STOP our Military "Leaders" from destroying the morale and morality of Fighting Soldiers!

Romans 1:26-27 (New International Version)


26  Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 

27  In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.


2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International Version)

14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.


Tuesday, February 02, 2010 


Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, right, accompanied by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing onthe "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. 

WASHINGTON -- The military's top uniformed officer on Tuesday made an impassioned plea for allowing gays to serve openly in uniform, telling a Senate panel it was a matter of integrity and that it is wrong to force people to "lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens." 

The comments by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, set the stage for the Defense Department's yearlong study into how the ban can be repealed without causing a major upheaval in the military. 

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, appearing with Mullen before the Armed Services Committee, announced plans to loosen enforcement rules involving the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that has been in effect since 1993. 

President Barack Obama has called for a repeal of the policy, although he did little in his first year in office to advance that goal. If he succeeds, it would mark the biggest shake up to military personnel policies since President Harry S. Truman's 1948 executive order integrating the services. 

"No matter how I look at the issue," Mullen said, "I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens." Noting that he was speaking for himself and not for the other service chiefs, Mullen added: "For me, it comes down to integrity -- theirs as individuals and ours as an institution." 

Congress enacted the law that enshrined the "don't ask" policy, which was intended to soften the previous blanket prohibition on gays in the military. "Don't ask" says gays may serve so long as they kept their sexuality private. Gay rights organizations have called that an insult and have said it is a form of discrimination. 

Repeal of the ban would require a new law passed by Congress. Gates and Mullen said their efforts are intended to make sure the Pentagon is ready when that time comes. 

The hastily called session gave Obama high-level cover on a divisive social issue complicated by the strains on an all-volunteer military force of fighting two wars. 

Gates, who says he is a Republican, is the only member of former President George W. Bush's Cabinet whom Obama asked to stay on. He has gained a reputation for candor and caution. Mullen's words were a forceful endorsement from a careful man, but his very appearance, starched uniform and four stars on view, spoke as loudly. 

Gates drew unusually pointed and partisan criticism from Republicans on the panel for saying that the review will examine how, not whether, to repeal the ban. 

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the committee, icily told Gates he was disappointed in his position. In sharp questioning, McCain angrily suggested that the Pentagon was usurping Congress' job in rewriting the law should it choose to do so. 

"Has this policy been ideal? No, it has not," McCain said. "But it has been effective." 

Mullen looked pained when Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., suggested that Mullen had preordained the outcome of any study of the wisdom of repeal by signaling his own opposition to the ban. 

"This is about leadership, and I take that very, very seriously," Mullen replied, tightlipped. 

Several other Republicans sided with McCain, warning Mullen and Gates not to pursue a change at a time when the United States is fighting two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and facing a continuing threat of terrorism. Democrats said they would back a change in policy. 

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and chairman of the committee, said a repeal of the law might be slipped into a broader military policy bill that authorizes defense spending. 

Democratic Sen. Mark Udall said his Colorado constituents pride themselves on allowing others to live and let live. 

"You don't have to be straight to shoot straight," said Udall, quoting libertarian Barry Goldwater. 

Gates suggested that lawmakers keep the intensity of debate in check until the military can get a better handle on how to proceed. To sort out the details, Gates has turned to Pentagon counsel Jeh Johnson and Gen. Carter Ham, who leads Army forces in Europe. 

"Keep the impact it will have on our forces firmly in mind," the secretary implored lawmakers. 

Mullen said it was his sense that rank-and-file troops would support the change. 

"I have served with homosexuals since 1968," he said in response to questions from Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. "There are a number of things cumulatively that get me to this position." 

Ham is a former enlisted infantryman who rose through the ranks to eventually command troops in northern Iraq in 2004 and hold senior positions within the Joint Staff. Recently, he helped conduct an investigation into the shootings by a soldier at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas. 

As the Pentagon's top legal counsel, Johnson has played an integral role into the effort to try to close the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
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A lot has changed since the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy was instituted 17 years ago. Some indicators of societal shifts: 

--President Barack Obama's signing last year of hate crimes legislation marked the first time that gays and lesbians were given comprehensive legal status as a protected class. 

--Iowa, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont and the District of Columbia have adopted laws permitting marriage of gay couples. Another four states -- Washington, Nevada, Colorado and Wisconsin -- have granted similar rights to gay domestic partners. 

--The federal government and many states have passed laws against hate crimes based on sexual orientation or gender identity. 

--The public's attitude toward gays and lesbians has undergone a significant shift. The gay-rights group Human Rights Campaign says polls show about three-quarters of Americans say it's OK for gays to serve openly in the military, compared with 44 percent in 1993. 

--Internationally, the list of countries that allow openly gay people to serve in their militaries has grown to 28, including Canada, Israel, Australia and most of Europe. 

--The U.S. Census has for the first time begun tabulating information about gay couples who live together. 

--Supporters of gay rights have formed a House caucus, which has 83 members. There are three openly gay members of Congress: Reps. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Jared Pois of Colorado, all Democrats. 

--Overall, there were about 50 openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered elected officials in the United States in 1993, according to the Victory Fund, which recruits and promotes gay candidates. Today, there are 460. The nation's fourth-largest city, Houston, Texas, installed openly gay Annise Parker as mayor last month. 

(Copyright ©2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Is It Fair?

By Rush Limbaugh:







I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound.


No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can't let the numbers pass by


because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of


this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you're


going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of


$250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million..


If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action,


the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable.














Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get


$833 a month until you remarry. And there's a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a


screeching halt.














Keep in mind that some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 million up to $4.7 million are complaining


that it's not enough. Their deaths were tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.


Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their families know the dangers.. (Actually, soldiers are put in harms way by politicians and commanding


officers.)














We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have


started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11 families


are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the


embassies are now asking for compensation as well.














You see where this is going, don't you? Folks, this is part and parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It's just really sad. Every time a pay raise comes up for the military, they usually receive next to


nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low-rent housing. Make sense?














However, our own US Congress voted themselves a raise. Many of you don't know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month. And most are now equal to being millionaires plus. They do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn't have to pay into the system. If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out as an


E-7, they may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who


placed them in harm's way receives a pension of $15,000 per month.






I would like to see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting.














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