{"id":15118,"date":"2008-04-04T16:45:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T20:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/15118.html"},"modified":"2008-04-04T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T20:45:32","slug":"as-if-dont-ask-dont-tell-werent-offensive-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/as-if-dont-ask-dont-tell-werent-offensive-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"As if &#8216;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8217; weren&#8217;t offensive enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maj. Alan Rogers, an American serviceman, was killed in Iraq in January. The tragedy wouldn&#8217;t otherwise have any real political considerations, except for the fact that Rogers was gay.<\/p>\n<p>And someone at the Pentagon <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2008\/04\/pentagon-comput.html\">doesn&#8217;t want people to know that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Washington Blade reports that someone deleted mention of Rogers being gay from his Wikipedia entry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alan&#8217;s life was not about his sexual orientation but rather about the body of work he performed ministering to others and helping the defense of the country,&#8221; wrote whoever deleted the reference. &#8220;Quit trying to press an agenda that Alan wouldn&#8217;t have wanted made public just to suit your own ends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Blade reports that &#8220;the IP address attached to the deletion of the details and the posted comments is 141.116.168.135. The address belongs to a computer from the office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G-2) at the Pentagon. The office is headed by Lt. Gen. John Kimmons, who was present at Rogers&#8217; funeral and presented the flag from Rogers&#8217; coffin to his cousin, Cathy Long.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And if able-bodied, patriotic American volunteers could serve during a war without regard for sexual orientation, as most of the country would prefer, the Pentagon wouldn&#8217;t have to go to these efforts in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maj. Alan Rogers, an American serviceman, was killed in Iraq in January. The tragedy wouldn&#8217;t otherwise have any real political considerations, except for the fact that Rogers was gay. And someone at the Pentagon doesn&#8217;t want people to know that. The Washington Blade reports that someone deleted mention of Rogers being gay from his Wikipedia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}