This isn't a post about Homosexuals in the military, well it is but only in just in passing.
What has engendered this post is a story that came out last Sunday in GQ claiming the Donald Rumsfeld adorned the covers of intelligence briefings delivered to George W Bush with relevant Biblical quotations.
Unsurprisingly this has got the usual suspects excited.
Now there is a every chance that these covers are bogus, such things are happen from time to time. But this post isn't about that either.
Rather it is this passage from the NYT in their retailing of this story that got me thinking
So in the brave new world we are entering a gay soldier will be able to regale all and sundry with the lurid details of his sexuality but a Christian one had better keep his love of Jesus to himself.
What has engendered this post is a story that came out last Sunday in GQ claiming the Donald Rumsfeld adorned the covers of intelligence briefings delivered to George W Bush with relevant Biblical quotations.
Unsurprisingly this has got the usual suspects excited.
Now there is a every chance that these covers are bogus, such things are happen from time to time. But this post isn't about that either.
Rather it is this passage from the NYT in their retailing of this story that got me thinking
Still, the publication of the cover sheets may raise more questions about the proper role of religion in the military, and whether a Christian-influenced culture, rather than a neutral one, permeated some corners of the military.And this leads to the distinct possibility that one of Obama's legacies will be the repeal of "Don't ask don't tell" with regard to "sexuality", as he has promised, but its further imposition upon those of faith who wish to serve their country.
The issue flared at the Air Force Academy four years ago, when the football coach posted a locker room banner for “Team Jesus,” and there have been lawsuits against the Pentagon concerning military retreats at off-base churches, or the displays of crucifixes at military chapels in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So in the brave new world we are entering a gay soldier will be able to regale all and sundry with the lurid details of his sexuality but a Christian one had better keep his love of Jesus to himself.