Democrats’ War Funding Amendment Would Allow Homosexuals to Serve in Military

CNSNews ^ | May 28, 2010 | Matt Cover

[jazusamo]

(CNSNews.com) – Democrats in the both the House and Senate are trying to amend the 2011 war funding bill to allow gays, lesbians, and bisexuals to serve in the military, a move opposed by the heads of all four branches of the armed services.
 
The amendments are being sold as a compromise between homosexual activists, their congressional allies, and defenders of the military who support the current ban on homosexual service.
 
The proposal would not allow gays, lesbians, and bisexuals to serve immediately but would delay their entry until the Defense Department completes its policy review in December. Originally, that review was to decide whether or not the military agreed that accepting gays, lesbians, and bisexuals would not harm readiness or unit cohesion.
 
Currently, it is against federal law for homosexuals to serve in the military. That law, Public Law 654, states that “homosexuality is incompatible with military service” and stipulates that any military personnel who violate the policy receive a discharge.
 
The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and in the House by Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.) would repeal the ban on homosexual service 60 days after completion of the Defense Department review.
 
If adopted, the amendment would also allow homosexuals to marry other homosexuals while in the military as well as allowing any soldier to engage in homosexual acts.
 
The policy is opposed by the heads of each of the four branches of the military, each of whom testified against repealing the ban in February 2010. Each of the four service chiefs has also reiterated their displeasure in individual letters to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
 
Each of the four flag officers wrote that the military should be allowed to complete its policy review before Congress attempts to repeal the ban. Doing otherwise – each commander states – would make individual service members feel as if their views and opinions do not matter to congressional leaders.
 
“My views on repeal of [don’t ask, don’t tell] have not changed since my testimony,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey wrote. “I remain convinced that it is critically important to get a better understanding of where our Soldiers and Families are on this issue,” he added.
 
Adm. George Roughead, chief of Naval Operations, emphasized that repealing the ban without first finding out if the military actually wanted it repealed would send a negative message to soldiers and sailors.
 
“My concern is that legislative changes at this point, regardless of the precise language used, may cause confusion on the status of the law in the Fleet and disrupt the review process itself by leading Sailors to question whether their input matters,” he said.
 
“[T]he value of surveying the thoughts of Marines and their families is that it signals to my Marines that their opinions matter,” Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway wrote. “Collectively, we must make logical and pragmatic decisions about the long-term policies of our Armed Forces – which so effectively defend this great Nation.”
 
While the prohibition is a pet cause of homosexual activists, who view it as a major step to broad social acceptance of homosexual behavior in society, it is not a major issue for the military.
 
According to information reported by the Congressional Research Service and the Defense Department newspaper Stars and Stripes, discharges for homosexuality make up only a very small fraction of total discharges, meaning that far more service members are discharged for criminal and other offenses than for homosexuality.
 
In fact, discharges for homosexuality accounted for a mere 0.004 percent of all discharges in 2008. There were only 634 people discharged for homosexuality out of a total of 157,984 total discharges in 2008.
 
In fact, despite maintaining an active-duty force numbering well over 1 million personnel, discharges for homosexuality have never been more than 2,000 in any given year since 1980, according to CRS.
 
Reports of so-called witch-hunts, a charge often made by homosexual activists, have also been found to be false. According to CRS, the Defense Department found that the “vast majority” of discharges for homosexuality occurred because a service member voluntarily disclosed that he or she was gay, not because the military had conducted any sort of investigation into their conduct.

[autumnraine]

How is this a “compromise” if they get everything (and more than allowed in the private world by allowing marraige!) they want?

[jazusamo]

It’s no compromise, the RATS are giving the gay and lesbian activists everything they want.

[Tublecane]

“Democrats’ War Funding Amendment Would Allow Homosexuals to Serve in Military”

Homosexuals are already allowed to serve in the military. That’s what “don’t ask” is all about. The headline ought to say “openly,” but doesn’t, no doubt intending to confuse stupid people, per usual.

