The military allows lesbians and homosexuals in their number as long as they keep it to themselves. The military does not allow homosexual advocacy or flagrant homosexual acts. Nor, for that matter, does it allow flagrant adultery or flagrant sexual relations between officers and people working under them.
Let’s make a distinction between homosexuals and gay advocates, who publicly profess their sexuality and insist that everyone should approve of sodomy, on pain of being punished by the law.
Where does Romney stand? I think the record shows that he has appointed public homosexual advocates to important positions, and does not oppose the gay political agenda.
I personally in the past have hired homosexuals and lesbians, because they were most qualified for the job, but I preferred that they should keep their gender preferences to themselves and their private lives. Unfortunately, that is getting more and more difficult these days.
Military people are supposed to keep their ideologies to themselves. Ironically, General Pace was bashed by the liberals because that is his policy for homosexuals in the military. And it is his policy because it has been national policy, ever since CLINTON put the “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule through congress.
I don’t think it will be possible to make clean distinctions between “gay advocates” and non-evangelizing homosexuals if we don’t formulate a clear, and public, moral consensus. The historic, western position has been that homosexuality represents a reprehensible and deeply shameful behavior. If we remove our politically correct lenses, we have to admit that it also represents a health hazard, unless people really believe they can exchange fecal matter (anal sodomy) without getting sick. The historic taboos were there for a reason and the natural revulsion normal people feel for the lifestyle should not be undone by “statesmen” who can’t bring themselves to call sin sin.