Too bad the New 2Lt couldn’t stand up in mass a do an about face remaining at attention and facing away from faust for the whole speech. Alas,.. they won’t because of something else, they are “Officers and Gentlemen/Gentlewomen.” They know what is proper and civil behavior for each occasion.
Where’s the Mega-hurl alert?
I agree that “don’t ask, don’t tell” should go away.
It needs to go back to “we don’t want homosexuals in the military and don’t need you. If you lie and join and we catch you, you will be dishonorably discharged.”
DADA was one of the Clinton’s administration’s worst mistakes.
In regards to schools like “Havard” that presecute ROTC students......this school should lose ALL federal funding to include research grants and no one attending this “university” should be able to receive federal loans for education...and the VA should not pay G.I. Bill benefits to veterans that attend this school. Cut off their money and their traitorous tendencies will self correct.
Congressional Code of Military Criminal Law applicable to all military members worldwide
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj2.htm#925.%20ART.%20125.%20SODOMY
925. ART. 125. SODOMY
(a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration , however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.
DADA is perfectly compatible with toleration of homosexually oriented men and women. It does not say “If you are homosexual, then we don’t want you”. It merely says “We do not want homosexual behavior in the military.”
Her name is appropriate.
DADT ensures privacy of sexual orientation. Since enacted, has the policy been effective? Is Faust just looking for a fight regardless of consequence?
Only after the Harvard grads were "used up" (wasted even!) would anyone else be sent.
This approach to dealing with Harvard's "elitist attitudes" would definitely circuit the whole enterprise in less than a generation.
They achieved this with the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association.
Their problem is two fold. First homosexual acts as a preference occur in no more than 4% of the adult, male population; less for female homosexuality. Second, the aim of sexuality is not recreation but procreation. Biologically speaking, using one's sexual organs such as homosexuals do, could never result in procreation.
All that said, homosexuals deserve every civil right and protection; however, anyone who has been in the military will recognize that sexuality between military personnel is demoralizing for those not so chosen of a homosexual bent and disgusting for those who are not of a homosexual bent.
The job of the military is to fight our wars. It is not a laboratory for postmodern, liberal views.
I cannot even express in words just how much this BS pisses me off.
Given Harvard’s sorry record with their law students, and given that I have absolutely no respect for any of their lib arts grads, perhaps ‘twould be better to just turn out those of worth: science, engineering, and medicine. The rest are superfluous, and can be bettered by any decent state school. ROTC students are perhaps the only sole redeeming virtue. Haarvaaad students, you want standards? Try MIT.
“Opposing discrimination is, however, neither political nor radical.”
Right, so if I protest affirmative action it’s not political and liberals wouldn’t think it radical. BS.
‘Don’t ask, don’t tell,’ is a bad joke. Either keep homosexuals out, or let them in. None of this, ‘we will let you work for us but we don’t like you so pretend that you’re aren’t what you are because if we ever find out...’
Lately the armed services have been stretched too thin to turn anyone away. And as far as I can tell, they aren’t.
I’m a Harvard alumnus (we DO exist on FR, contrary to liberal opinion), and a socially and culturally conservative Christian.
I am deeply ashamed that Harvard elected the feminazi Drew Gilpin Faust as its President. This happened in order to appease a politically-correct, ultra-liberal, feminazi-laden faction of the Facuty of Arts and Sciences (plus outside agitators, the biggest of whom I know personally), and despite the opposition of professional school faculty and many alumni and alumnae.
And I oppose the homosexual agenda, root and branch. One should be able to do so at Harvard or anywhere else without being labeled as a “bigot”.
Making a political statement supporting “gay rights” at a military commissioning, and implying that opposing these “rights” is “obviously bigoted”, is wrong, and is disrespectful of the puropse of the ceremony and the achievements and dedication of those commissioned. And it is even wrong to make such a statement at a commencement ceremony, for not unrelated reasons.
This guy needs an editor -- unless this is a Freudian slip and he doesn't really believe the rest of what he's writing.
To quote fellow Freeper BASICLOAD (see my homepage);
BASICLOAD SAYS; "When will it be OK for Gays to openly serve in our military? When we change the entire culture of our country, thats when.
When there are no more male and female bathrooms and the Army requires females to shower with me in the same open showers, thats when.
A female in the military deserves no more privacy than I deserve when it comes to my right NOT to be looked at by a gay man while undressed.
So you see that there is no good way out of this situation, but I will tell you one thing, the secular liberals in this country cannot have their cake and eat it too. When I have soapy boobs in my face in the shower, gays can look at my butt.
That just about sums it all up.