{"id":300,"date":"2011-12-01T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:41:08","slug":"the-frc-has-got-to-be-kidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/12\/01\/the-frc-has-got-to-be-kidding\/","title":{"rendered":"The FRC Has got to be kidding!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started writing this, I was annoyed, and very sarcastic. As I wrote I calmed down and the sarcasm level dropped. I went back and removed or re-worded the venom because I&#8217;d like this not to be a rant as much as I&#8217;d like it to be something that people read and say humm, I hadn&#8217;t thought about it that way.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frc.org\/\">FRC<\/a> (Family Research Council)&nbsp;published an article on their web site expressing their concern about modifications to the UCMJ (Universal Code of Military Justice).<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">They used a headline that reads &#8220;BESTIALITY SHOULD GIVE LEADERS PAWS IN TROOP BILL&#8221; saying they&#8217;re concerned about congress changing the UCMJ so that it wouldn&#8217;t include bestiality as an offense.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>The idea that our congresspeople wouldn&#8217;t understand how to edit a line like this is preposterous, but it gave FRC something to rattle cages with.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically they&#8217;re concerned about the line that reads;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;\">&#8220;Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;\"><i>or with an animal<\/i><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;\">is guilty of sodomy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>I pray to God these folks review their Christian beliefs and consider the following;&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Not all troops are gay. Those that are gay, really worked hard and sacrificed a lot for the privilege of&nbsp;serving their country.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, most Gay Soldiers I&#8217;ve talked to think of it as a privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, gay troops sometimes face <u>open hostility from other gay people<\/u> <b>because<\/b>&nbsp;they&#8217;re soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>So much of the gay community is so far to the left that sometimes gay soldiers are <u>treated like traitors or criminals<\/u>. (<i>You should see how the gay community reacts if you&#8217;re a Republican! You&#8217;re not even dateable.<\/i>) This from&nbsp;the very community that is supposed to be inclusive and proud of them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yet they serve, without complaint, without drama, they just do their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative religious people are effectively asking that America reward that kind of dedication and love of country with what?<\/p>\n<p>Lies? Fear? Never being able to dance in public with their loved one? Revulsion? Being treated as something &#8220;Less&#8221; but good enough to die? It doesn&#8217;t seem very Christian to me, and it&#8217;s sure as hell not American.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><b>The bottom line for all of our service members regardless of sexuality is this;<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>They shouldn&#8217;t have to lie, <b>to serve<\/b>.<br \/>They shouldn&#8217;t have to live in fear, <b>to serve<\/b>.<br \/>They shouldn&#8217;t have to live a half life, <b>to serve<\/b><br \/>They protect our way of life and should be <u>respected<\/u> and <u>treated fairly<\/u> and <u>equally<\/u> due to <b>their service<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The FRC will wrap itself in the flag, talk about equality and fairness and vehemently defend its rights while at the same time hypocritically denying others <i>their<\/i> rights.<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;ll never answer the simple questions &#8220;Why are you afraid, and of what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is it any wonder that so many people look at religion and religious institutions with suspicion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started writing this, I was annoyed, and very sarcastic. As I wrote I calmed down and the sarcasm level dropped. I went back and removed or re-worded the venom because I&#8217;d like this not to be a rant as much as I&#8217;d like it to be something that people read and say humm, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/12\/01\/the-frc-has-got-to-be-kidding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The FRC Has got to be kidding!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,3,6],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative","category-gay-straight","category-general","category-rants","tag-male"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7168,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}