Head of the certified anti-gay hate group Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, said today, “I urge Congress to put the brakes on ‘repeal implementation’ to investigate this scandal, and to reverse the ill-advised decision of last year’s repudiated Democratic lame duck Congress.”
“America’s military has barred homosexual conduct in the ranks ever since George Washington’s Continental Army. President Obama, Secretary Panetta and Admiral Mullen have no basis – other than liberal political correctness – for ‘certifying’ that a reversal of this longstanding policy would do no harm.
“Even the Pentagon’s biased report on the subject last year illustrated the dangers of using the military for social engineering. Retention would be harmed – 24 percent of service members said repeal would have a negative impact on their ‘intentions to remain in the military,’ a number six times higher than those who said it would have a positive effect. Recruiting would be harmed – repeal was four times more likely to have a negative than a positive effect on ‘your willingness to recommend’ a military career. Unit cohesion would be harmed – 62 percent foresaw at least some negative effects, and the report conceded that in open forums, ‘the majority of views were against repeal.’
“The entire process by which the Obama administration has orchestrated repeal of this law was dishonest from the start. The recent revelation of a Defense Department Inspector General’s report on unauthorized leaks to the media showed that the conclusions of the Pentagon’s report on repeal had already been written before the troops were even asked their views.
“I urge Congress to put the brakes on ‘repeal implementation’ to investigate this scandal, and to reverse the ill-advised decision of last year’s repudiated Democratic lame duck Congress.”
What will Perkins do when the mass of soldiers he claims will leave the military, don’t? What will Perkins do when there are little to zero negative effects on the military after the ban is officially lifted? What will Perkins do when he finds out, after Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is long history, after, DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, is long history, after ENDA is enacted, and after a same-sex couple and their family move into his neighborhood, and the Rapture hasn’t come, nor Armageddon, nor any other supposed evidence of God’s wrath against America, what will Tony Perkins do to find out his entire reason for living, his entire view of the world, is wrong?
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