Posted on 12/19/2010 8:43:08 AM PST by Comparative Advantage
The military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy regarding gays in the military is over. The lame-duck Senate passed legislation ending the policy today by the overwhelming margin of 65-31; all that awaits is President Obama's signature, which is a certainty. The legislation couldn't have passed without Republicans, including the Tea Party insurgent Scott Brown and Ron Kirk, who won Obama's old Illinois seat in November. It fell to the doddering old war hero and loser of 2008, John McCain, to argue against the policy (and McCain's position was undermined by his wife's and his daughter's public opposition to DADT).
The end of DADT will be hailed as a groundbreaking achievement, like the racial desegregation of the military in 1948. But race is an involuntary characteristic that becomes irrelevant so long as the minority service member conforms to the military's behavioral and performance norms. Proclaiming one's sexual orientation and acting upon it is voluntary, not involuntary. Thus, homosexuals will be given not equality, but preferential treatment, based on chosen behavior. Why, then, draw the line at homosexuality? Why should the military discriminate against service members who announce proclivities for transsexuality, polygamy, bestiality or pedophilia?
What will be the effect of the end of DADT? The short-term effects will probably be minimal. The military won't be overrun by homosexuals anytime soon. It's unlikely that very many gays, who constitute a tiny fraction of the population, want to serve in the military anyway. But the cultural shift in the military will be dramatic. The military will be forced to deal with issues like anti-gay discrimination (real or imagined), how to deal with transsexuals, gay marriage, and benefits for gay partners. There will be gay affirmative-action quotas, gay cliques and subcultures, and you can be sure that in the future, there'll be some gay equivalent of the "Tailhook" scandal. A military that is in the process of losing it's second decade-long war in Asia to ragtag insurgents needs none of this. But the military, with its "can-do" ethos, will deal with it.
The consequences for cultural conservatism are much more acute, though. Repeal of DADT means that homosexuality will officially no longer constitute "conduct unbecoming" of a professional soldier. This amounts to a de facto sanction of homosexuality as normal and acceptable.
With the repeal of DADT, cultural conservatives will no longer control any institutions in American society. The military, the last bastion of cultural conservatism to which Americans rallied en masse after 9/11, has now been conscripted by the Left. The military is the final institution to fall in what Roger Kimball described as the "Long March" of cultural Leftism through America's institutions that began in the Sixties. The academy, the churches, the courts and the government have long since fallen.
In the 30 years since the election of Reagan, cultural conservatives have failed to overturn Roe v. Wade, suppress pornography, stop gay marriage, or make a serious dent in the use of illegal drugs. Conservative activist Paul Weyrich noted that Clinton's high public approval rating in the wake of the Lewinsky sex scandal meant that a "Moral Majority" no longer existed in the U.S.
Polls indicating overwhelming public support for ending DADT reaffirm that Weyrich's observation was surely correct.
We already have coliseums in every good-sized American city... :-)
LOLOL!!!
What does Lakin have to do with DADT?
Things are only going to get worse. There has to be a way to overturn this.
There is. Elect into office those candidates who make overturning this an issue.
“They haven’t infiltrated my mind or heart.”
There you have it. No government (except the Kingdom of God) is up to the evils of the human heart. . and the Kingdom of God is in the heart, then in the mind. The laws of God in His kingdom have to be written by Him in the heart and in the mind, and we have to ask the Holy Spirit, through Christ, to do it for us, to live in us.
How about a nude leapfrog competition?
In anticipation of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, in 2007, the Pentagon prepared a list of new or reinterpreted nomenclature and practices familiar to many older veterans. The gay EM who supplied Wikileaks sent us a copy just before his arrest. Some of the more interesting items are below.
All marching commands ending in “March” will now end in either “MINCE” or “SWISH,” at the option of the individual issuing the command;
The command “Right dress right,” will be replaced with “Right strapless evening gown, allrighty;”
Due to the distinct possibility that it may be misinterpreted, the command “To the Rear March” will be replaced with “OK, Fellas, Turn Around;”
Marching cadences employing “Jodie” will now replace that archaic appellation with the more metro-sexually appropriate “Brucie:”
The humorous but now out-dated phrase “Drop your c**ks and grab your socks” is to be replaced with “Drop your c**ks and grab the fella’s over there;”
A “Junk on the bunk” inspection will now allow a soldier’s “junk” to actually be displayed on his bunk;
If it will not interfere with “his” duties, a “Latrine Queen” may wear a pair of high heel pumps if they are OD in color;
The rank of “Private” will be replaced with “Newby.”
