Air Force Sergeant claims he was fired for refusing to endorse gay ‘marriage’: faces court martial
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 10, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews ) – An Air Force sergeant who filed a discrimination complaint with the U.S. military claiming he was fired by his lesbian commander for refusing to make a statement of support for same-sex “marriage” may now face prosecution for taking his accusations public. Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk was relieved of his duties as first sergeant at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio in August after two separate confrontations with an openly homosexual superior officer, Major Elisa Valenzeula. The first incident had to do with an Air Force trainer who told trainees he disagreed with state-sanctioned same-sex “marriage” and compared it to the fall of the Roman Empire . After a number of airmen filed complaints about the trainer’s remarks, Monk was ordered to advise Valenzuela regarding potential disciplinary action. Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk “Her very first reaction was to say, ‘we need to lop off the hea