Outrage Over Plans to "Homosexualize" Military
Americans For Truth About Homosexuality President Peter LaBarbera issued the following statement in response to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen's testimony yesterday in favor of President Obama's plan to allow open homosexuals in the military:
"At a time of recession and a potentially long-lasting jobs crisis -- and the ongoing national security crisis presented by worldwide Islamic terrorism -- most Americans do not view homosexualizing our military as a top priority. And yet that is the course that President Barack Obama, and apparently some of his sycophantic military advisers, have chosen.
"With Defense Secretary Robert Gates' pledge to draw up plans to implement President Obama's pro-homosexual military objective -- and to remove a key means of identifying violating homosexual servicemembers (third-party reports on illegal same-sex behavior) -- America now faces the spectacle of another grinding, unnecessary, Left-driven policy debate.
"The problem for Obama -- and Gates -- is that the American people have a say in stopping this latest 'gay' capitulation. Implementing a pro-homosexual plan in the military will:
-- devastate morale and unit cohesion in our Armed Forces;
-- lead to a drop in enlistment and retention of good soldiers -- and discourage religious men and women of high moral character from seeking military service;
-- violate the privacy concerns of normal (straight) servicemembers: will new 'Gays-Only' showers be constructed at all U.S. bases?;
-- ultimately subject millions of small-town, traditionally-minded recruits to pro-homosexual 'diversity' training that undermines historic Judeo-Christian teachings;
-- further alienate the United States from a Muslim world that already regards us as a decadent nation.
"This anti-military, left-wing policy misadventure must be stopped in its tracks by the American people standing up and shouting a collective 'NO!' to the Democratic/Obama plan to homosexualize the military.
"If Sec. Gates (who also served as President George W. Bush's Secretary of Defense) and Adm. Mike Mullen -- the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who strongly backed Obama's plan -- were men of courage and principle, they would resign rather than consent to this misguided sexual experiment that will weaken our military. Instead, they have become complicit in the escalating degradation of the homosexual exclusion law under President Obama, who is beholden to his homosexual activist allies."
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groups dictating to the government what can and cannot be done. WHY WHY WHY are these organizations non taxed when they are so obviously using funds for political purposes.
A quote from the Israeli Defense Forces 14 years after they dropped the ban on gay and lesbians from serving in the military ,
"It's a non-issue," said David Saranga, a former IDF officer and now Israel's consul for media and public affairs in New York. "There is not a problem with your sexual tendency. You can be a very good officer, a creative one, a brave one and be gay at the same time."
This from the country that is home to God's chosen people.
Are we seeing here the first signs of a new alliance: Christian and Muslim bigots making common cause. Here it's an anti- gay cause, but I'm sure that they'll find other common ground.
Watch this space.
M. Glass
Do you mean Abrahamic? That would include Islam.
BTW, forcing soldiers to lie is NOT good for unit cohesion.
LV
Where to begin...first the idea that gay soldiers will not be good soldiers is ridiculous. 1. How can you argue that because a person is gay that they will not be as useful in combat or courageous? Just like minorities are lesser soldiers and are not capable of fighting for their country gay soldiers will weaken the military !
2. Wouldn't religious men and women on religious principles opt out of military service - war is the antithesis of Christianity. Jesus taught to love thy neighbor and treat others as you wish to be treated not that you should join the military.
3. Allowing gay Americans to serve in the military does not entail allowing them to wear rainbow camouflage. They will not be holding gay rallies during military campaigns. The idea is to allow gays to serve in the military without having to hide the fact that they are gay not turning the military pro-homosexual. Obviously the objection to gays in the military stems from the idea that they are abnormal.
4. The assumption is that all small town Americans follow "Judeo-Christian" traditions and can't handle diversity. This argument could also easily be used against racial integration of the military seeing that "Judeo-Christian" refers to Caucasian norms and traditions.
5. Finally, alienation from the Muslim world is perhaps the most ridiculous reason against openly gays being in the military. Should we also force women to cover their full bodies and exclude them from education because traditional Muslim countries do so? By all means we should oppose this change in military policy to make other countries more happy because of course we have a history of this as well!
There are arguments with obvious flaws in them and then there are arguments like this.