Don't Ask, Don't Tell
He's from New Jersey so here's what Garden State Equality had to say.
As you may have read in today's news, General Peter Pace, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has endorsed the U.S. military's policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Pace, who grew up in New Jersey, says: "homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral... and I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is okay to be immoral in any way."
Response from Garden State Equality:
First the general is hardly in a position to judge others. As a leader of the war in Iraq, General Pace has shown as much savvy in leading the military as Alfred E. Neuman would have in explaining the theory of relativity. Of course General Pace believes in "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." He's been key to the Administration's edict, "Don't ask about the war, and don't tell the American people how badly it's going."
Secondly, how ironic for man whose last name is Pace that the general hasn't kept up with the pace of progress. His views qualify him to run a war in the Gunsmoke era of 1955 rather than in a military theatre in 2007.
Thirdly, it's too bad that growing up in New Jersey didn't rub off on General Pace. Where New Jersey is the state that doesn't hate, General Pace somehow got stuck in a personal state of hate.
I started writing this yesterday and had some other links to add. Blogger wouldn't cooperate so I'm leaving it as is.
Before blogger goes nuts again, Heidi (aka VirusHead) has an excellent post up today. Long, but well worth reading. I'm showing it here even though it's unrelated except indirectly to gays in military and bigotry. I'm afraid if I don't do it now, I may not be able to connect with blogger again.
Later - much later.
I've been trying all day to post this. Finally recopied it to a new page and trying again.
It's now after 7:00 p.m. PDT and 27 hours have elapsed since I began this post.
Labels: fascism - fundies, gay rights, granny
4 Comments:
At Friday, March 16, 2007 9:01:00 AM , Anonymous said...
I was dissapointed, but not surprised, at Hillary Clinton's cowardly response to the situation.
Here's the link.
At Friday, March 16, 2007 9:30:00 AM , billie said...
go blogger! that must be some kind of record! :) i think that the only progress we have made in the gay rights agenda is that the bigots are just saying out loud what the rest of them think. i don't know what kind of person you have to be to continuously think about what 2 people do in bed- but apparently, their sex lives are nil. what the hell difference does it make if the arabic translator is gay or not? it isn't like he or she is trying to chat up the suspect. please. gay folks don't hit on straight ones. know how i know? i am friends with gay people. imagine that. they don't think about me and my husband having sex and i don't think about them having sex- and we treat each other as people. oh. right. there's the other problem.
At Friday, March 16, 2007 9:31:00 AM , billie said...
oh- and i am sensing another email to my state senator. not that she will get it- but i haven't donated a dime to her campaign and i don't plan on voting for her- for president or for senator next time.
At Friday, March 16, 2007 12:20:00 PM , Unknown said...
Thanks much for the mention! Sorry for the length of the post (grin).
Sorry you had such a hard time with Blogger. I'm pretty happy hosting my own blog and using WordPress.
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