Exactly, this judges' decision does not take into account that it is Congress' job to regulate the military for VICTORY ON THE BATTLEFIELD. The survival of the nation is at stake. That's why the military discriminates against fat people, females, flat-footed people, those with diabetes, and those with physical and mental infirmities.
We do not have a wheel-chair brigade for a damn good reason.
Recently, the Center for Disease Control REFUSED to allow gays to donate blood. And this is to civilians. And it's for a good reason: gays are notoriously exposed to a huge variety of blood-borne germs that make their blood dangerous.
Yet this clown of a judge thinks that's OK for our troops. Not OK for civilians, but OK for the troops. And just where does this judge think that military units get their transfusion blood when the blood bank runs low?
In short, the Congress must make a military decision aimed at victory in war and it must not be muddied by any other concern about equal opportunity, social engineering, and the best guests at the liberal think-tank dinners.
If judges can tell Congress how to regulate the military in this, then they can tell them to choose F16s over F22s, AK47s over M16s, and pontoon boats over aircraft carriers. I'm sure they could use the commerce clause to justify all of the above.
Zackly.
DADT was a clever work-around. It was presented as an Executive Order, and it didn’t say gays cant serve. It just said, “I don’t wanna hear about it.” And this is perfectly acceptable in that once in the military you no longer have individual rights as civilians do. Why? Because we need to have discipline and cohesion to win battles and wars. No other reason.
Gays serve. I respect anyone who serves for their service, regardless. I have known drunks and wife-beaters and all kinds of people who were just wrong in their personal lives who served. Outside of their service, they still get judged for who they are and what they do. Inside the terms of their service, they are to be judged by their performance of their service.
So is the gay issue really the issue at hand? No. The Constitution is the issue at hand.
Were there gays serving in Washington’s army?
WHO CARES?
If we want to maintain this republic, we must maintain the rule of law. In this country, that’s the Constitution.
Gates in unelected and can’t be tossed except to toss this administration when the time comes.
Until then, Congress needs to be motivated, and other members of the military community - inside and outside the bureaucracy - to assert the proper jurisdictional rules.
Getting mad at gays in this case is stupid. It’s the trap the left has set for us. It’s easily avoided. The Founding Father’s left us very clear instructions. They fought for it with everything they had.
We deserve to honor that if we want to earn the legacy they left us...Not for the sake of tradition or patriotism, but simply because it’s right.