I asked
"Jedidah, are you really calling for conservatives to shut up and ignore the onslaught of homo’s in the military?"
You said "Of course not."
FRiend —
My dad fought on the front lines in WWII. There are lots of military in my family. I admire and respect our armed forces, and the whole DADT issue has irritated me from the beginning.
As you can tell from my previous posts, I come at this from a morality standpoint. I hate bad behavior, and homosexuality, according to scripture and most of society, is bad behavior.
However, that said, I am increasingly puzzled as to what benefit DADT is to homosexuals.
In the past, they’ve been able to serve by simply keeping their deviancy quiet.
Now they’ll be outed. Bullseye on their back. Before, were I a normal heterosexual soldier, I could undress and shower and be ogled by the queer in the next bunk. Now I know who he is and can take protective measures.
This whole discussion has, as I said in previous posts, just allowed the gay community to gain sympathy with their whines about equal rights.
I’m just tired of hearing about it. Let them serve openly. If they cross the line in behavior, let military standards of behavior lower the boom and fellow soldiers shun them.
Which is, frankly, how we got in this mess in the first place. As I said, our society nowadays will put up with anything, and this whole issue is a reflection of that.
We can squawk all day about DADT, but it’s just a symptom of much bigger problems. We have lost our moral compass, and decadent behavior has infested our most cherished institutions.
Perhaps the good people of the Tea Party can begin to change attitudes.
If you haven’t seen this, here’s Allen West on DADT. A brilliant answer to a gotcha question:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVQ14IgCDE8