Jobs and the recession be damned. Obama rushes to pander to homosexual activists. Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families, has the story.
The President’s Priorities
It’s breathtaking how Democrat presidents insist on pushing radical agendas that the American people don’t want. Bill Clinton tried it and failed, but that’s not stopping Barack Obama. First he pushed socialized medicine, now he’s promoting open homosexuality in the military.
Friends, don’t be confused about this. The issue is not whether homosexuals can serve in the military, as Obama portrayed it in his State of the Union address. They can serve. They just can’t flaunt their orientation. The reasons are obvious. The military is a unique institution with the sole purpose of defending this country, not promoting radical agendas. In 1993, Congress codified several common sense regulations regarding military conduct, concluding that our Armed Forces constituted a “specialized society” that was “fundamentally different from civilian life” and “characterized by forced intimacy with little or no privacy.”
For example, imagine you have a daughter who serves in the military. Now imagine she tells you that effective immediately she must shower with men. We all know what that would do to morale and good order. If Obama gets his way, every heterosexual man or woman will put in the same difficult position by being forced to share showers and similar facilities with homosexual men or women. The damage to unit cohesion will be profound.
Recent polls of service members have found strong support for the existing policy. A 2008 survey conducted by the Military Times found that 58% of active duty members opposed lifting the ban on open homosexuality. The survey also found that nearly a quarter would consider leaving the service if the ban were repealed. While the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may support repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” our friends at the Center for Military Readiness note that nearly 1,200 “retired Flag & General Officers for the Military, 51 of them of four-star rank” have signed a statement of support for the existing policy.
Why would any commander-in-chief do anything in the middle of two wars that would significantly undermine morale and lead to a mass exodus of experienced personnel when we need them most? Sadly, the president’s priorities do not appear to include promoting the best interests of our men and women in the military; he’d rather promote the radical agenda of the militant homosexual movement that played a major role in funding his campaign.
TAKE ACTION: In the middle of two wars and with the economy burdened by double-digit unemployment, Congress is wasting time holding hearings on this issue. Call your senators and representative today at 202-224-3121. Tell them to drop this radical agenda and fix the economy first!
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