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EDITORIAL: New gay Army--Top general calls Christian soldiers 'bigots'
The Washington Times ^ | September 16, 2010 | Editorial

Posted on 09/16/2010 5:17:29 PM PDT by jazusamo

Next week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to begin floor debate on a defense authorization bill that would repeal the Clinton-era "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and allow homosexuals to serve openly in the armed forces. Last month, a top military official offered a glimpse of how the military might look should the new policy take effect: Those serving who oppose the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) agenda are no longer welcome.

Those were the views of Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, the Army's deputy chief of staff in charge of personnel matters who spoke about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" before several hundred troops at the European Command headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. "Unfortunately, we have a minority of service members who are still racists and bigoted and you will never be able to get rid of all of them," Lt. Gen. Bostick said. "But these people opposing this new policy will need to get with the program, and if they can't, they need to get out. No matter how much training and education of those in opposition, you're always going to have those that oppose this on moral and religious grounds just like you still have racists today."

The strong words take additional significance from Lt. Gen. Bostick's direct involvement with a Pentagon panel charged with shaping military policy on this issue. Although Lt. Gen. Bostick presented the question of homosexuals in the military as if it were about civil rights, it is nothing of the kind. The services must discriminate to function. Those who are too old, too weak or too overweight must be shown the door even when similar actions in the private sector might spark a lawsuit.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: army; bigot; bostick; bosticksnewarmy; christian; dadt; dontask; dontaskdonttell; homosexualagenda; lgbt; tolerance; usarmy
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To: colorado tanker

Affirmative action of course.


21 posted on 09/16/2010 5:24:09 PM PDT by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: jazusamo
I find it incredible that he actually said those things.
FYI: Bio
22 posted on 09/16/2010 5:24:52 PM PDT by frankenMonkey (I can see November from my window...)
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To: jazusamo

Officers above the rank of CPT start becoming more politician then warrior. By the time they reach this guys rank damn few even remember what is was like decades before when they too were among the unwashed masses. Don’t be surprised when some one who as been drinking the kool-aid that long starts throwing up the shit he as made himself believe in order to gain his rank and position over the years. Its vile.


23 posted on 09/16/2010 5:24:53 PM PDT by WyvernAK (Knowledge is Power, ie Obama is in trouble)
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To: jazusamo

Let me guess, the General likes things up his a**


24 posted on 09/16/2010 5:25:49 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pvoce
NO SIR AT THE END OF THE FRICKIN' REPORTING STATEMENT TRANIEE!!!!

SIR TRANIEE BIGOT REPORTS AS ORDERED!

25 posted on 09/16/2010 5:26:25 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Lord help our Armed Service members that they not become pawns in Hussein's quest to destroy America)
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To: jazusamo
"Lt. Gen. Bostick of the New Army"


26 posted on 09/16/2010 5:26:25 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter (Obama: Another illegal alien living in public housing)
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To: colorado tanker

Just asking. Not to be a wise Guy But honest question. If you are in the army showers can they catcall a person. Also what if they are always eyeing( Obsession) the same sex while showering. Isn’t this one of many reasons not to have this rule. It sounds just NUTS!


27 posted on 09/16/2010 5:26:56 PM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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To: MrB

>>That’s the whole point, get the Christians and the conservatives out of the military,

We’ve all known that a time of terrible oppression against Christians was coming. It’s almost here.


28 posted on 09/16/2010 5:28:26 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Obama is like a rocket scientist....who's trying to do brain surgery with a hammer.)
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To: colorado tanker

This “general” is whistling in the wind on the bigot thing, he should be retired immediately.


29 posted on 09/16/2010 5:28:42 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Looks more like one of the Village People


30 posted on 09/16/2010 5:28:45 PM PDT by tophat9000 (.............................. BP + BO = BS ...........................Formula for a disaster...)
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To: jazusamo
You know what is nice about being retired Military....

I can call this guy a Jackass and you can qoute me...


31 posted on 09/16/2010 5:29:27 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Bryanw92

Which does beg an interesting question:

“If DADT is repealed, can Christians, or the Religious, in good conscience recommend to their adolescent children that they join the US Military”?

