As I predicted last year, the day is fast approaching when the military will be flooded with people wanting to change their gender at taxpayer expense. If you can stomach it, here is the story of Sgt. Shane Ortega. Or at least that is his male name. He has served three combat tours: Two in Iraq as a female Marine and one in Afghanistan as a male soldier. Born female, “he” is a helicopter crew chief in the Army’s 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii. Ortega holds a man’s military travel passport but must wear a woman’s “dress blues” for official occasions because he/she is still identified as female in the Army’s computer system. I note three things:
“An estimated 15,500 transgender people serve in the military, according to the Williams Institute, a legal think tank that studies sexual-orientation and gender-identity issues.”
“Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said last year that she supports the idea of allowing Americans to serve regardless of their gender identity.”
“During a February question-and-answer session with troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter suggested that being transgender alone should not disqualify someone from the military.”
Now you see why I say that the day is fast approaching when the military will be flooded with people wanting to change their gender at taxpayer expense. I said all of that to say this: Is this what it will take to finally cause conservative Christians to end their love affair with the military? Too bad the military fighting unjust and immoral foreign wars has only increased Christian support for the military.
The Shane Ortega story gives new meaning to the idea that joining the military will make a man out of you.
8:41 am on April 12, 2015
