Today's Military's Gay Pride Event Criticized By Christian Chaplains' Group

As reported by God and Country blog, today the Pentagon is hosting, for the first time, an event celebrating LGBT Pride Month. (Background from AP).The publicity for the event stresses diversity as a great strength.  The Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, a group made up primarily of retired military chaplains representing Christian chaplain endorsing organizations, last week issued a statement condemning the decision by the Department of Defense to sponsor the event, saying:

The details of how the military will celebrate have not been made public, but the Pentagon announced Friday that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wants to honor the contributions of homosexual service members. Ironically, although DoD makes attempts to strengthen traditional families, it has never promoted a “heterosexual month” to honor the contributions of heterosexual members who make up at least 97 percent of the military.