The Family Research Council today made the ludicrous claim that repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will prevent ex-gay activists from converting gay soldiers to heterosexuality.
This legislation would more than open the Armed Forces to homosexuals; it would lead to a zero-tolerance policy toward anyone who disapproves of homosexuality. Will the chaplains’ sermons be censored? Would they have the freedom to counsel soldiers with same-sex attractions? Or would they be disqualified from the service altogether? For more on what this would mean to military quotas, don’t miss Ken Blackwell’s op-ed, “President Obama and Military ‘Corpsemen’” in Townhall.
By framing its false accusations as questions, FRC pollutes the public discourse and sidesteps its obligation to substantiate its allegations. FRC also sidesteps the U.S. Constitution — a document that FRC views with cynical contempt — and its guarantees of freedom of religion.
But even this concern about framing gives FRC far too much credit.
The contention that the armed services are chock-full of well-armed, effeminate ex-gay chaplains like Randy Thomas, just waiting to convert terrified and bullied (but masculine) gay soldiers to ex-gay “heterosexuality,” might be one of the saddest funniest things I’ve ever read from FRC.
Might be. Except, that DADT and its predecessor policy permit violent, mentally disturbed, antigay and ex-gay soldiers to not only serve, but murder their gay comrades. The same policy also preserves a servicewide culture of rape and sexual assault by antigay men against female servicemembers.
FRC silently condones a string of killings and assaults committed under DADT — it has never condemned any of the killings, nor called for punishment of antigay violence and harassment in the services. So when you read the ridiculous, irrational, and patently stupid claims of FRC, please restrain the urge to laugh.
Because murder in defense of stupidity is not something to laugh at.
“Religious freedom” trumps dead gay people. Particularly when the Bible calls for gay people to be put to death.
Murder is a sin. Anyone who fails to speak out against it is providing de-facto support of it. Authentic Christians do not support murder. Only those promoting the counterfeit-religious belief of Christ = homophobia would be immoral enough to remain quiet while law-abiding, taxpaying Americans are murdered. Once again we can look to the Biblical warning that “bad fruit cannot come from a good tree” to see what kind of “fruit” is coming from large, pro-bullying, pro-hate crimes, anti-gay advocacy groups like FRC.
Ah, Buffy, but gay people are entitled to religious freedom, too — including freedom from the Bible and from abuse of the Bible.
Sick, sick, sick.
Being a Catholic (an almost ex one) and a military brat, I can’t believe how much misogyny and base level discrimination I witnessed. And was ‘okay’.
f*****g gross.
These type of beliefs are so vile.
Well put, Mike.
Here’s what strikes me about coverage and analysis of DADT supporters: The bulk of their arguments don’t support DADT at all, they support rolling it back in favor of the outright ban that preceded it.
Why not press the anti-gay folks to take their talking points to their logical conclusion, that the estimated 66,000 LGBT people currently serving should identify themselves and leave? That it should be a crime to accept deployment orders without confessing a same-sex encounter or recurring homoerotic thoughts?
They insist DADT repeal would be too complicated and disruptive. Let them explain how wholesale drumming of gays out of the military would not be disruptive, or how protocols for screening out LGBT folks during recruitment would not be complicated.