{"id":8994,"date":"2011-01-10T03:10:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8994"},"modified":"2013-10-06T22:54:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T01:54:38","slug":"fired-navy-captain-defended-by-gay-sailors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/10\/fired-navy-captain-defended-by-gay-sailors\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired Navy Captain Defended by Gay Sailors"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interesting twist, US Navy CAPT Owen Honors, recently fired<\/a> from his position as skipper of the USS Enterprise<\/em>, is being defended in the press by former Sailors who served under his command<\/a> — and are homosexual.<\/p>\n

“He wasn’t insulting” gay sailors, added Mr. Solis [a gay former Sailor], “They were just harmless jokes.”<\/p>\n

Capt. Honors “absolutely did not” create a hostile or homophobic atmosphere on board, added Eric M. Prenger, a gay sailor who also served on the Enterprise at the time. Mr. Prenger, an electronics technician, third class, said the crew looked forward to the videos, which were broadcast on the ship’s closed circuit TV system every Saturday night, preceding the showing of a movie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As to the purpose of the “humor?”<\/p>\n

Mr. Pumphrey noted that the majority of the crew were under 25 and that the juvenile humor in the videos was a way to get the crew’s attention. The videos contained “command messages,” dealing with issues such as the need to conserve water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article also notes one of the most frequently played videos was Honors’ “best of” compilation, leading to a misrepresentation of the overall tone of the totality of Honors’ videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an interesting twist, US Navy CAPT Owen Honors, recently fired from his position as skipper of the USS Enterprise, is being defended in the press by former Sailors who served under his command — and are homosexual. “He wasn’t insulting” gay sailors, added Mr. Solis [a gay former Sailor], “They were just harmless jokes.” Capt. Honors “absolutely did not” […]<\/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":[782,1351,5285,442,2,36,1302,1352,1350,476,1304],"class_list":["post-8994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-enterprise","tag-eric-prenger","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-owen-honors","tag-pumphrey","tag-solis","tag-video","tag-xo-movie-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994","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=8994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}