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Barack Obama's Military Adviser Says to Stick With Gay Ban

October 31, 2008 04:27 PM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link | Print

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to nicholas of MA

As a gay man i believe that sas a person I am entitled to basic human rights! As for the Pediophilic comment if you do the research buddy a majority of sex offenders are heterosexuals with wives/ girlfriends. Just because your gay doesn't mean we don't wanna protect or serve our country like any other proud american. As far as orhanages and their rights if you do the correct research gay parents are just good as parents as heterosexuals. If you also so the research our parenterships last just as long as heterosexual marriages. The divorce rate in our country is obsence among heterosexuals so who's to say that we can't get married. Also, how do gays getting married affect you unless your going to the wedding it doesn't.

Not Don't Ask, Don't Tell, BUT DON'T DO. PERIOD.

Homosexual perversion within our heterosexual Human Race is,has been,and always will be both sexually and socially cannibalistic and agonistic to our Species! Many of us liberals didnt understand this when we were suckered into the "oppression of gays thing" back in the day. We thought only of a few "gays" here and there "in the privacy of their own bedrooms" and never considered the darker implications of aggressive macho homo men and women creating a prison-house effect in "Our" society and a living hell for our kids and their parents and especially our orphanage children(Do they have a say, rights? Where? When?

)We forgot about the Greek Pediophilic link to the homo phiosophy.

The health, equipoise, harmony,cohesion, unity and overall happiness of the Human Race is irrevocably dependent upon the Universal Principle of Complimentary Oppositarianism.

Homosex VIOLATES this universal operating design, just as sure as if one were to dishonestly displace the sequence of north/south or positive/negative magnets in a generator or alternator! Plain speaking it is RAPE i.e.VIOLATION. Look it up!

The true and only purpose of "same-sex" fraternity is to form a reliable ASEXUALITY that is social psychologically speaking, supportive of work,social intimacy and ultimately individual opposite sex success for both genders.Homosex "actors" are in fact imposters. They have all the right business equipment just no business plan. Or the wrong plan anyway. Thats how we know the whole homosexual identity thing is a scam. Everybody, even "they" knew/know that.

The contiued psychosexual disection of society beginning now in the first and second grade with State Sanctioned homosex normalization using graphic models of same sex sex acts in Massachusetttes Public Schools make this debate about military service absurdand actually a cover-up.

For if we are willing to RAPE our own children for the pleasure of HOMOSEXualists moral and sexual GRATIFICATION who gives s a hoot what adults in the military are going to have to deal with? Get It.

Regardless of one's religious orientation, all of this must ultimately be seen not as a battle between "us" and "them" or between us and Madison Avenue, Hollywood, The Fortune 500 or Fashion Ave. but as the inescapable culmination of HETEROSEXAL EXCESS,UNTO ITSELF;sexual cannibalism. And yes,Godlessnes inevitably does lead to lawlessness .

way to go obama

not only have you backed out of promises youve made but now you want to start a whole new problem the policy is fine that is in place i dont have any hatred towards gays but nor do i believe that i should have to deal with being hit on or looked at sexually when im trying to fullfill a mission dont try to compare it to racial intergration cause i dont see black men eye balling white men in the shower

To Ralph Mizell of SC

Hey buddy, how about learning to type in english? And what branch of the military is the Nave? I mean, I've heard of the Navy, but im not sure if i'd belive u served 24 years and not even know how to spell it... hahaha. Nice try, hick.

To Ralph Mizell of SC

Hey buddy, how about learning to type in english? And what branch of the military is the Nave? I mean, I've heard of the Navy, but im not sure if i'd belive u served 24 years and not even know how to spell it... hahaha. Nice try, hick.

Out of Touch

The General is simply out of touch on this issue. This is not Korea in the 1950's.

From my experience, DADT HURTS unit cohesion.

When I was in bootcamp, the night watch 'thought' he caught two guys in the back of the barracks doing something. It was 3 days before graduation - and everyone knew that the fastest way out of bootcamp was to graduate. Some guys wanted to turn them in - I forced the issue and said we weren't gonna do a damn thing. And we didn't. And everyone went their way. Nothing happened.

