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Serving America: Ending don't ask don't tell will draw well-qualified people into military careers
The Columbus Dispatch ^ | Saturday, February 6, 2010 | Editorial

Posted on 02/06/2010 10:14:08 AM PST by Comparative Advantage

Tuesday's unequivocal statement by the Pentagon's top two officials that openly gay men and women shouldn't be barred from serving in the nation's military should be the beginning of the end of an outdated policy.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that repealing the Clinton-era "don't ask, don't tell" policy is "the right thing to do" because the policy forces service members to lie about themselves or abandon their careers. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said ending the prohibition is inevitable, because attitudes toward gays have changed among the public and in the military.

Unfortunately, the change likely won't come quickly. Congress must overturn the 17-year-old law, and several Republicans on the Senate committee quickly blasted the idea -- even though some, including Arizona Sen. John McCain, earlier had said they would consider a change if military leaders ever called for it.

(Excerpt) Read more at dispatch.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichristian; antifamily; antimilitary; homoagendaalert; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; missingbarfalert; usmilitary
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1 posted on 02/06/2010 10:14:08 AM PST by Comparative Advantage
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To: Comparative Advantage
The change will attract psychopathic sexual perverts ~ who want to guard the prisoners eh!

Does anyone recall when the Leftwingtards were meoweling about how shameful it was we had prison guards at Abu Ghraib who were playing homosexual sex games with the prisoners?

It's like they don't remember that.

The real sex problem in the military isn't the absence of gays, it's the existence of perverts who have to be kept out, and keeping them out is going to catch the homosexuals in the same net and they won't even be there.

Wonder what Admiral Mullen does for a hobby?

2 posted on 02/06/2010 10:19:08 AM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Comparative Advantage

The military doesn’t generally hire “well-qualified” people. They CREATE well-qualified people out of raw material. Lifting DADT may get them some “well-qualified” doctors and lawyers, but it’s not going to attract gay 18 year olds to wear ugly clothing and be dirty, cold, and tired all the time.


3 posted on 02/06/2010 10:19:12 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Imagine a day when the politicians have to hold a bake sale to pay for votes!)
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To: Comparative Advantage

you forgot to put the vomit alert in the title


4 posted on 02/06/2010 10:19:13 AM PST by KMG365
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To: Comparative Advantage

absurd conclusion...


5 posted on 02/06/2010 10:21:47 AM PST by gibtx2 (keep up the good work I am out of work but post 20 a month to this out of WF Check)
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To: Comparative Advantage

“Ending ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ will draw well-qualified people into military careers”

Bullroar!

(The goal of all of this is to eventually approve homosexual “marriage”....in all states. And it will COST us in the areas of moral fabric, problems for those in the military, and in our economy. Period!)


6 posted on 02/06/2010 10:22:09 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Comparative Advantage
This has nothing to do with gays wanting to serve in the military and wanting to come out of the closet. This PC crap is being pushed by activists outside the military who want to bring everything down to their degenerate Sodom & Gomorrah level.

Soon, we won't have an army, but a weird collection of trannies and other freaks.


7 posted on 02/06/2010 10:25:43 AM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: SumProVita

“Ending ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ will draw well-qualified people into military careers”


Ending DADT will take a lot of well-qualified people out of the military


8 posted on 02/06/2010 10:26:00 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Comparative Advantage

Ending ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ will drive well-qualified warrior men away from military careers.

Women don’t belong in the fighting military, and neither do these rumpelstilzchens.


9 posted on 02/06/2010 10:27:46 AM PST by Notwithstanding (Wer glaubt ist nie allein. Who believes is never alone.)
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To: muawiyah

Wonder what Admiral Mullen does for a hobby?

LOL, immediately thought of crossdressing.


10 posted on 02/06/2010 10:29:58 AM PST by lookout88 (.combat rescue officer's dad,)
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To: Comparative Advantage

No it won’t. It’ll chase good people AWAY from the military.


11 posted on 02/06/2010 10:31:50 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Comparative Advantage

This is nothing but an attempt to get the federal gov’t to recognize marriage and partnership, through medical and on base housing........they (gays) will use this as precident, to sue in every state for marriage citing the federal gov’t.


12 posted on 02/06/2010 10:32:11 AM PST by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Comparative Advantage
What these stories fail to mention is that there are already "well qualified" homosexuals in the military. However these homosexuals abide by the Don't Ask - Don't Tell policy, and their fellow members abide by the 'Don't Pursue' policy. Funny how that works though, liberals slam 'Don't ask, Don't tell' yet don't have a problem with the 'Don't pursue' part of the law.

- Traveler

13 posted on 02/06/2010 10:32:23 AM PST by Traveler59 (Truth is a journey, not a destination.)
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Yes it will. I retire this year, I have have served with several people that either we knew or suspected were gay. The DADT works well. I don't care if you gay, I just really don't want to know about your perverted lifestyle.
I would think an enlisted career would be a pay cut, and a job many of them wouldn't want in the first place.
14 posted on 02/06/2010 10:33:19 AM PST by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: Comparative Advantage
Bullshit.

It will drive well-qualified and morally healthy men and women out of the services.

15 posted on 02/06/2010 10:33:37 AM PST by Gritty (Without virtue, there can be no political liberty - John Adams)
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To: Comparative Advantage

We don’t need to end DODT, we need to end the female soldier thing, IMHO. There was a news story on last night and my wife asked me what I thought about it. My answer was this, “Let’s see, do those two words really go together, ‘pregnant soldier’?” Be serious. TO satisfy that idiot Senator from Colorado, Patsy Shcroeder, we have foisted a daycare requirement and welfare program on our Armed Forces. What a disaster it has been. Of course none of the “perfumed princes” will admit it.


16 posted on 02/06/2010 10:33:40 AM PST by wastoute
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To: Comparative Advantage

shall we allow cross dressers and then give them their own rooms and bathrooms? .

No one is discriminated against, the don’t ask is what homosexuals say they want and that is to keep their sexual perverted lifestyle private.

Gettign rid of don’t ask will not bring anything positive to the military and yet will bring a hell of a lot of problems

we have wars to be fought, we have Iran, N Korea, we have military cuts, we have China becoming a world power where we are not soon and yet Gates and the white hosue think this is important

If anyone is asking why is he dong this then the answer is easy
two fold
the military stands for traditions and morals , that is something the homosexuals hate

secondly Clinton failed like with the health care so obama is trying to prove and say look I passed what Clinton could not

this is all about gong against Clinton , remember when asked why he was doing this and that Clinton failed he replied “because you have me now”


17 posted on 02/06/2010 10:33:50 AM PST by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: Comparative Advantage

not


18 posted on 02/06/2010 10:35:28 AM PST by silverleaf (My Proposed Federal Budget is $29.99)
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Ending 'don't ask, don't tell' will draw well-qualified people into military careers

Instead of the poorly qualified straight people who are in the military now? Is that what you mean? Because that is what you implied.

Some people just need to be slapped.

19 posted on 02/06/2010 10:35:34 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (I miss the competent fiscal policy and flag waving patriotism of the Carter Administration)
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To: SumProVita

I served and would not serve again if they allowed open homo’s in the military, I do not want to witness homo parties on base, or homo pride parades nor do I want to share a room, shower etc with a homo.

I know guys still in who said they will leave and my two sons have now said they will not join either along with a couple of their friends .

so all they will do is to create problems in the military and will see a decline of good men and women not wanting to join but of course that doesn’t bother obama because he intends to build his million strong civilian security force to match that of the military and to be just as well funded


20 posted on 02/06/2010 10:36:43 AM PST by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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