For those still smoking, as it could lead to serious unit cohesion break-down, the phrase “Field strip that butt” will no longer be used.
As we did deeper into the documents we were provided, we will add other changes.
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Gays are running the country.
Of course, the inclusion of the term “Blow” in this title was simply inadvertent, right? :-))
And don't forget sensitivity training.
The fallout from DADT repeal will not be as fortuitous for the gay agenda as we may think.
Gays will not be the only people filing discrimination and/or harassment suits.
“He made an unwanted pass at me,” will be hard to defend.
And it will look bad for gays in the cultural media.
When a straight soldier is accused of harassment, it just reinforces the cultural stereotype of the macho soldier.
When a gay soldier is accused, it will reinforce the image of homosexual-deviants, distractions, and unseriousness.
Even a brain-dead “no tolerance” policy is more likely to affect gays more than straights.
I think these people may end up regretting their “success.”
It will bring back the draft. If that happens it is the ONLY good that can come from this Obmanation.
I still think that the “happies” who go in out should have to wear pink berets so all will know how to properly interact with same.
Grouped By Vote Position
| YEAs ---65 | ||
| Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Begich (D-AK) Bennet (D-CO) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Brown (R-MA) Burr (R-NC) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Coons (D-DE) Dodd (D-CT) Dorgan (D-ND) Durbin (D-IL) Ensign (R-NV) Feingold (D-WI) |
Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN) Gillibrand (D-NY) Hagan (D-NC) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Johnson (D-SD) Kerry (D-MA) Kirk (R-IL) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) McCaskill (D-MO) Menendez (D-NJ) Merkley (D-OR) Mikulski (D-MD) Murkowski (R-AK) |
Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Nelson (D-NE) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Schumer (D-NY) Shaheen (D-NH) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (D-PA) Stabenow (D-MI) Tester (D-MT) Udall (D-CO) Udall (D-NM) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (D-VA) Webb (D-VA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR) |
| NAYs ---31 | ||
| Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Bennett (R-UT) Bond (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) |
DeMint (R-SC) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Kyl (R-AZ) LeMieux (R-FL) Lugar (R-IN) |
McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Wicker (R-MS) |
| Not Voting - 4 | ||
| Bunning (R-KY) Gregg (R-NH) |
Hatch (R-UT) Manchin (D-WV) |
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Snowe, Ensign, Brown, Ensign and Hatch are up in 2012.
Collins is up in 2014.
Burr is not up till 2016 (he thinks we'll forget)
perversion is rampant and celebrated in America.
I dare the Republican party to ask me for money now. I dare them.
The commandant for the Marines needs to be brought front and center and allowed to speak.
I also believe this CAN be repealed. A study—a review that should be petitioned after more conservative victories in 2012—will show, no doubt, the embrace of sodomites is costing lives and money to our military. The American people do not want our armed forces compromised, and they’ll agree to ending this crap.
Very good. I thought of that. The sense of approval the now open “gays” feel may cause them to act more boldly sexually and end up committing sexual harassment and other violations of the military morality codes. Of course our enemies will have further cause to destroy “The Great Satan”. There is no question the divisiveness this “gay” activism will cause will give aid and comfort to our enemies.
Still, the damage will be done by the same activists who brought this fight to the military. The homosexual lobby are mostly front groups for neo-Marxist goals (See:http://catholicinsight.com/online/features/article_882.shtml) and the lawsuits will stress the military to its core. They will demand on base marriages, events, Stonewall etc...parties, so called, “Pride” marches. All corrosive of our military cohesion and moral and further feminize our heterosexual men into “girlie men”.
The purpose of the military is to destroy the enemy and defend our nation, not a petri dish for political experiments.
Beware the enemy within.
Not if they are the "cultural media."
copy tha.
The NEA and hollywood has the younger generation brainwashed. All polling data shows they think different from those who came before on these issues and that its getting worse. So long as the public school system is producing millions of pro-queers a year we are in trouble. As current voters age out (so to speak) and are replaced by this younger generation the chances of queer marriage keep going up. The tide must be turned soon or else it never will be.
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