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Gays in military would undermine defense
Sun Sentinel ^ | December 13, 2010 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 12/13/2010 2:06:02 PM PST by Red Steel

People who take polls for a living will tell you that, depending on the methodology, the sample, how a question is asked and the understanding of the ones being polled, the outcome can pretty much be predetermined.

If you are dependent on a superior for your job and that superior tells you he wants a certain conclusion reached about a policy he wishes to implement, that, too, can affect the outcome.

Such is the case with President Barack Obama, who has told gay rights groups he intends to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy and allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military. From the comments by Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, it appears the president's message has placed their job security above what is best for the military and the country. Many lower-ranking officers do not share their opinion about the effects openly gay service members would have on our military.

The Pentagon poll touted by Gates and Mullen was "rigged," said a recent editorial in The Washington Times, which noted, "From the outset, the Pentagon had no interest in eliciting honest responses from the troops about whether the law … should be preserved or repealed. Instead, soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines were addressed in terms of implying that repeal is inevitable."

Furthermore, said the newspaper, "63 percent of respondents live off-base or in civilian housing and consequently answered that a change in policy might not affect them. Those in combat roles — where unit cohesion and trust are life-and-death concerns — gave a different response."

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The military is one of our primary national underpinnings. So is marriage. No wonder the gay rights movement seeks to undermine both.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: dadt; dontaskdonttell; gays; homosexualagenda; homsexualagenda
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1 posted on 12/13/2010 2:06:05 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
Gays in the Military would Undermine Defense

I think that's the idea, Einstein. (not you, Red).

2 posted on 12/13/2010 2:07:44 PM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Red Steel

Undermine defense? Well DUH!!! That’s the POINT, Cal!!!!


3 posted on 12/13/2010 2:14:48 PM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: Red Steel

So it’s not enough that they come out of de closet they have to get outside de fence too?


4 posted on 12/13/2010 2:20:35 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: Red Steel

Fast forward... one year from now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYW3He_1JdU&feature=related


5 posted on 12/13/2010 2:30:54 PM PST by Gator113 (Sarah Palin can win, and she will win.)
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To: Red Steel

They might undermine defense but just think what they could do with the uniforms......


6 posted on 12/13/2010 2:31:11 PM PST by ninonitti
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To: Red Steel; Steely Tom; Tiger_eye

The Washington Times said they would publish the below letter.

Politicians supporting repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) rely for justification on a single number contrived by the Department of Defense (DOD). This military survey, which proclaimed 70% see positive or no effect for repealing DADT, replaces national defense with social alchemy as the armed forces’ primary mission.

DOD followed traditional practices for fabricating results. The poll was conducted after Congressional Representatives had voted for repeal of DADT. Therefore, only 29% responded by completing half or more of the questions, under the compelling logic that nobody really cared. DOD contacted equal numbers of reserve and active troops and spouses, and only 20% to 30% of those whose military specialty could place them in harm’s way. Also, nearly one third had never deployed. Supposedly all these responses provided valid information, even though people in base housing, civilian neighborhoods, and CONUS bureaucracies never experience firefights and IED’s.

The entire military exists to serve Marine and Army combat infantrymen. DOD accomplishes nothing of lasting significance until infantrymen walk the ground formerly held by an enemy, and well over half of those trigger-pullers oppose repeal. Only they understand the unimaginable totalitarian leadership and obedience demanded by their chaotic and brittle environments.


7 posted on 12/13/2010 2:33:24 PM PST by Retain Mike
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To: Steely Tom
Always been Queers in the military; most I knew about kept it hidden and did their job. I bet there are a couple in every company and nobody knows it. The ones I found out about when I was in the army didn't cause any problems, Don't ask, don't tell is basically how it has always been.

Here's a funny one for you all. When I was at Ft BRagg, we had this blk sp 5 that was gay. All the blks knew it but most the whites didn't. The blks were embarrassed but didn't out this guy. Most everybody lived off post, but this sp 5 had a room in the barracks. So us white guys thought this guy was ok, pretty classy, not racist, good guy. None of the blks would associate with him. So anyway, this gay sp 5 got caught down Hay St dressed up like a woman, working as a prostitute. Got to be the most embarrassing thing could happen to anybody , ha ha. Anyway, then all the whites guys steered way clear of the sp 5. I started calling all the blk guys in my company by his name, stir it up some; they got hot quick about that sorts thing h a ha.

