Posted on 02/09/2016 5:57:06 AM PST by doldrumsforgop
The most disappointing moment of Saturday night’s debate came when Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, and Marco Rubio each embraced the idea that women should register with the selective service, making it possible for America to draft women into ground combat. The argument for registration is based on the new Pentagon policy opening up all combat jobs to women. Women have served in non-combat roles for decades without any serious push for selective-service registration ensuing. In fact, the Supreme Court, in Rostker v. Goldberg (1981), has used the fact that men and women have different roles as justification for rejecting constitutional objections to the all-male draft. We have repeatedly condemned the Obama administration’s decision to open all combat roles to women, and we have mainly done so by citing a combination of contemporary studies and historical experience to make the case that gender-integrated ground-combat units are less effective than their all-male counterparts. But that is not the only argument. Indeed, there are other fundamental reasons to oppose not just the presence of women in the infantry but their forcible conscription into its ranks. Such a policy inverts natural law and the rules that have grounded our civilization for thousands of years.
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Good point!
Last time I checked females in the service were the one demographic having children early. The military is a haven for unwed mothers.
A pertinent document:
“This is what happens when you don’t have a single GOP leader who has taken time to serve in any capacity (I don’t consider SC’s effeminate senator a veteran, although technically he is one). The current benchmark for ‘combat’ is Iraq and/or Afghanistan and that is a grave error.”
Rick Perry, who has dropped out like Lindsey, had an Air Force Commission.
“The military is a haven for unwed mothers.”
So true. My daughter is a social worker and used to travel to military bases to bring newly born kids out for adoption that were given up by the military mother.
True, I stand corrected; thank you.
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