Posted on 06/19/2008 2:27:17 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Two homosexual advocacy groups are criticizing the decision to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to retired General Peter Pace. He'll be honored on Thursday.
"Honoring General Pace with the country's highest civilian award is outrageous, insensitive and disrespectful to the 65,000 lesbian and gay troops currently serving on active duty in the armed forces," said Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), in a news release on Wednesday.
"Our men and women in uniform are making tremendous sacrifices for our country and are looking for the president to recognize leaders who offer them praise and vision, not condemnation and scorn," Sarvis stated.
"What do you get for calling LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Americans immoral and supporting the continued firing of gay Americans?" asked Parents and Friends of Lesbians And Gays (PFLAG) in the group's online blog last Thursday.
"If you're retired General Peter Pace, you get a Presidential Medal of Freedom," the organization said.
"President Bush is preparing to honor the military's self-appointed 'moral monitor' with an honor traditionally reserved for those who defend freedom ... not those who try to deny it to millions of people," the group continued.
"Honoring General Pace for using his personal prejudice to meddle with military matters is just plain wrong," PFLAG added. "There should be no medal for bigotry and intolerance."
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65,000 gay and lesbian troops?
What division are they in?
65,000 gay troops? Where do they get these numbers?
Wait, don’t answer that.....
65,000? If those numbers are firm, our military is limper than I ever dreamed. Hope our enemies haven’t developed the ‘gay bomb’!
Queen Berets?
Gen. Pace is a man of guts and conviction. He deserves any medal he is awarded. No offense to GLBT folks...your sexual orientations are immoral but not illegal. Gen Pace stated what you did not want to hear because your souls were convicted. So be it.
Talk about a number pulled completely out of thin air.
Or somewhere deep and dark and icky.
The Gay BrigAIDS to the rescue!
I was thinking it may be pulled from somewhere else...
“Talk about a number pulled completely out of thin air.”
In this case,it was more likely pulled out of someone’s arse.
Hey! All you gays, Suck it up...and go back to your poison blood lovefest...
If no one is asking, and no one is telling, how can anybody know how many homosexuals are currently in the military? Having been in the service, I know that there are “gays” serving, but any estimate is probably just guessing...
How do they know 65K homosexual troops, where do they get these numbers pull them out of their....oh never mind.
I was thinking that it was likely pulled from somewhere not nearly as pure as thin air.
“What division are they in?”
I would say the “Rainbow Division” but I think there really was/is one and so wouldn’t want to insult those fine soldiers.
The Flouncing 59th.
Peter Pace... American, Marine and one awesome human being. If anyone deserves to be recognized with this honor it is him.
ewwwwwwww......
It’s their battle cry that bugs me:
NEVER LEAVE YOUR BUDDY’S BEHIND.
Homosexuals want "praise and vision" for being homosexual? Forget it.
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