Tony Perkins, president of the Patriarchy Research Council (wait — they don't do any kind or research, so maybe Patriarchy Propaganda Council would be better) is very upset that the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the US military might be repealed. This would cause terrible suffering for military chaplains, compromising their liberty to be bigots.
This means that all 1.4 million members of the U.S. military will be subject to sensitivity training intended to indoctrinate them into the myths of the homosexual movement: that people are born "gay" and cannot change and that homosexual conduct does no harm to the individual or to society.
Anyone who points to the mountain of evidence to the contrary - or merely expresses the personal conviction that sex should be reserved for marriage between one man and one woman - runs the risk of receiving a negative performance evaluation for failing to support the military's "equal opportunity policy" regarding "sexual orientation."
Oh, I believe you can change how people behave sexually, and this policy change won't change that at all. Of course, forcing people to act sexually in ways which bring them no joy is also a great way to cause deep misery. I just look at all the tightly puckered smarmy jiveweasels inhabiting right wing Christian think-tanks, for instance, and see a horde of frustrated, tightly-wound self-flagellators — it's no wonder they so look forward to an afterlife in their death-cult, because this one is giving them nothing but priggishness.
For no other offense than believing what all the great monotheistic religions have believed for all of history, some service members will be denied promotion, will be forced out of the service altogether, or will simply choose not to reenlist. Other citizens will choose not to join the military in the first place. The numbers lost will dwarf the numbers gained by opening the ranks to practicing homosexuals.
Those "great" monotheistic religions also teach that women are inferior, that slavery is a respectable institution, that to kill and be killed for your god is a virtue, that homosexuals are to be stoned to death. Don't try to tell me that because a centuries-old book of tribalism and superstition says something is so, it deserves respect. It does not. It has earned contempt and dissent.
These same kinds of bigoted remarks were made when the executive order to integrate blacks and whites in the military was made, which wasn't actually that long ago…before 1948, military units were segregated.
Many white Americans (especially Southerners) responded with visceral revulsion to the idea of close physical contact with blacks. Many also perceived racial integration as a profound affront to their sense of social order. Blacks, for their part, often harbored deep mistrust of whites and great sensitivity to any language or actions that might be construed as racial discrimination
So his holy book and ignorant superstitions are not cause to continue a policy of discrimination, we have a history of similar arguments being made and being proven wrong…what about his claim that this change in policy will drive out good god-fearin' gay-hatin' soldiers and chaplains?
Screw them. Let 'em go. We're better off without those fundagelical frauds in the military anyway. And just think how much this will hurt their efforts to infiltrate and take over our military forces!
And in case you're feeling some pity for good ol' boys with a hatred for gays who'll be forced to change their professions and leave a military career because they feel so deeply that the faggots need to be caged, don't. Martyrdom is a very Christian ideal.
Of course, they only like the pseudo-martyrdom of being compelled to tolerate others. Voluntarily quitting a career isn't quite a sacrifice on the scale that Matthew Shepard made, or comparable to the kind of persecution they've been perpetrating on gay citizens for a long, long time.
Oh, here's a site that promotes discrimination against gays. Take a look at this lovely argument:
We Must Protect Our Military
Our military exists to fight and win wars, not engage in radical social engineering. Forcing soldiers to cohabit with people who view them as sexual objects would inevitably lead to increased sexual tension, sexual harassment, and even sexual assault.
Hey, that sounds familiar — isn't that the same claim Muslims use for swaddling women up to protect them from the uncontrollable lusts of men? I guess the US is in big trouble — our soldiers are so weak and undisciplined that they'll simply lapse into gay orgies if ordered to exercise tolerance.
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