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Obama: Commander in chief must back gay troops
CBS News / The Associated Press ^ | October 1, 2011

Posted on 10/02/2011 1:56:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

President Barack Obama sharply rebuked his Republican rivals Saturday, saying anyone who wants to be commander in chief must support the entire U.S. military, including gay service members.

A combative Obama criticized Republican presidential candidates for staying silent when the crowd at a recent debate booed a gay soldier who asked a question of the contenders via videotape.

"You want to be commander in chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient," Obama said during remarks at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights organization.

Referencing the boos at the Sept. 22 Republican debate, he said: "We don't believe in standing silent when that happens."

Obama touted his administration's efforts to repeal the military's ban on openly gay service members, as well as his orders to the Justice Department to stop enforcing a law defining marriage as between one man and one woman...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; homosexualmarriage; obama
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To: lentulusgracchus

I wonder if the vast left wing conspiracy realizes by homsexualizing the military, they closed off the last cultural relief valve for the red blooded conservative Americans. The LAST reason to even pretend that FedGov™ had some credibility just went away. Now the pressure builds, this isn’t going to end well, FOR THEM.


101 posted on 10/02/2011 5:59:48 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Ann Archy
Hummm... Sorry to ask but is it the only the “anal” part that is the problem? What do we do with heterosexuals who have “practice” the same? Are they EEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL as well? What is Evil?
102 posted on 10/02/2011 6:00:32 AM PDT by ToxicMich (If I catch you sleeping in this space AGAIN, I'M GONNA KICK YOUR # "?/%")
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To: Byzantine Basileus

You make no attempt to argue or persuade, rather, you dismiss argument summarily. To trade with you is pointless.


103 posted on 10/02/2011 6:01:00 AM PDT by TalBlack ( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Ann Archy

Agnostic with occasional leanings to Deist.


104 posted on 10/02/2011 6:01:50 AM PDT by Byzantine Basileus
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To: rbmillerjr

Well then, if they don’t get through training, then there isn’t a problem.


105 posted on 10/02/2011 6:02:35 AM PDT by Byzantine Basileus
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To: ToxicMich

When hetero’s start have Anal Pride parades get back to me.


106 posted on 10/02/2011 6:03:55 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Ann Archy

No, I am definitely not a democrat.

Sleeping from a gay person? Wouldn’t bother me.

Shower? Wouldn’t bother me.

I think anybody would save their lover first. It’s human nature.


107 posted on 10/02/2011 6:04:18 AM PDT by Byzantine Basileus
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To: lentulusgracchus; Byzantine Basileus
with both fines and prison in the scales

For your information, the human Canadian Rights Commission doesn’t have the power to imprison people…

108 posted on 10/02/2011 6:04:46 AM PDT by ToxicMich (If I catch you sleeping in this space AGAIN, I'M GONNA KICK YOUR # "?/%")
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To: Byzantine Basileus
>>Could someone provide me a reason why homosexuals should not be allowed to serve in the military? Keep in mind I am secular conservative, so religious arguments do not appeal to me.<<

Look up the secular history of Sodom and Gamorah.

109 posted on 10/02/2011 6:04:56 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: central_va

It’s just that it disturbs me to when somebody equates Anal Sex with Pro-Abortion... Makes no logical sense...


110 posted on 10/02/2011 6:07:46 AM PDT by ToxicMich (If I catch you sleeping in this space AGAIN, I'M GONNA KICK YOUR # "?/%")
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To: kabar
The military should not be a social engineering lab. Its purpose is to defend this nation. Aything that impairs the ability to do that is wrong.

Thank you, my point exactly. And now, since DADT repeal has been shoved down our throats, they want transgenders in the service. See the can of worms this whole repeal has opened? Imagine what happens if they make same sex marriage legal, then it will be anything goes.

111 posted on 10/02/2011 6:10:24 AM PDT by stratman1969 (Run, Sarah, Run - 2012!)
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To: Byzantine Basileus

“Well then, if they don’t get through training, then there isn’t a problem.”

Basic training in the Army and in the Marines is for pussies.

Real soldiering happens in the unit...As I said, they are not good soldiers and they eventually lose credibility as leaders.

The military is not meant to be a bunch of fairies making finicky emotional decisions. THEY CAN’T FRACKING SOLDIER.

Now, address my concern of military effectiveness dirt bag


112 posted on 10/02/2011 6:10:42 AM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This scheming little commie bastard is ruining our economy, our medical system, our children's future and our political discourse and now he's hell-bent on destroying our military.

A pox on him!

113 posted on 10/02/2011 6:15:03 AM PDT by Gritty (There's no other way to say it... (Obama is) an enemy within - Matt Barber)
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To: Byzantine Basileus
You didn't read what it said. The tragedy of this is the Female wives and their children being exposed to this on Military Base Housing. This is just so wrong in so many ways. If you want to post on FR, read and try to keep with the conversation.
114 posted on 10/02/2011 6:24:56 AM PDT by cameraeye (A happy kuffir!)
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To: rbmillerjr

In the Australian army, openly homosexual soldiers have been serving since 1992. No great moral collapse has occured, nor has the effectiveness of the military declined.


115 posted on 10/02/2011 6:28:13 AM PDT by Byzantine Basileus
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To: Byzantine Basileus; central_va
>>Are you willing to cast out a person who believes in such things, just because that person has a different view of homosexuality?<<

Cancer in an organism cannot be allowed to remain. It needs to be eliminated or cut out. If a person has a cancerous lung they cut it out. This site is for God, family, country, in that order. Those denying the first usually don’t last long here.

116 posted on 10/02/2011 6:28:15 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear

Well, you are welcome to get my account suspended if you do not believe a conservative has a place on this site.


117 posted on 10/02/2011 6:30:18 AM PDT by Byzantine Basileus
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To: Byzantine Basileus
>>Well, you are welcome to get my account suspended if you do not believe a conservative has a place on this site.<<

Not my job. My guess is the boss isn’t up yet (California) or you would have been gone already.

118 posted on 10/02/2011 6:34:23 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: central_va

If I were profiling, this guy’s description of himself would raise a huge red flag.


119 posted on 10/02/2011 6:35:22 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet


120 posted on 10/02/2011 6:35:25 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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