Don't Ask,
Don't Think
By
Rev. Ted Pike
1 June 2010
 The
Senate Armed Services Committee and the House of Representatives
have voted to overturn “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”—forcing
open homosexuality in the military. Liberal lawmakers are pushing
the bill forward even though the Pentagon has not yet released its
own recommendations on the issue. Amendments in the House and Senate
both say the bill would not become law until after the Pentagon
study is issued; premature passage assumes the study will be favorable.
 In
a 2008 military poll, 58%
of active duty responders said they were against a repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Based on the poll,
National Review estimates that up to 10% of active duty forces would
choose to quit the military if forced to cohabit with open homosexuals.
The leading House Democrat on military policy himself unsuccessfully
opposed the repeal. He
said the law would create “disruption” while the
military is in the middle of two major conflicts—in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Merrill
McPeak, Air Force chief in 1993 when the ban was passed, wrote an
op-ed for the New York Times urging
that it remain in place. He explains that under “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell,” service members are no longer asked
whether they are homosexual; they no longer have to lie. They simply
have to remain quiet about it. “Seventeen years ago, the chiefs
— all four of us, plus the chairman and vice chairman —
concluded that allowing open homosexuality in the ranks would probably
damage the cohesiveness of our combat units.”
Repeal
advocates focus on the rights and job performance of individual
homosexuals, says McPeak, but the military isn’t about the
individual. It is about group cohesion when facing deadly threats.
The military has a right to exclude open homosexuals whose lifestyles
weaken the warrior culture required for open combat.
McPeak
also points out that the military has a special right to discriminate
against candidates. Overweight candidates are routinely ejected
from military training, and no one complains about the cost or damaged
morale. “The services exclude, without challenge, many categories
of prospective entrants. People cannot serve in uniform if they
are too old or too young, too fat or too thin, too tall or too short,
disabled, not sufficiently educated and so on. This, too, might
be illegal in the civil sector. So why should exclusion of gay people
rise to the status of a civil-rights issue, when denying entry to,
say, unmarried individuals with sole custody of dependents under
18, does not?” If weight, height and education are substantive
issue, then highly controversial and morally objectionable sexual
behavior is even more so.
Although
it is increasingly not recognized as anything but fringe “homophobia,”
many religious service members believe homosexuality is a very serious
sin against God and man. Family Research Council says, “The
courts have consistently upheld the military's 1993 homosexual ban
and affirmed convincingly that the law is constitutional. Congress
and the courts have long acknowledged that the military has the
responsibility to focus on creating and preserving readiness. Military
service is a privilege, not a right, and anything that detracts
from the ability of our service personnel to fulfill their mission
should be prohibited. The sexual tension that would be introduced
by forced cohabition with homosexuals indisputably fits into that
category.”
Please
call your senators and ask them to vote against a repeal
of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell." The Senate will
probably vote this week! Call toll-free 877-851-6437.
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America First Books Editor's
Note
For
those new to the hate bill controversy that is the topic of most
of Rev. Pike's work, please link to the following articles:
 Alert
to Congress Regarding Hate Bills and the False Flag Attack Threat
by America First Books publisher William B. Fox. Two-thirds
down the web page please find the essay "The
Hate Crime Law Concept: It is all very sinister for at least nine
major reasons."
Also,
earlier on this same page I comment:
Although
Rev Ted Pike is completely independent from Captain May and myself
in terms of his political and religious views, the threats we
address all stem from the same corrupt power elite. I mention
in my concluding remarks below that this elite “would mobilize
us into domestic tyranny and foreign wars, while distracting us
from economic depression and the groups that brought it about.”
This
is the real problem, not the lack of more “hate crime”
laws. If anything, we need even more freedom of speech to speak
truth to power, sort out our problems, and develop peaceful strategies
to handle high level malefactors. This is why we urgently need
for members of Congress to not only take a principled stand and
stop all hate crime legislative initiatives, but to also roll
back all the existing hate crime laws currently on the books.
Hate
crime laws actually pose a major national security threat. They
condition Americans to feel that certain types of thought are inherently
immoral or illegal, even if they do not result in any form of violence
or infringement on the rights of others.
In
our articles related to false flag attacks, Capt.
Eric H. May and I have discussed strong evidence that Mossad-CIA
was behind 9-11, the mere "thought" of which would some
day be outlawed once hate crime oversight bureaucracies become firmly
implanted in America. We can expect government hate crime overwatch
entities to experience the usual cancerous growth and abuse of power
that libertarian writer and Presidential candidate Harry Browne
described in his classic book Why
Government Doesn't Work.
Please
find out more about the hate crime issue in the Rev
Ted Pike archive.
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alternative religious and secular viewpoints on freedom of speech
issues at America First Books:
a) The
Rev Ted Pike archive
b) The
Religious Crisis page
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Christian and Christian Zionist viewpoints, but also secular, anarcho-libertarian,
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nationalist, and "miscellaneous other" perspectives.
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