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Gates Solicits Military Input on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal as House Passes Defense Bill

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Friday, May 28, 2010 at 4:35 pm

As the House passed the 2011 defense authorization bill this afternoon containing a repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Defense Secretary Gates issued a video statement to the military encouraging servicemembers to tell his Working Group how to “minimize any disruption” to the force when repeal happens.

A reluctant supporter of the legislative repeal — Gates had wanted Congress to pass a repeal only after the Working Group completed its survey in December — Gates observed that the full bill itself may not pass until “the end of the year,” and “nothing will change in terms of our current policies and practices” on the ban on open gay military service until, as the legislation states, Gates, President Obama and Adm. Mike Mullen all endorse the Working Group’s findings.

“Every man and woman in uniform is a vitally important part of this review,” Gates said in the video. “We need to hear from you and your families so we can make these judgments in the most informed and effective manner.” Watch:

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Comment posted May 29, 2010 @ 10:51 am

“Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character–character that does and dares as well as endures, character that is active in the performance of virtue no less than firm in the refusal to do aught that is vicious or degraded.” 

                                                                                                                             The Outlook, March 31, 1900
                                                                                                                                             Theodore Roosevelt

A popular political argument for permitting homosexuals to serve openly in the Marine Corps is that otherwise qualified Marines are being lost to the Corps solely due to their sexuality. That argument is unabashedly simplistic in failing to include the impact of homosexual Marines serving openly on Marines of conscience. In the first instance, the very nature of being Marines of conscience will prompt many of them to extricate themselves from such associations. A notable example of that imperative is the following Marine: On 2 February 1983, Captain Charles B. “Chuck” Johnson, USMC, of Neenah, Wisconsin jumped on an Israeli tank that tried to run through a Marine roadblock in Lebanon. He threatened to shoot the tank commander if he continued: The tank withdrew. Later, that Marine officer of conscience resigned his commission rather than compromise his moral convictions and serve with practitioners of homosexual acts tacitly protected by, “Don't ask. Don't tell.” That action was a manifestation of the Biblical imperative voiced in The Epistle of James 2:14-26 that convictions are worthless unless practiced. If the United States Congress reverses itself and permits homosexuals Marines to serve openly, they will force from service and replace still more Marines who value and practice their conscience.

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[...] Gates Solicits Military Input on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal as House Passes Defense Bill “As the House passed the 2011 defense authorization bill this afternoon containing a repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Defense Secretary Gates issued a video statement to the military encouraging servicemembers to tell his Working Group how to “minimize any disruption” to the force when repeal happens.” [...]

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Comment posted June 4, 2010 @ 8:19 am

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