Posted on 08/08/2004 10:21:09 AM PDT by nwrep
John Kerry on Gays in the Military: Senate Floor Statement:
It is this simple, Mr. President. Lifting the ban on gays in the military is simply one of those things that we have to do if we are going to continue to make progress toward becoming a more just and honorable society, not because we embrace or like the life style, but because that is the right thing to do in a diverse, pluralistic society. To do less would be to institutionalize and legitimize homophobia. It would be to separate our Armed Forces in an artificial and false way from the very Nation that they are charged with defending. To do less would be to abandon tolerance, and to ratify intolerance as a guiding principle of national policy. It would be to be forever unfaithful, literally semper infidelis, to what this country is all about.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff have a right to be concerned about how to implement it. But I submit for the remedy we should turn not to capitulation; we should turn to education. We should turn to the same kind of effort that we employed when we desegregated the military.
(Excerpt) Read more at thomas.loc.gov ...
Short answer: obtain 2% of the vote.
- Homosexual Agenda PING -
Kerry's past coming back to haunt him again.
Where's the MSM on all this?
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Ironic you use alienate.
I have it on good authority that sailors fall overboard as a result of such alienation.
Yep turn Americas fighting force into an affirmtive action welfare summer camp...
You gotta have two militarys to pay for..
One for all the minorities women and transgendered morons...
And another that actually does the fighting and whose ranks are filled according to merit...but then guys like Kerry and Ms Clinton will come along and force you to 'mix the two...to nix the two'
The idea is to destroy the USAs ability to defend itself and its friends and allies...
So why would our 'leader politicans' wanna do that?
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