BREAKING NEWS
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
MRFF OUTRAGED
OVER TRUMP's
REPREHENSIBLE TWEETS
ON U.S. MILITARY
TRANSGENDER BAN!
PRIME EXAMPLES OF WHOM TRUMP IS TARGETING:
Coming Out: A Transgender Airmen's Story
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
SSgt Ashleigh Buch, from Offutt AFB, has transitioned successfully under new DOD policy regarding transgender airmen. She speaks about her journey and provides insight into the LGBT community. [...]
Air Force Times
Transgender airman:
‘I would like to see them try to
kick me out of my military’
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
After President Trump’s surprise announcement Wednesday barring transgender people from serving “in any capacity“ in the military, one prominent transgender airman said he’s more determined than ever to continue serving in the Air Force.
“I would like to see them try to kick me out of my military,” Staff Sgt. Logan Ireland said in an interview with Air Force Times. ”I would challenge them [in court]. You are not going to deny me my right to serve my country when I am fully qualified and able and willing to give my life.”
Other transgender service members expressed the same determination to stay in uniform in interviews with Military Times. [...]
Daily Kos
Transgender Navy SEAL
to Donald Trump:
'Let's meet face to face and you
tell
me I'm not worthy'
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Kristin Beck, who spent two decades as a Navy SEAL, has a challenge for Donald Trump in the wake of his morning tweetstorm announcing a ban on transgender service members. From Business Insider:
"Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy," Kristin Beck, a 20-year veteran of the Navy SEALs, told Business Insider on Wednesday. "Transgender doesn't matter. Do your service." [...]
Former Secretary of Defense
Ash Carter's 2016 Statement
Ending the Transgender Ban
in the U.S. Military
Thursday, June 20, 2016
Signed 69 Years Ago Today
Executive Order by
President Harry S. Truman
to Desegregate the U.S. Military
Monday, July 26, 1948
"...THERE IS NO SUCH THING
AS TRANSGENDERISM"
~USAF Chaplain Sonny Hernandez
HUFFPO FEATURED OP-ED
BY MRFF's SENIOR RESEARCH DIRECTOR CHRIS RODDA
SHUTS DOWN
HYPOCRITE HERNANDEZ!
The Glaring Double Standards Of The Air Force’s Most Homophobic, ‘Bible-Believing’ Chaplain
Friday, July 21, 2017
Recently, an Army chaplain, [Captain Erick Barrett] performing his assigned duty, gave a policy briefing to the soldiers in his unit on the Army’s new policies on transgender soldiers
[...]
But now Chaplain Barrett has incurred the wrath of Captain Sonny Hernandez, a “Bible-believing” Air Force Reserve chaplain, prolific anti-LGBT blogger — and self-appointed arbiter of what all other Christian military chaplains should do and say.
 Writing on barbwire.com (which also just published his new book, Homosexual Agenda and the US Military), Chaplain Hernandez judgmentally lamented that Chaplain Barrett did not use this policy briefing as a platform to deliver a sermon:
“Chaplain Barrett’s ‘transgender policy briefing’ was godless. There was no reference of Scripture, God, Jesus, repentance, or faith, which would be expected of an ecclesiastically endorsed evangelical who claims to be a Christian."
[...]
Chaplain Hernandez continued his barbwire.com post by pontificating with his own “transgender policy briefing” for the members of Chaplain Barrett’s unit, which begins: “To start, there is no such thing as transgenderism.”
[...]
Since its Inception in 2005,
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