Oh stop...you lady’s are killing me! I’m laughing so hard my side hurts.
Less than 1% of those who serve on active duty identify as gαy. Let’s not exaggerate here. Let’s not pin that nastiness on the other 99% who serve and sacrifice with honor and distinction. What is this, guilt by association?? I would think wise old men like yourselves would know better than that.
The military is a microcosm of society. Just as sin exists in your own city’s towns and yes, even your own families it also exists in all branches of the military...always has...always will.
Countries have used their military for political purposes for as long as civilizations have been forming army’s...always have...always will. So please drop this false narrative of a fantasy band of honest and Nobel warriors who never drink, spit or swear...and oh ya, lay there cloak over the mud so the damsel doesn’t soil her feet and the old lady can safely cross the street.
No organization is perfect...not your local government, not your local church, not your familial matriarchs or patriarchs, not your Priest...bishop or Pope. Does this mean you just sit back, cry in your soup and hope things get better?....or maybe sit back behind your computer keyboard and opine about how all the world is a mess and the sky is falling? But oh ya...you know how it all should be.
Catholic social teaching clearly teaches that every nation has the right to form an military. There has always been wretched sinners and corrupt military leaders...but there are far, far, far more Nobel and honorable people SERVING this great nation EVERYDAY...in all corners of this world...in places you can’t even begin to imagine, protecting your ability to access whatever website you want, type whatever garbage you deem appropriate, and condemn and criticize anything you don’t agree with.
If not for these men and woman SERVING this great nation, Americans could be like North Koreans or Russians or Chinese forcefully subjected to TRUE totalitarianism.
MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS...PRAY FOR US!