A free society is one in where people get to live the way they want.
I always thought the ban on gays serving in the military made no sense because I have a libertarian view that what consenting adults do in the bedroom is no one else’s business.
Unfortunately, I don’t see that tolerance reciprocated on the Left for people who believe in traditional marriage, want kids raised in a home with a father and a mother, people who believe in our flag and in standing up for our national anthem, people who believe our Second Amendment right guarantees our First, people who believe in religious liberty and people who believe a nation is a place with borders and common values.
That’s what most of us believe. The Democrats are minority party today because they have chased out every one who doesn’t toe the leftist litmus test. When you can’t build coalitions with people who think differently, your ability to government is non-existent.
Conservatives may not be able to overcome the pervasively liberal culture. But they will gradually find a way to make themselves heard. Because we know who we are and what we believe in and our idea of tolerance is respecting how other people choose to live their lives even if its not how we prefer to live.
Liberals may think have won our culture wars hand down. They should think again.
On homosexuals in military forces, combat MOS (specialty) soldiers on duty all share the same bedroom and in close proximity, whether in barracks or in the field. And there’s no freedom.
>>I always thought the ban on gays serving in the military made no sense because I have a libertarian view that what consenting adults do in the bedroom is no one else’s business.
Becuase they DON’T restrict it to their bedroom because the military doesn’t get bedrooms. No one wants to wake up to a surprise hand job when you suddenly realize that you are at sea...on a submarine...and the homo cook got confused and thought he was doing his boyfriend a favor and reached behind the wrong curtain.
The ban on gays in the military had to do, as Norman Schwarzkopf said, with homosexuality’s incompatibility with close order drill and dozens of other situations unique to the military. As it turned out, ‘we just want to serve’ was the usual anodyne thin end of the wedge and now we see Pacific naval bases having Drag Night and so forth.
——That’s what most of us believe. ——
That is not reflected by the Presidential election. Hillary won the popular vote. There are more of them than of us. Were it not for a very charismatic leader emerging, we would not be in power.
At best the conservative/moderate coalition is at breakeven.
You are an idiot then. Can you admit that it is a crazy thing now? Libertarians tried to pawn off their f'ed up semi liberal globalist up ideology as conservative - IT IS NOT. We true patriots are rebuking it daily. Limbaugh has been gas-lighting 'normals" for yeas trying to get them into thinking libertarianism is the same as conservatism. He is dead wrong.
Are there any mental illnesses you consider to be incompatible with military service?
Soldiers live in barracks, and other tight quarters - not in bedrooms. In spite of strong proscriptions against sexual deviancy in the military, homos will eventually act on their impulses anyway, which is bad for troop morale.
Rules of conduct in the military aren't arbitrary. They arose from centuries of war fighting experience, and most are designed to save lives and to maintain a better fighting force than our enemies.