Posted on 06/24/2013 9:01:14 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pentagon's LGBT 'Pride Month' Comes With a Poster June 24, 2013 - 11:12 AM By Susan Jones
(CNSNews.com) - On Tuesday, June 25, the U.S. Defense Department will give special recognition to "gay, lesbian and bisexual servicemembers" -- as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civilian workers -- for their "dedicated service to our country."
And this year, "Pride Month" at the Defense Department comes with a poster:
The red, white and blue poster -- designed for the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute located at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida -- includes the followiong quotation from President Barack Obama:
"For more than two centuries, we have worked to extend America's promise to all our citizens. Armed Forces have been both a mirror and a catalyst of that progress, and our troops, including gays and lesbians, have given their lives to defend the freedoms and liberties that we cherish as Americans."
OutServe-SLDN, an advocacy group for LGBT military personnel, called it "appropriate and gratifying" that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is following the precedent set in 2012 when then-Secretary Leon Panetta hosted the Pentagon's first LGBT Pride Month.
But the group isn't happy that the DOD memorandum announcing Tuesday's Pride event for gays, lesbians and bisexuals did not mention transgenders in uniform:
"While acknowledging transgender civilian DOD employees, the memorandum notably omits any mention of the contributions of transgender people in uniform -– presumably because transgender people remain barred from service by outdated and obsolete medical regulations.
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What utter nonsense...........
The country needs to look itself in the mirror for voting in this crap of people into office the past two elections.
Washington has gone nuts, and are drunk on their unimpeded power over the nation. This nonsense all starts and ends in the center of the Empire, Washington DC
This is satire right? Please tell this is from the Onion.
For more than two centuries, we have worked to extend America's promise to all our citizens. Armed Forces have been both a mirror and a catalyst of that progress, and our troops, including gays and lesbians, have given their lives to defend the freedoms and liberties that we cherish as Americans.
The freedoms and liberties Americans have fought and died to defend are the very freedoms and liberties President You Didn't Build That is doing his worst to destroy.
It's all about the self-gratification...
There ya go!
0 must make sure his fellow LGBT comrades are put on a pedestal. I really dont have a problem with them when they keep their mouths shut and keep it in the closet but its been a complete Broadway Liza Minelli styled and inspired gay fest all over the media the last 2 years. They need to keep gaypalooza suckfest out of the limelight.
Klinger wore dresses to get out of the Army, now, he’d get a promotion.
America has sunk to such jaw-dropping depths of corruption and (as with this) degeneracy. Makes me want to vomit.
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I don’t believe we can claim true progress until we have a transgendered member of the Joint Chiefs.
will security be taking notes of who attends in order to know exactly who is a prime security risk to the country?
“1:OO PM Pentagon Auditorium”
Attendance mandatory or else it will be duly noted in your personnel files.
Let the military be the most effective fighting machine the world has ever seen - don't sacrifice lives, morale and unit efficiency for the sake of what a gay or woman feels is their right. It is not.
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