Here’s the first one from Fox News.
Excerpt:
Monk has served as a first sergeant at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio since 2011. He recently returned from a deployment and discovered he had a new commander – an open lesbian.
“In one of our first meetings, she was talking about her promotion and she mentioned something about a benediction,” Monk told Fox News. “She said she wanted a chaplain but objected to one particular chaplain that she called a bigot because he preached that homosexuality is a sin.”
“She then said, ‘I don’t know what kind of people actually believe that kind of crap,’” Monk said, recalling the meeting. “I knew I was going to have a rough time in this unit and I would have to be very careful what I said.”
That moment came when Monk was called in to advise the commander on a disciplinary matter involving an Air Force instructor accused of making comments objecting to gay marriage.
And then Monk had to advise his lesbian officer about someone who disagreed with homosexuality:
Seven people filed complaints about the remarks. It then became Monk’s job to advise the commander on disciplinary action.
“Her very first reaction was to say, ‘we need to lop off the head of this guy,’” Monk said. “The commander took the position that his speech was discrimination.”
Monk suggested she use the incident as a learning experience – a way to teach everyone about tolerance and diversity.
“I don’t believe someone having an opinion for or against homosexuality is discriminatory,” Monk told Fox News.
From that point, Monk said he was told that he wasn’t on the same page as the commander and if I didn’t get on the page they were on, they would find another place for me to work.”
“I’m being chastised about what’s going on,” he said. “I’m told that members of the Air Force don’t have freedom of speech. They don’t have the right to say anything that goes against Air Force policy.”
Monk, who is a devout evangelical Christian, said he met with the young instructor and told him that he was fighting for him.
“He was really concerned,” he said. “He said he felt like he was on an island – that he couldn’t be who he is anymore. He didn’t understand why somebody would be offended.”
The instructor was eventually punished by having a letter of counseling placed in his official file.
Monk soon found himself in a very similar position after his commander ordered him to answer a question about whether people who object to gay marriage are guilty of discrimination.
“She said, ‘Sgt. Monk, I need to know if you can, as my first sergeant, if you can see discrimination if somebody says that they don’t agree with homosexual marriage,’” he said. “I refused to answer the question.”
Monk said to answer would have put him in a legal predicament.
“And as a matter of conscience I could not answer the question the way the commander wanted me to,” he said.
I actually wanted to joint the military when I was young. But I knew that if I ever disagreed with my superiors on issues like abortion or gay marriage, that I would have trouble transferring my skills to a new career. I chose to go into computer science so that I could get my skills without being censored or sanctioned by teachers who didn’t agree with me. I wanted to avoid having to change who I was because someone else disagreed with me and wanted to push their views on me by exercising power. I had read about what atheists did to Christians in communist countries, and I didn’t want to be exposed to that. I knew that I had to choose a field where I could always take my skills and leave if I sensed danger.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
When my husband was a naval officer (this was before things got crazily “politically correct in the Cdn military), he encountered a few people that where really and truly homophobes – as in, they feared gays. He and some of companions actually had fun at their expense by “acting gay”, just to see them run away in horror.
At the same time, there was a real hatred towards gays, too. If it were rumoured that any particular sailor was gay, that person might one day find a hatch door dropped on his fingers, or some other “accident” would happen. When things like that happened, the officers would tend to look the other way.
For the most part, however, no one cared one way or the other. Most of the guys were too busy boasting about their sexual prowess and finding as many women to screw as possible as soon as they reached port – and when he was on a ship with females, a lot of them were every bit as promiscuous as the men. It didn’t matter if they were married or not, either. It was like everyone had something to prove, trying to live up to that sailor stereotype. My husband actually got teased and harassed for being one of the few people who didn’t cheat on their spouses. Sadly, one of the few other men who never cheated on his wife, he discovered she would have her boyfriend move into their PMQ – along with their 5yr old son – as soon as he was at sea.
There is no mistaking that there was real homophobia and hatred towards gays within the military, and that needed to be dealt with. Unfortunately, one for of unofficially sanctioned discrimination has been replaced by an official discrimination against anyone who “hates” gays – and “hate” is now defined as “anything that doesn’t promote, condone or validate homosexuality.” The idea that thinking homosexual behaviour is a sin is ludicrous, yet that’s all it takes. The end result is we now have people who live in fear of losing their jobs, reputations and worse, for daring to hold an opinion – and that is exactly what the activists want.
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Freedom of Speech is given ONLY to the “chosen few.” The more “rights” they DEMAND for themselves the more rights they take from us! And it’s not going to get better for us anytime soon…if ever!
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“I need to know if you can… see discrimination if somebody says that they don’t agree with homosexual marriage.”
I’m not sure where the legal problem is here; the answer to her question is that discrimination is completely different than (and I would guess, *legally* different than) disagreement. Agreement can’t be legislated, that’s why discrimination — acting on a “disagreement” — is legislated.
In short, Monk was right when he said “I don’t believe someone having an opinion for or against homosexuality is discriminatory.” As far as I can tell, that’s not even a matter of his opinion — that is how the law sees it.
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This is a very perceptive comment, thanks for writing that. Short and sweet.
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Astounding. I spent 10 years in the Air Force and never once had anyone ask me my views on homosexuality or abortion or the like. Good thing they’ve gotten past “Don’t ask, don’t tell” and headed into more tolerant views so that these things can get much better … or not.
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Acceptance of homosexuality or freedom. Pick one.
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