I honestly do not know, what I do believe is that once an Institution abandons it’s Moral Compass, it is doomed to defeat.


32 posted on 09/16/2010 5:30:50 PM PDT by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: dynachrome

http://www.grd.usace.army.mil/bio/bostick.pdf

General Bostick’s awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters), Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), Army Achievement Medal, Parachutist Badge, Ranger Tab, and Joint and Army Staff Identification Badges.

General Bostick is married and has a son in college.

2005


33 posted on 09/16/2010 5:33:05 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God's redemption.)
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To: KC_Lion
NO SIR AT THE END OF THE FRICKIN' REPORTING STATEMENT TRANIEE!!!! SIR TRANIEE BIGOT REPORTS AS ORDERED!

There WILL be a Sir in My Air Force, NOW GIVE ME A 341, Airman Puke! ;)

34 posted on 09/16/2010 5:33:49 PM PDT by pvoce ('Good' sense and 'Common' sense are two entirely different concepts.)
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To: jazusamo
In 2007 Bostick was featured in the "U. S. Black Engineers" magazine.

I wonder where the "U. S. White Engineer's" magazine is?

35 posted on 09/16/2010 5:34:15 PM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: jazusamo

Before DADT, if a soldier was identified as a homosexual, they were generally discharged, even honorably discharged, because as long as they were out of the military, nobody cared to punish them further.

However, DADT turned that situation around by creating a death penalty for homosexuals. To be identified, correctly or not, as a homosexual, meant that someone’s life was at risk.

This is because what many, many military personnel have is not “homophobia”, but what could more accurately be described as “homopsychosis.” It is a near instinctual prerogative that sees homosexuals as as an imminent threat.

And these otherwise good military personnel so far outnumber the potential number of homosexuals who would serve, that to dismiss them would be to utterly cripple the military. If they could be identified at all, which is unlikely.

The typical, stupid, military response to this fact is the insistence that instinctual fear can be overcome through training or indoctrination. Like training soldiers to run through a 8’ high column of flame, or throw themselves off a tall precipice, without anything to protect them, just because they are ordered to. Mindless, obedient robots.

It doesn’t work that way. Much easier would be if the homosexuals were murdered, then the murder was attributed to something, anything other than because of their sexuality. No problem. Training accident, on the job accident, slipped and fell down a flight of concrete stairs, etc.

Because they weren’t killed because they were homosexual, but in an armed robbery, say, then the entire command won’t be punished.

Granted, some commands are so wishy-washy that a homosexual could get along for a while. But eventually, they will meet up with a homopsychotic, and then it is only a matter of time.

And it doesn’t matter one damn bit what academics and squishy liberals think. A homosexual in uniform will be a dead homosexual, even if they don’t know it yet.


36 posted on 09/16/2010 5:36:04 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: sodpoodle

I stand, or sit, corrected. Thanks.


37 posted on 09/16/2010 5:36:11 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: jazusamo

Wake up folks. This is also the bill that comrade Reid will make hundreds of thousands of wetbacks citizens.That’s right, the camel is sticking his nose under the tent. This is the first step in the commies getting amnesty for all the illegals so they can vote Dim.


38 posted on 09/16/2010 5:37:02 PM PDT by taillightchaser
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To: jazusamo

This guy’s parachutist wings makes this old jumpmaster think he was a ROTC 5 jump chump. Probably picked his ranger tab during college break and then wore the badges as he had actually served, rather than just qualified.


39 posted on 09/16/2010 5:37:11 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: jazusamo

“Bigot” appears to be the new attempted insult word.

There was an insulting floozy airhead blond subbing for BOR a couple of weeks ago who called those of us “bigots” who disagreed with the mosque being built at the WTC.

She had so much hate in her voice.

I don’t know who she was since all Fox newsettes sport the same hairdo…blond with extensions a little longer than shoulder length and parted either on the side or in the middle.

They all look dumb too.


40 posted on 09/16/2010 5:37:35 PM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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