By Douglas V. Gibbs
I believe that a homosexual can fight in a combat situation as well as any other military member. I believe there is no difference between a gay person and a heterosexual person in any situation, for the most part. So why, then, would I be against the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell?" For the same reason as the military personnel surveyed that indicated that the repeal would have a negative impact on the military.
Homosexuality has been the beneficiary of a brilliant marketing campaign. A person could make perfectly reasonable comments about their disapproval of the gay agenda, but doing so makes that person a target. The media, the Democrats, and the gay activists pounce on any statement about homosexuality that is anything less than complimentary. Because of the potential of attacks, and the severity of the immorality of the issue, few people, including politicians and public figures, are not comfortable talking about homosexuality, much less challenging the agenda head on.
Most people do not think about homosexuality all that much. People don't spend time worried about the topic, nor are really concerned with necessarily creating strategies challenging the opposition. In fact, for those that oppose the gay agenda, I believe that the majority of those folks don't even think about the issue until the supporters of homosexuality shoves it in people's face through the assistance of the Democrat Party and the main-extreme media. The media, the political establishment, and the proponents of the gay agenda, think about the gay agenda constantly. The supporters of the homosexual agenda will tell you that the issue is the next important equal-rights front.
The gay agenda says it is all about the freedom of gays to be who they are, even if it means to infringe on the world that isn't who they are, nor believes that homosexuality is a normal and acceptable behavior.
Opponents of the gay agenda tend to be people who place the family unit as one of the most important building blocks of our society, and an integral piece in the protection of liberty. These people teach their children the importance of family, of the importance of moral convictions, and the importance of marriage in the otherwise difficult world of insane dynamics of the relationship between the sexes. Homosexuality, however, in their quest for "equality" wish to impose their belief system on the heterosexual world, while simultaneously claiming they believe Christians have no right to parade their moral positions on homosexuality.
The drive to make homosexuality a societally accepted behavior includes using the public schools as a tool in teaching children, despite parental objections, the homosexual creed. The kids, under the tutelage of the gay agenda, are being taught anti-values that are in direct opposition to the moralities their parents have taught them - and the indoctrination is often being done in a stealth manner, and many parents don't even realize what is happening. That is the ugly, and absolutely revolting side, of the "gay rights" movement.
Do all gays believe that militant tactics are what is best for their agenda? Probably not. But there are enough of them out there that encourage schools to take kids to "gay pride parades," or demand that our society be taught "how normal" homosexuality is, that is has become more than just an issue about gays. We are now beginning to see spectacles that should never be allowed in public, should never be aired on television, and are often in complete violation of obscenity laws.
In the gay agenda's trek towards convincing the American Public that theirs is a movement that deserves special privileges because of their sexual proclivities, despite the fact that an overwhelming number of Americans reject same-sex marriage, the agenda has turned to the military. The homosexuals, like the purveyors of political correctness, has turned to the military to be their lab for social experimentation. And anyone who dares have a problem with it is being portrayed as fringe, extreme religious zealots.
And as the assault on the family reaches new heights through their attack on the U.S. Military, a growing number of Americans have done all they can to just avoid the uncomfortable issue, partly because they don't know how to frame the debate properly, and partly because they are afraid of being labeled with the disgusting labels used by the purveyors of the homosexual agenda.
Many Americans, to just avoid the whole confrontation thing, just follow along with what they think is the majority. When it comes to the military, the gay supporters have reasoned, if they can just convince everybody that the majority of the military finds the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell to be just no big deal, the opposition will slink away, and their continued work on forcing a change on society will be that much easier.
Problem is, the military finds homosexuals in their ranks as being problematic when the individuals that classify themselves as gay openly reveal their sexual behavioral anomaly. The problems that arise are not necessarily because of what is on the surface, or that military members cannot control their "bigoted" aversion to homosexuality, as the supporters of the gay agenda may suggest. The difficulties associated with openly homosexual military members dwell within the dynamics of the relationships, and military aspects of training and unit cohesion, of the fighting unit. Fascinatingly, people who have little or no military experience, or a complete lack of a combat background, are the ones acting as the loudest voices concerning what is best for the United States Armed Forces.
Enter, stage left, an exhaustive study that touts itself as being a comprehensive review of the issues associated with the potential repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy. The media says the report proves that military members believe repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell is no big deal. . . even though combat troops and certain members of the brass disagree - and that the study, despite the media's version of the report, says nothing of the sort.
In reporting the findings of the study, the media lumped together the responses to the questions that found open homosexuality in the military to be a positive action, would have neither a positive or negative impact, or would have no effect. Those numbers were then compared to those that believed openly gay service members would have a negative impact on the military, and of course the numbers for the three lumped responses always came out as the larger number. However, in pretty much every question the responses that believed openly gay service members would have a negative impact was larger than those that believed it would have a positive impact. Why wasn't that reported? Additionally, the responses from those with combat experience were especially pushed down, and set aside.