But still, you ain't going to keep them all out. As long as they do their job and don't go out flag waving their disease; I say let them alone; feel sorry for them rather than hate them.

8 posted on 12/13/2010 2:33:27 PM PST by Eska
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To: Red Steel

Don’t Look At or Touch My Junk Soldier!


9 posted on 12/13/2010 2:40:23 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Eska
Always been Queers in the military; most I knew about kept it hidden and did their job. I bet there are a couple in every company and nobody knows it. The ones I found out about when I was in the army didn't cause any problems, Don't ask, don't tell is basically how it has always been.

I work out in a gym that has a lot of gay members. No, I'm not gay but straight and married for 20 years -it's close to work.

If people only knew how many active and reserve military folk visit that gym who are gay....like you said don't ask and don't tell.

10 posted on 12/13/2010 2:44:30 PM PST by hoyt-clagwell (5:00 AM Gym Crew Jerking Iron.....)
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To: Red Steel

Anyone that has ever been in the military understands totally why homos are not allowed in the services.

Butt buffers just want to prevert everything good and decent, thats all.


11 posted on 12/13/2010 2:45:00 PM PST by fuzzybutt (Democrat Lawyers are the root of all evil.)
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To: Red Steel

What would you expect from a marxist-in-chief out to destroy the United States. They don’t quite have the military under their thumb yet, thanks to the Christian paradigm.

Create a homosexual military like the SS Nazi Brownshirts and the ancient Greek and Roman pederasts and you kill Christianity and make the Bible hate speech.

You also get to kick all those who dare to think the Christian paradigm is superior to all other ideologies (which it is—that is why Marxists hate it).
That way when homosexuals harass the heterosexuals the Christians will be kicked out for being a “homophobe” and VOILA!!!! You have a military of immoral troops who are capable of killing their own citizens because they are devoid of Judeo/Christian morality—what bambi wants to do.

Homosexuality always includes pederasty and Judeo/Christian beliefs are the only culture that condemned that paradigm in the ancient and modern world. All Marxists want no sexual morality so you destroy the family loyalties and can control children. Christian morality is what made this country work and the best in the history of the world—most freedom for the most diverse.

You can not make unnatural immoral behavior legal in the military. You destroy the character and honor that HAS to exist in such a powerful entity unless you want evil like the homosexual brownshirts did to Germans.


12 posted on 12/13/2010 2:49:39 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: Red Steel

You mean like thishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5Dfs7jqFI&feature=related


13 posted on 12/13/2010 2:52:26 PM PST by eastforker (Visit me at http://www.eastforker.com)
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To: Red Steel

Who is going to want to serve? Always looking behind to see who is trying to pick you up, while trying to do your job? It sure will keep a lot of good people from wanting serve.


14 posted on 12/13/2010 3:09:20 PM PST by FreedBird
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To: Eska

Your post is a good illustration why DADT should NOT be repealed.


15 posted on 12/13/2010 3:31:13 PM PST by ohioman
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To: Red Steel
here's the deal, two fags are having sex in the same unit, and one day the unit gets hit.

will one or both of them sacrifice YOU and or the whole unit to save their queer sex partner???

it's as simple as that

16 posted on 12/13/2010 3:31:53 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: FreedBird
It sure will keep a lot of good people from wanting serve.

And you're going to find a lot of present military resigning their commissions and warrants and enlisted folks deciding to not re-up.

Those of the queer persuasion may find themselves in a neat situation, i.e., satisfying their odd sexual desires and getting paid for it.

17 posted on 12/13/2010 3:38:52 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: Chode

Is it not ironic that that the same was said about female soldiers serving with men? lol


18 posted on 12/13/2010 3:39:17 PM PST by verity
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To: FreedBird

What happens in a few years when the gays have been promoted into all levels of command and your superior officers take a shine to you? Who you gonna choose?


19 posted on 12/13/2010 3:50:44 PM PST by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God 's redemption.)
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To: verity
to tell you the truth, i wouldn't trust ANYBODY banging ANYBODY in the same unit to cover my back.
20 posted on 12/13/2010 3:53:46 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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