Posted on 06/09/2010 11:45:57 AM PDT by DesertRenegade
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee says he opposes repealing the 17-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" ban on gays serving openly in the military.
Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., told reporters Tuesday that he traveled throughout his congressional district over the Memorial Day recess, shortly after the House voted to repeal the ban, and the issue "just wasn't raised" by his constituents.
Skelton said he still opposes the bill because he wants troops' opinions surveyed first.
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Thank you IKE SKELTON. One of a handful of honorable democrats.
Ike’s got a rural, conservative district.
Ike voted for Cap & Trade.
“Would we permit normal straight soldiers to shower and bunk with nude women? Hello?”
Considering that we are constantly told by the progressives that homosexuality has to be treated as equal to heterosexuality there should also be the same type of segregation of facilities (bunks, showers, etc…) that exist based upon discriminating against heterosexuality for homosexuality.
If this plan of the democrats to lift DADT passes then troops should band together and sue the government for violations of their civil rights. No man or woman in the military should be forced to shower or bunk with people who are openly expressing a perversion for their same gender.
Regarding Congressional legislation to scrap “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, advocates rely for foundational credibility on the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). The APA responded to a two year campaign Newsweek described as ongoing disruptive, chaotic attacks on psychiatrists and physiologists. Yet at this annual meeting and throughout this period of disruptive attacks, no papers were presented refuting any research previously done.
Eventually a third of APA’s 17,000 plus membership voted for removal. The under-voting and public attacks support the understanding that the decision came through intimidation, and not as a result of scientific reasoning. The process for this protracted dispute institutionalized an alternative to undergoing the mental stress and discipline of research. Now an interest group could publicly market their claim, and tailor the DSM to fit their agenda. Therefore, the way opened for the DSM to accumulate political manifestos and marketing brochures as much as attempts at scientific exposition.
After this mercurial, but unsubstantiated, decision a task force was established to ensure perpetual sanctity for this APA action. No research papers would again arise to confirm initial therapy success rates of 30% to 60 %, which substantiated other research that 7 of 10 homosexuals could eventually walk away from the lifestyle forever. This new task force would set standards for peer review of articles to ensure appropriate flexibility in design definitions, outcomes, and analytical models. Acceptable pre-ordained theses would compile selected human data points, using selected questions and behaviors, and arrive at pre-approved incites.
Psychology and Psychiatry have chosen to abandon all pretense of scientific rigor in exchange for popular societal and political acclaim. The barriers erected to meaningful research about homosexuality remind me of Genesis 3:23-24. In these verses the Lord God banished humanity from the Garden of Eden and placed an angel in the Garden to keep humanity away forever. By their actions, Psychology and Psychiatry appear content within their own Garden of Eden. They seem to consider the accoutrements of a religion to be more attractive than those of a science.
Base antidotal prattle dominates a current fraudulent debate, because these two disciplines cannot make a meaningful contribution. They should lead a debate, which would examine whether any mental disorders are acceptable for people seeking or retaining military service. Instead they underwrite the thoughtless political and societal acclamation keynoting discussions. In such an environment, there is little chance people will consider military service should always be the ultimate meritocracy. There can be no compromises in struggles to defeat enemies unconcerned with social engineering.
Ike is a Rat at the end of the day. He will bow in obeisance to his handlers like all demoscum, NONE of which are conservative or “moderate.”
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