As a former resident of Pensacola, Florida, I am very familiar with the Navy’s Blue Angels flight demonstration team, which is headquartered there. Well, it turns out that “members of the Blue Angels openly passed around pornography and flew with it in their cockpits during airshows” and “they cursed gays and spread dirty talk about women.” You can read the complete and sordid story here. So why do I point this out? The members of the Blue Angels are supposed to be the absolute finest members of the U.S. military. They are eternal heroes just for being a part of the Blue Angels. When I lived in Pensacola, everyone there loved watching the Blue Angels practice; that is, sucker young men into joining the Navy.
This incident shows once again that the military is corrupt from top to bottom. Although it also kills people and breaks things that it has no business killing or breaking, not too many Americans, and especially American conservative Christians, have too much trouble with that. How can Christians and churches and pastors continue to recommend military service to Christian young people? Are they really that ignorant of what the military is actually like?
The U.S. Navy: A Global Force for Porn.
7:24 pm on June 5, 2014
