrong.<\/p>\n

The hue and cry begins. An outrage! Intolerance! Bigotry of the most blind and blatant sort! Religious zealotry! Radical homophobia!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sears has an interesting take on the moral outrage over economic imbalance — the perception that its not “fair” that the “rich” should share wealth with the “poor” — which is ultimately founded not in humanity:<\/p>\n

Where do these ideas come from? This supreme conviction that the wealthy should share with the poor? That every person should be treated equally before the law, in the schools, in the hospitals? That employment, that insurance, that life itself should be \u201cfair?\u201d<\/p>\n

What in nature \u2013 human or otherwise \u2013 would ever compel us to such a conclusion?<\/p>\n

Nothing. Because these ideas come not from our demonstrably selfish, competitive, cutthroat instincts, but from something \u2013 from Someone \u2013 Who calls us to move beyond those instincts to a life more selfless, more giving, more compassionate, more fair…<\/p>\n

How do we say that such a distinctively Judeo-Christian morality applies to our economics, but not to our culture? To our charities for strangers, but not to our schools for our own children? To the administration and ethics of business, but not the administration and ethics of our courts?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally, importantly, as has been<\/a> said here before<\/a>:<\/p>\n

How do we command our soldiers to be so morally grounded and upright that they refuse to kill with indiscriminate hatred…to enjoy torture…to rape and pillage and feed the bloodlusts of battle \u2013 but not so upright as to frown on the self-destructive passions of immoral sexual behavior?<\/p>\n

With the repeal of DADT, we are handing the men charged with protecting our borders and defending our freedoms a moral compass with no \u201cmagnetic north.\u201d We are telling them to \u201cbe good\u201d in the ways we want them to be, and to ignore \u201cbad\u201d as it suits our politically-correct purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan Sears of the Alliance Defense Fund has an interesting article at the Christian Post entitled Morality and the Military, covering much of the recent discussion on the policy most often known as “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” The repeal of DADT was wrong not, primarily, because the changes it will bring will radically transform both the U.S. military and its […]<\/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":[437,1349,4,219,19,442,2,198,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-8989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-adf","tag-alan-sears","tag-churchandstate","tag-dadt","tag-government","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-morality","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989","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=8989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}