With all the problems with the economy THIS will be one of their main priorities?
Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. Trying to legitimize depravity...Did anyone really think we’d see this in our lifetime? Legitimizing anal sexual intercourse. It is such a disgusting act it boggles my mind that so many ‘straight’ people accept it as normal.
Please pass the vomit bag.
Is there anything that can stop this ‘lame duck’ blitz? Constitutionally, where do we stand?
While they’re at it, something needs to be done to address marriage within a command, or more specifically within a unit. Let’s take your first example. What if, instead of Sgt A, and privates B,C,D, and E, we have SSG A, and Sgt B and C, each of whom lead a fire team under SSG A. If SSG A is married to Sgt B, and sends Sgt C’s fireteam to flank an enemy emplacement while Sgt B provides cover, what is Sgt C’s team going to think? Or, if on post, SSG A puts Sgt C’s team on trash detail, then what? Alternately, if SSG A puts B’s team on detail, that could stress the relationship and impair both SSG A and Sgt B, and then the whole squad is impaired.
Yes, I know SSGs don’t usually lead squads, but the point is sound.
The arrogance of these people is astounding. Even in defeat they are defiant and determined to shove the last vestiages of their agenda down our throats, the economy and real national problems be damned. I am so sick of these ideologs, I would really rather they just take the rest of the year off and stay out of our faces.
They can repeal it, as long as it reverts to the previous policy.
Will that make them go away?
Excellent article, not only for its reasoning regarding sexual conduct, but also in its explanation of the stress involved in military service.
DADT, plus Card Check to name a couple they are going to try to do in the “lame duck”.
Without replacing it with something else (can you say hot potato) this would merely make policy fall back on the old practice of “if you’re gay you can’t come in, and if you are found gay while in, you get dishonorably discharged.” Surely the Rats know this, and they’re not talking about what’s going to take the place of DADT, and the “gay” community does not seem to be voicing any concern. Weird.
I’ve said it for many years...the racial analogy drawn by DADT opponents it wrong. A much better analogy is the integration of women into the services. It works, as well as it does, because we recognize men and women are of fundamentally different worth but they behave differently.Marash, nails the issue perfectly. Except for one point, by not beginning to discuss actual polices for addressing behavior, DADT repeal activist are being disloyal to the interest of gay service members.
To the sodomite, there is no difference. The allowance of "orientation" is a license to engage in any kind of sex they grave.
Practically speaking, if sodomites get the military's blessing, they will be a new protected class - powerfully protected. Any attempt a limiting their behavior - "who they are" - will be deemed, again, "discriminatory" and will effectively have an implied pass to break any remaining rules.
Mark my words.