{"id":29420,"date":"2012-04-07T08:28:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T12:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29420"},"modified":"2012-04-07T08:28:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T12:28:03","slug":"nimroddery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29420","title":{"rendered":"Nimroddery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent the following photo which was posted in a Facebook group called &#8216;Wipeout Homophobia&#8217; over the caption &#8220;hubbie in afghanistan raising a gay pride flag&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hubbie-in-afghanistan-raising-a-gay-pride-flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hubbie-in-afghanistan-raising-a-gay-pride-flag-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hubbie in afghanistan raising a gay pride flag\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hubbie-in-afghanistan-raising-a-gay-pride-flag-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hubbie-in-afghanistan-raising-a-gay-pride-flag.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And now the US military is wasting resources to investigate the incident according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/did-u-s-troops-fly-a-gay-pride-flag-in-afghanistan-1.173788\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Navy Cmdr. Bill Speaks, a Defense Department spokesman, was quoted in the Daily Caller report as saying the U.S. military has no rules &#8220;that would prohibit an individual servicemember from doing this.&#8221; But he noted that the International Security Assistance Force, which U.S. troops in Afghanistan fall under, may have different policies specifically for the Afghan theater.<\/p>\n<p>Military officials said in the article that they still haven&#8217;t determined where the flag was flown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only person who should be worried about this picture is the wife of &#8220;hubbie&#8221;. Why would a straight guy risk raising a gay pride flag if he doesn&#8217;t have a vested interest in promoting gay rights? She might be in danger of losing &#8220;hubbie&#8221; to the other team. And i suppose it&#8217;s easy to believe that the military puts up flag poles every where for no apparent reason. Why would there be a flag pole outside of a maintenance hut? And even the guy who is a few feet away is more interested in doing his job than some nimrod flying a rainbow flag.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Perkins uses the event to predict the fall of the US military in Afghanistan (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2124706\/U-S-military-investigating-photograph-soldier-raising-gay-pride-flag-base-Afghanistan.html\">UK&#8217;s Daily Mail<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Perkins compared the flying of the gay flag to the accidental Koran burnings earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u2018After February\u2019s accident with the Korans, American lives were lost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What price will we pay because some want to use the military to show their gay pride?\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And of course, gay rights groups are using it as their &#8220;Iwo Jima&#8221; moment.<\/p>\n<p>Drama Queens all. Knowing the mindset of military members like I do, I suspect that it was a prank. Everything gay is still funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent the following photo which was posted in a Facebook group called &#8216;Wipeout Homophobia&#8217; over &hellip; <a title=\"Nimroddery\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29420\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nimroddery<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}