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Huckabee Rips Obama’s Choice for Army Sec.: ‘Homosexuality Is Not a Job Qualification’
mediaite ^ | September 19th, 2015 | Josh Feldman

Posted on 09/19/2015 2:09:17 PM PDT by Vision Thing

Mike Huckabee isn’t happy with President Obama‘s decision to appoint an openly gay man as the next Secretary of the Army.

Eric Fanning, the current acting Under Secretary of Army, was selected by Obama this week, which would make him the first openly gay man to lead any branch of the U.S. military.

And while The Washington Post notes his sexuality isn’t really a big deal to the Army or to even some Republicans in Congress, leave it to Huckabee to crank up the outrage-ometer with this statement today:

It’s clear President Obama is more interested in appeasing America’s homosexuals than honoring America’s heroes. Veterans suicide is out-of-control and military readiness is dangerously low, yet Obama is so obsessed with pandering to liberal interest groups he’s nominated an openly gay civilian to run the Army. Homosexuality is not a job qualification. The U.S. military is designed to keep Americans safe and complete combat missions, not conduct social experiments.

Huckabee said something similar last month when asked about transgender soldiers, because obviously allowing non-straight people to serve their country openly with honor and dignity is a “social experiment.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: army; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; huckabee; obama
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To: ColdOne; SgtHooper; Chode
Photoshopped?

Looks like he ain't sayin.

21 posted on 09/19/2015 2:38:27 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republican Freed the Slaves" month.)
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To: Chode

Is that picture real?


22 posted on 09/19/2015 2:38:57 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Chode

Barf alert on that last picture.


23 posted on 09/19/2015 2:40:16 PM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: odawg

Check out the Obama arm closest to us.


24 posted on 09/19/2015 2:40:23 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republican Freed the Slaves" month.)
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To: Vic S

May be easy to lose sight of the presidential duties under the current slacker, but, he is commander in chief of the armed forces 24/7/365.


25 posted on 09/19/2015 2:42:05 PM PDT by John W (Less Than Two Years of ISIS Best Friend Left)
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To: Vic S

The Secretary of the Army (SA or SECARMY) is a senior civilian official within the Department of Defense of the United States of America with statutory responsibility for all matters relating to the United States Army: manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems and equipment acquisition, communications, and financial management.

The Secretary of the Army is nominated by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the Secretary of the Army is a non-Cabinet position serving under the Secretary of Defense.[2] This position was created on September 18, 1947, replacing the Secretary of War, when the Department of War became the Department of the Army and was made a department within the new Department of Defense.[3]
(Wiki)


26 posted on 09/19/2015 2:43:00 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Vision Thing
‘Homosexuality Is Not a Job Qualification’

The issue is never the issue, the issue is the AGENDA.

27 posted on 09/19/2015 2:43:09 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (I support Cruz and Trump-DC corruption delenda est!)
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To: Ann Archy

Some republicans seem to have surrendered in this war. Other republicans seem to be happy for the homos. Other republicans are probably happy with the bribes that the homos have been paying them.


28 posted on 09/19/2015 2:43:21 PM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: Kaslin

Correct. However, considering this guy’s experience, he will probably be confirmed
“Fanning, 47, has been a specialist on national security issues for more than two decades and has played a key role overseeing some of the Pentagon’s biggest shipbuilding and fighter jet programs.


29 posted on 09/19/2015 2:44:38 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Chode

Have you researched the kissing photo? Is is photoshopped??


30 posted on 09/19/2015 2:44:42 PM PDT by SE Mom (God, restore our beloved country, amen.)
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To: Vision Thing

can anyone imagine the scene in russia when putin and crew heard this news?

they were prolly busting a gut for a good 10-15 minutes.


31 posted on 09/19/2015 2:45:23 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Vic S
Why does the President get to appoint the anyone to lead the military? He is only Commander is Chief during times of war, we’re not at war.

Can the next president simply dismiss all the appointees that homobama has been making?

32 posted on 09/19/2015 2:45:56 PM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Do I see a white hand, different texture of cloth?


33 posted on 09/19/2015 2:47:17 PM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg

I don’t think the hand, but the arm fabric seems a different color.

I think that’s Oprah to the right, Michelle to the left - and isn’t it Sarkosy he’s kissing? If it’s real. Which I doubt.


34 posted on 09/19/2015 2:54:38 PM PDT by SE Mom (God, restore our beloved country, amen.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

What are your fellow officers saying about homobama’s choice for Army sec.?


35 posted on 09/19/2015 2:55:55 PM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: nuconvert; Ann Archy; SgtHooper; ColdOne; ROCKLOBSTER; odawg; Vision Thing; SE Mom
the Brit PM and yes, i believe it is shopped
36 posted on 09/19/2015 2:58:31 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Vision Thing
Mike Huckabee isn’t happy with President Obama‘s decision to appoint an openly gay man as the next Secretary of the Army.

Don't you get it Mike? Obama just wants to share a sauna with the general and get to play with his big guns before he leaves his office,.............

37 posted on 09/19/2015 3:00:06 PM PDT by varon (Don't point that finger at me unless you're prepared to have it broken off!)
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To: Vision Thing

Each President nominates their own Secretary of the Army


38 posted on 09/19/2015 3:00:23 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Vision Thing

Huckabee’s forgotten that we went Through the Looking Glass back in 2008.


39 posted on 09/19/2015 3:05:49 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Trump is the child who says that the Emperor is naked.)
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To: Vision Thing

Good for Huckabee! Happy he speaks up about these type issues.


40 posted on 09/19/2015 3:13:12 PM PDT by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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