Last I checked Lt. General, we have a civil right to our personal beliefs and convictions and that includes our troops and their deeply held convictions.
"...Service in the U. S. Marine Corps requires the loss of many liberties that civilians enjoy; especially, the right of association. Individual Marines cannot choose their leaders or with whom they will work and live. It is beyond governmental authority to force these Americans into situations that compromise their morals. The Selective Training & Service Act of 1940 permits the granting of Conscientious Objector status to “One who by reason of religious training and belief is conscientiously opposed to participation in war.” Little known is: People v. Stewart, 7 Cal. 143, “Conscientious Scruple. A conscientious scruple against . . . doing military duty, or the like is an objection or repugnance growing out of the fact that the person believes the thing demanded of him is morally wrong, his conscience being the sole guide to his decision . . . ” (Black's Law Dictionary). This “Conscientious Scruple” provision appears to give Marines of conscience a legal remedy for a morally compromising situation of serving under or with Marine homosexuals. Moreover, since there are evidently more persons of conscience in our society than homosexuals, the pool of potential recruits for the current all-volunteer Marine Corps will be reduced..."
http://www.thebutter-cutter.com/Marines_of_Conscience_or_Ho.php
remember just after DADT was passed you had a series of deaths of sailors accidentally falling overboard?
Well said and this LtGen is strongly suspect. I'd bet he didn't come up with these views until fairly recently, like when Zer0 became his boss.