{"id":11164,"date":"2010-12-31T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11164"},"modified":"2010-12-31T10:46:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T15:46:10","slug":"why-repealing-dadt-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/why-repealing-dadt-was-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Why repealing DADT was wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/article\/20101230\/morality-and-the-military\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The repeal was and should be opposed because it endorses homosexual behavior \u2013 and homosexual behavior is morally wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But why, you might be thinking, pick on homosexual activity and ignore other behaviour that is wrong? Because \u2013 while they are undoubtedly occurring &#8211; the military is not being asked to explicitly condone any other wrongs.<\/p>\n<p>It is a losing battle, though, since only a Christian perspective regards homosexual activity as wrong: society has largely abandoned Christianity in favour of a constantly shifting moral relativism, so the homosexualisation of Western culture will undoubtedly continue apace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/why-repealing-dadt-was-wrong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[2117],"class_list":["post-11164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-ask-dont-tell","tag-dont-ask-dont-tell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}