[proxy_user]

Can anyone explain just how many gay guys have always longed to storm a Taliban stronghold, yelling and hurling grenades?

I thought so......

[edcoil]

Where is the transgendered?

[musicman]

"How is this a “compromise” if they get everything (and more than allowed in the private world by allowing marraige!) they want?"

[musicman]

"Can anyone explain just how many gay guys have always longed to storm a Taliban stronghold, yelling and hurling grenades?"

[Cheetahcat]

What is next for the Rats??? Pedophiles and child molesters?

[musicman]

FWIW,IMHO, THIS is why the gays want DADT overturned.

The gays are not “legitimate” in the eyes of the Federal Gov’t.

Anybody ever see the movie “Miracle On 34th Street”? A man claims to be Santa Claus and is taken to court to prove he IS the “legitimate” Santa Claus.

His lawyer wins the case by providing THOUSANDS of USPS letters addressed to Santa Claus. If the USPS, a branch of the Federal Gov’t recognizes that Santa exists, then Santa is “legitimate”.

Once the US Military ( a branch of the Federal Gov’t ) recognizes gays as “legitimate”, they can then use that to gain the “legal equal treatment” from local, state, and Federal Gov’t’s they seem to think they are now denied.

Once the Military of the US Gov’t puts their “stamp of approval” on them, it’s “Game-Set-Match” as far as ever stopping their agenda.

It’s a “back door way” of gaining legitimacy, but they just might pull it off.

[jazusamo]

That’ll come soon enough. Can you imagine what the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs will be saying when Bethesda and Walter Reed offer that surgery?

[ex-snook]

This should only be voted on my Congressional members who served in the military. Others should recuse themselves.

[jazusamo]

You make a good point as pathetic as it is.

[Maelstorm]

The SAPRO report on sexual assault in the military shows that Homosexuals are 3+x more likely given their small military population to comitt sexual assault than the general service population. Most DADT discharges are directly related to inappropriate sexual advances and behavior. The media us feeding the public well crafted lies on the innocuous nature of homosexual service.

[ex-snook]

"The headline ought to say “openly,” "

That means they can then tell everyone they are available for gay sex.

[Retain Mike]

Here is my last letter to the editor.

Regarding Congressional legislation to scrap “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, advocates rely for foundational credibility on the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). However, concurrently and subsequently, no papers were presented refuting research previously done.

After this unsubstantiated decision, a new task force ensured perpetual sanctity for the APA action. The task force set standards for peer review of articles to dictate appropriate flexibility in design definitions, outcomes, and analytical models. No research papers would again arise to confirm initial therapy success rates of 30% to 60 %, which substantiated other research that 7 of 10 homosexuals could eventually walk away from the lifestyle forever.

Psychology and Psychiatry have chosen to abandon all pretense of scientific rigor in exchange for popular societal and political acclaim. In Genesis 3:23-24 the Lord God banished humanity from the Garden of Eden and placed an angel before the Garden to keep humanity away forever. By their actions, Psychology and Psychiatry appear content to keep science away from their own Garden of Eden.

Base antidotal prattle dominates the current debate, because these two disciplines cannot examine whether any mental disorders are acceptable for people seeking or retaining military service. In such an environment, there is little chance Congress will focus on the primary principle that military service should always be the ultimate meritocracy. There can be no compromises in struggles to defeat enemies unconcerned with social engineering.

[jazusamo]

Agreed, and the leftist enemedia will be triumphant when this is passed.

[musicman]

Thank you for your reply to my post.

I hope they fail at the attempt.

[Dapper 26]

I thought Congress was waiting for the Pentagon report - not that I’m holding my breath for that report? So we pass the law anyway before the report? Why do it in the first place if the conclusion is already known? Liars, lies and more lies.

[edcoil]

I find the prejudice of this legislation not to already include them — disturbing.