that's right, get RID of the damned don't ask don't tell rule... GO BACK TO ASKING! then say NO!!!Under the present regime...nothing will occur.
In January...if it were “President Obama”....then we would see the likely scenario of Obama ordering the SECDEF to form a new policy. Note that Obama won’t use an executive order because this leads back to the White House as the culprit. The SECDEF will be directed to open the door and just forget about “don’t ask and don’t tell”. The initial damage? Around six major admirals and generals will resign within two weeks of this announcement. Several individuals will query the SECDEF about the meaning of sodomy in the UMCJ...which is a prosecution-type offense and dictated to the US military by congress. Neither the SECDEF or the president can rewrite the Code of Military Justice. Neither will care to have a full-blown summer of gay-discussions in congress next year.
So I’m going suggest that all this talk....is just talk. Nothing will really change. Obama has to have the full support of the democratic congress...to enact any of his reforms. Tossing a entire summer of gay discussions upon them....won’t make them happy and will stall all of his potential programs. So this is merely a topic to make the gay special interest groups think that they are going to achieve results via Obama. They won’t....and its another special interest group that finds his promises to be empty by the end of his four-year period.
> Activists are now pushing for change to allow homosexuals to serve openly. <
The intolerance showed by the “supposed” tolerant people. Amazing.
From a less than 5% of the population actually telling the vast majority how to “accept” their lifestyle...
I wonder if it depends on one’s view of the Armed Services. Is serving one’s country in the Armed Forces a duty, a responsibility, a right, or a privilege?
If it is a Duty, then homosexualists should never be exempt: they must serve OR ELSE. (e.g. go-to-gaol or be hanged if during a time of war)
If it is a Responsibility, then homosexualists should discharge their responsibilities just like everyone else does, or they should find a way for somebody else to do it for them. (e.g., an exemption tax based on lifestyle?)
If it is a Right then provisions for homosexualists to serve in the Armed Forces should appear in your Bill of Rights. I am not aware that it does.
If it is a Privilege (which is in-line with my personal thoughts) then the status quo is just fine: homosexualists exempt themselves from this privilege: in their case by electing a lifestyle incompatible with the UCMJ.
If they are found out, boot ‘em out...
I am from the old school...
When I was on Active Duty there was a platoon that was interviewed individually in regard to the impact of having had a gay soldier that had recently been discharged once command discovered his proclivities. This was an infantry platoon that spent a lot of time in the bushes away from home. The myth was that several of the married guys liked haivng him around in the field ‘because he gave great bjs”. I don’t think we need this sort of crap in the military.
I think what needs to be said here is that homosexuals being allowed to serve openly in the military is not just for enlisted personnel but officers, as well.
If there is one thing that would damage the respect for chain of command in the military, this would be it. Homosexual officers would gravitate to having sex with enlisted men because of the fact that there is more of them and have power over them due to their rank.
“Special relationships’ would be inevitable between an officer and an enlisted man where rapid advancement, special duty assignments and glowing reviews placed in their jackets, along with special liberty and leaves.
The eroding effects of this conduct would be destroy any semblance of military order and respect for command.
Rome fell because it rotted away from within and our country and our military is in peril of following the same path.
that's right, get RID of the damned don't ask don't tell rule... GO BACK TO ASKING! then say NO!!!Subsequently, the homosexual lobbying groups would next demand proportionate representation in every category of that military including the officer corps - wherein homosexuals would be actively recruited to fill these “only fair” positions.
Promotion lists would be scrutinized to see if open homosexuals are being advanced as fast - or faster (to make up for past discrimination!) - than straights.
An affirmed homosexual could end the career of any fellow soldier by accusing him or her of making inappropriate remarks about his or her (or its) sexuality.
The resulting inquiry itself, whatever the outcome, would effectively blemish the soldier's evaluation record and end a career - besides making it not worthwhile to continue in the military in such an environment.
May we forever keep in mind that the effort to insert open homosexuals into the military is not really an effort for justice but in large part a perpetual desire of the hard left to destroy the U. S. military.