When I was stationed in Key West, I was afraid to visit all the gay bars (etc...) because it was such a small island it seemed like all the military stationed there knew each other - and people gossip. So I did nothing. And in my personal life... Nothing Happened.

When I was stationed in Pensacola, a fresh new officer in flight school, I discovered the internet. As you can guess, Something Happened! But I wasn't out to my friends or co-workers, as I still wasn't even comfortable in my own skin. So pretty much, nothing happened.

When I was stationed in California, an aviator in a squadron on a big boat full of men (and at that point not many women) I became sick of lying - as it tends to eat someone up inside when their lives feel like a lie. I wasn't really part of the squadron because I felt like I was always hiding my real life from the squadron. So I started my version of 'Pick Who To Tell' - very carefully calculated on my chances of not being outed. And Something Happened again. Suddenly I was part of a group, who didn't care that I was gay... to the last one secure enough in themselves not to worry about being stuck on the ship with a gay man. You see, it's my opinion that being gay in the military under 'DADT' leads to a unit, squadron, or whatever being weaker than it could be otherwise - if only some people can get over their prejudices.

I only once had to remind someone that 'knew' that just as they didn't honestly want to sleep w/ every woman on the planet, I didn't want to have sex with every man I saw. I told him that he was pretty damn ugly to me.

Officers knew, some enlisted knew. And Nothing Happened.

So..my experience w/ being gay in the Navy was a relatively positive one - but I left because I didn't want to 'pick who to tell' anymore. I always received the EP on my evals, and I was always the best (or damn close) at what I did. If you ask around enough, you'll see that the gay people in the military are often (but not always) the overachievers - with a feeling of needing to prove themselves. The Navy lost me, and others that I know of who were damn good at (and loved) their jobs, without the need of a discharge. We just served our time and left when we were finally fed up with it.

I wonder how many else have done that?

hmmmm

well i'm an open lesbian but have no intention of hitting on anyone in my unit when i join up next year.. does this mean i shouldn't serve? i mean i will hide it and not tell a soul for the sake of my career but is that really neccessary..?

homosexuals arn't perverts or sexual deviants and would only come out the same way i do now.. on a need or want to know basis.. i'm not looking for a lover but a military career..

repeal the ban so i can be myself without fear of persecution.. this country has taken enough of my civil liberties away and if i'm so willing to serve a country willing to do this maybe they should be more willing to protect my rights...

Do Russia or China have homosexuals in the Military?

Think about it. Homosexuality might work in European countries. But Americans in the military tend to be very conservative. When you throw in the American gays seem much more militant compared to their european counterparts who seeminly have nothing to prove you can see why this analogy doesn't work.

This general is right. Multirace units worked in the US Military because it was a ground swell with leaders pulling for it.

That same kind of acceptance is not going to happen in Iraq or Afghanistan in 2008 with homosexuals, no way.

Why? It's not just about skin color, it's about behavior.

In addition to this the Bible calls sodomy and abomination.

In the Middle ages illiterate people got the message when they saw satan portrayed as a sodomous figure.

America is getting away from God and the Bible. If you want America to be destroyed by fire and brimstone from heaven then fine, go ahead and support this perverted dirty life style.

Gays in Military

Please, Please President-Elect Obama don't change the" Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy for Gay's in the military. As a retirement Coast Guard Officer I and other retirees and active duty members believe the present policy is sufficient. A change to allow open homosexuals in the military will cause more problems than it is worth.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell Costly in the War on Terror

The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy has probably cost American lives in the War on Terror. 58 Arabic translators and over 11,000 military personnel have been kicked out after their sexuality was revealed -- sometimes wrongly outed by fellows, as in this case of a translator who was outed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/opinion/08benjamin.html

Can we afford to keep kicking people out of the military who wish to serve this country? Especially in the area of intelligence-gathering in the War on Terror?

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