In the military organizational system most of the personnel attached are for support. The percentage of personnel utilized for actual combat is actually very low. However, it is in the combat aspect of military operations that the real nitty-gritty of the military takes place. Fact is, the primary operational mission of the U.S. Military is to kill the enemy. Therefore, though the support personnel are an integral part of the fulfillment of that mission, it is the combat personnel that the entire system revolves around. Yet, only the opinion of a small part of combat personnel was ascertained in this study, and then when it became known that combat personnel are overwhelmingly against the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, their opinion was played down.
But the most important part of the U.S. Military is combat, and how factors such as openly gay personnel affects the dynamics of the combat scenario. Therefore, the position of the combat personnel in this issue should be the most important factor in determining if the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is beneficial to the U.S. Military.
In short, my opposition to the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is not completely about my abhorrence of the sin that is homosexuality, and has quite a lot to do with the military readiness and capabilities of our combat operations. The dynamics of relationships outside the brotherhood of the members of a unit, and the distraction of a social issue that has no place in the foxhole, is one of the primary focuses of my opposition to the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell.
Unit cohesion, a lack of any hesitancy, trust, brotherhood, and a lack of any psychological distractions are all gravely important to a combat scenario. When an enemy has their firearm trained on your forehead, the unwavering trust in the men around you on all levels is imperative. This is why, until in some cases recently, women have largely not been a part of combat units. It's not necessarily because women may not be fully capable, although in some cases that may be true, but because of the dynamics it creates. Sexual tension is a dangerous thing on the battlefield. The last thing a combat troop needs is a distraction that draws in emotion. Combat personnel cannot have any emotion when it comes to sex, or the identity of the enemy, while in a combat scenario. The cold, hard truth is that their job is to kill. If they cannot fulfill that requirement, or if there are distractions in the field that may diminish that ability, that service member does not belong in the field. Openly gay service members create a dynamic that places all of those personnel at risk - not because the gay member cannot properly serve, but because if the person is serving in an actively gay manner, it creates dynamics that could place the entire unit at risk.
My relationships with people I have worked with in my own military past (FMF Corpsmen, Marines and SEALs, mostly) has also enabled me to conduct my own personal survey. Though my own research is nothing close to being official, and only samples a very small segment of the combat personnel population (as well as the non-combat personnel), the results are quite telling. Every single one of the members of the combat community told me that they believe openly gay personnel would have an adverse effect on the battlefield. Support personnel were not so definite, though the majority still believed there would be a negative impact. Administrative personnel with no combat experience was even more lenient. In other words, the farther away you got from the battlefield, the more permitting the personnel are towards whether or not Don't Ask Don't Tell should be repealed. The study in question, the one the media is touting says that the military personnel find the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell as no big deal, surveyed mostly non-combatant personnel.
That's like surveying ticket clerks at the airport about issues related to the cockpit of the aircraft.
The opinion most important here is the opinion of the combat personnel. They are the ones in the trenches, and they are the ones performing the task of killing the enemy. It is their happiness that we must be catering to, and they say that repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell would have a negative impact on the mission of the U.S. Military.
As for me, though all of the arguments I have used are important to my position, like most Americans, I also realize that simply put, homosexual behavior is wrong. The Bible condemns it for a reason. Unlike other sins, homosexuality seeks to justify itself, and perpetuate itself into a greater, more widely accepted, sin.
Could you imagine liars, or thieves, trying to convince the populace that theirs is a behavior they can't control and must be accepted by the general population as normal?
If we allow the homosexual agenda to accomplish what it has set out to do, we will be literally compromising truth, and we will no longer have a firm basis for knowing right from wrong. And honestly, our ability to distinguish between right and wrong is a large part of the reason the American society has prospered as well as it has throughout history. The ability to determine what is right and wrong is the basis for most of our laws. It is the basis for our entire value system.
Homosexuality wishes to indoctrinate our children into believing that homosexuality is just as right as heterosexuality. They wish to convince our children that they cannot resist the temptations of homosexuality. They wish to train our children that God doesn't care how people behave sexually. In fact, it is their desire to convince society that God wants us to do whatever feels right, morality be damned.
Therefore, the battle the gay agenda brings to the table is not one of right versus left, or liberalism versus conservatism, or even Democrat versus Republican. The war the gay agenda wages has now become one between right versus wrong.
The military is one of the places the marketing campaign of homosexuality has decided to attack. If we lose that battle, the war over right versus wrong will become even more difficult. We must stand on our principles, values, and what is right. We must stand with the pro-family organizations, and our churches must be active in this debate. This is not an issue to be quiet about. To do so will send the signal that we have abandoned our values, and that we are in retreat.
Our future demands that we stand firm, and protect the values that have made this nation great. To do any less places this nation in grave danger.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Full Final Version of Don't Ask Don't Tell Report - Washington Post
'Don't ask, don't tell' report: Little risk to enlisting gays - Washington Post
U.S. Combat Troops Resist 'Don't Ask' Repeal - Fox News
Army, Marine Chiefs Cast Doubt on Gay Service - CBN News
McCain: 264,600 may quit military; 3 top commanders warn Senate: Don't accept open homosexuality, reject 'reprogramming' - World Net Daily
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