Posted on 02/02/2010 11:27:42 AM PST by DesertRenegade
The military's top uniformed officer said Tuesday that gays should be allowed to serve openly in uniform, arguing that it is "the right thing to do."
Adm. Mike Mullen's statement was the strongest yet from the military on this volatile issue, although he stressed that he was "speaking for myself and myself only." He told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday he is deeply troubled by a policy that forces people to "lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens."
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs Staff said he knows many will disagree about abandoning the "don't ask, don't tell" policy and said there are practical obstacles to lifting the 1993 ban. But he said he thinks the military can handle it. Adm. Mullen is chief military adviser to President Barack Obama.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the panel he is tapping his chief legal adviser and a four-star Army general to lead a landmark study on how the military would lift its ban on openly gay service members. Pentagon counsel Jeh Johnson and Gen. Carter Ham, who leads Army forces in Europe, will conduct the yearlong assessment.
Sen. John McCain, the ranking committee Republican, publicly bristled at the Pentagon's decision to launch a yearlong study into allowing gays to serve, saying he is "deeply disappointed" and calling the assessment "clearly biased" because it presumes the law should be changed.
Mr. McCain, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, said the current policy isn't ideal, but that it has been effective.
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Mullen, hmm Navy. Mullen, hmm looking for reappointment. Mullen = political hack.
Even Bill Clinton saw this as going too far.
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As Pastor Manning points out (in one of his great videos), Obama will never authorize gays in the military because....
....the US military would be immediately booted from every MOSLEM country in the world.
Moslems won’t even be in the same room or on the same sidewalk with (openly gay) homosexuals. It’s a crime, punishable by death.
Pastor Manning’s conclusion? “Moslems have more control over gay Americans than gay Americans do.”
After he said that, a few hours later he was banned from YouTube. He also did a bunch of great ranting about how Obama’s a Moslem and serves Moslem masters.
The stars make them politicians, not military leaders, almost without exception.
Come on - do you think guys like Mullen rise to the top by disagreeing with what their superiors think? Are there any senior military officials who are going to be willing to “fall on their swords” to protest this? Does anyone out there still place combat readiness and troop morale over political correctness?
My grandson re-upped for five more years just a month ago.
He didn’t see this coming. He is vehemently opposed to swishers on submarines.
Most general officers are political hacks who will say whatever is needed to hold their position. The ones who are not usually stand in front of the cameras, voice their opinions along with tendering their resignation to take an honorable retirement.
The NATO allies forces have no rules against gays in the military and they serve in Afghanistan............
There are some but they usually don’t reach the top rank because they avoid the blatant political crap. They are always very few and come up during a war like a Sherman or a Grant. Mullen is more of a McClelland who will say whatever he thinks will get him ahead or secure his position.
Wrong. Italy, Greece and Turkey have outright bans. The Spanish and French discharge persons if homosexual conduct becomes a problem. It really varies by the country, and the real issue is how will this improve combat effectiveness and the answer to that is that it won’t.
The queers probably love it in Afghanistan.
A year after the policy is changed, we will see this happen on every military base:
After a torrid romance (begun at the base all-ranks club), LT Bob will marry LT Bill in the base chapel. (Or it will be PFCs Nancy and Susan.)
Then they will move into base housing, and begin adopting “their” children, or hiring wombs/sperm donors to do the trick.
If Bob and Bill want to slow dance and make out in the clubs, that is their business.
Anybody who has a problem with any of the above will just have to grit their teeth and say nothing. Otherwise, they will be given 1.0 (failing) marks on the EEOC portion of their fitness reports. Or they will even be charged with “hate crimes.” Any chaplain who refuses to “marry” them will be drummed out of the military as a “homophobic hate monger.”
A vast number of our best troops won’t stay in the new gay-orama military, and our combat readiness will collapse.
This is the future folks, if we don’t stop this.
It’s Cloward Piven strategy, applied to our military by PC mushheads and outright traitors.
Gays can and do serve in our military too. That's not the point.
Let the gays openly serve in the military but let them all serve. Bring back the draft and have all the “flaming” gays drafted then see how many are actually for gays in the service.
Gee, who saw this coming..?
This is exactly why Peter Pace got poopcanned and sodomite Mullen got promoted.
You’re right. Many guys will say the heck with it.
The Navy will be populated by lesbian women.
It’s all so wrong!
They could always boot openly gay military from places like Saudi Arabia just like how Jewish people are not allowed to serve in Saudi Arabia.
And the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia has openly queer military and they are in Iraq and Afghanistan how come those nations have not booted them in those nations?
I know Obama is a moslem, but most of the argument is silly.
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