Posted on 03/26/2010 10:25:46 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
Legislation (H.R. 1283) has been introduced in the 111th Congress to repeal the 1993 statute regarding homosexuals in the military, Section 654, Title 10, U.S.C., which is frequently mislabeled “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” In anticipation of this action, a number of retired flag and general officers decided that it would be important to show support for this law, which was written to protect unit cohesion and morale in our military.
Congress approved the statute in 1993 with bipartisan, veto-proof majorities in both houses, and federal courts have upheld it as constitutional several times.
We believe firmly that this law deserves continued support.
This is a list of 1,163 distinguished retired military leaders from all branches of the service who have shown their support for the 1993 law with personal signatures requested and received by regular mail. The list (as of February 2010) includes two former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, several Service Chiefs, a number of combatant command, theater, and other major U.S. and allied force commanders, together with two Medal of Honor recipients and hundreds of retired flag and general officers who have led the men and women of our armed services at every echelon, in both peace and war, past and present:
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http://cmrlink.org/CMRDocuments/FGOM-SigList%281087%29-033109.pdf
this is one of the most impressive lists of signatories
for any issue , ever , in the entire history of our Republic.
Since the original Signers of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence .
Our ,ahem , leadership would do well to pay attention to what these good men and women are saying . They get it
Liz Cheney now works for Mitt Romney.
The anti-social conservative crowd are winning.
I came up against this sentiment recently ; A gentleman and Vietnam vet , who had always been opposed to both the gay lifestyle and certainly gays in the military , came to find out that his own son was gay . Suddenly HE was forced to reevaluate HIS stands about homosexuality , and he became much more agreeable and tolerant to it , out of love for his son , not because he experience an epiphany that sodomy was suddenly Ok and somehow not abhorrent to God or contrary to nature . He then proceeded to criticize me for ‘having the nerve’ to suggest that gays were in any way less capable of serving in front line combat units than straights. His sons behaviors brought on this change in views for him , just as Dick Cheney’s daughter forced him to make approx the same accommodation. So it begs the question ; Do their circumstances have any bearing on the actual realities on the ground for the rest of society ? Or could they have somehow ‘done a better job’ in steering their own offspring so they would not have ended up embracing this lifestyle ?
I believe their outcomes are NOT a valid argument that should affect the rest of us .
How could Cheney be so shallow, the vice president of the United States suddenly decides to homosexualize the United States Military because he finds out that his daughter likes girls?
The Cheneys have issues, have they ever been socially conservative in a determined way?
Dick Cheney is a member of the political establishment who pursued two wars against Iraq that were fine in my book, unlike the Paulistas.
He started out on my radar when I was a teenager. Dick Cheney was White House Chief of Staff to RINO President Gerald Ford, later he was a congressman from Wyoming with a very conservative voting record.
But what other kind of voting record would a congressman from Wyoming have?
Cheney was always more RINO than conservative in my book.
His support of Kay Bailey Hutchison for Texas governor this year illustrates that.
Over the years, the mainstream media has dubbed a number of actually moderate Republicans as “conservatives.”
I consider Cheney to be one of them.
It has always depended upon whose ox is gored. The subject matter makes no difference - we can be detached and principled until our human nature kicks in. Old as time - blood has always been thicker than water. It’s how every gang-banging drive-by shooter was good boy, always went to church, was trying to change, etc. in his grandma’s eyes.
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