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by Marine General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking member of the military, may have just secured his resignation. In discussing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, a compromise of the Clinton era, General Pace offered his personal opinion that "homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts."
Pace went on: "I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is okay to be immoral in any way." Gay activists, leading Democrats and Republican Senator John Warner have all spoken out against Pace's remarks. The general has issued a statement saying he should not have devoted so much time to his personal views.
Is this General Pace's Trent Lott moment? Will the political figures who appointed him defend him, or will a career of service end in political scandal?
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Bravo for General Peter Pace !! Finally some more normal people speak up. We do have medical evaluations in the military and why should people be accepted who have medical problems to start with , like faulty genetics or emotional breakdowns and instabilities.
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General Pace’s blanket statement, "homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts." makes me ask the question as to whether he considers heterosexual acts between unmarried people to be also immoral, or any other conceivable “immoral” act by a soldier. Does this mean that they also should be excluded from the military for being immoral? If it’s a matter of getting caught first, then does simply “being gay” make you already immoral before any “act” is even committed?
Questions like these are why he’s in trouble.
I completely agree with those who say that it just simply will not work to have openly homosexual men or women mixed with heterosexuals in the same living and training arrangements.
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Free speech is a given...and the consequences of such speech are also given. One cannot speak ex cathedra without the interpretation of such being from the mouth of God.
Free speech is a given...and the consequences of such speech are also given. One cannot speak ex cathedra without the interpretation of such being from the mouth of God.
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I know one of the issues regarding soldier morale and homosexual soldiers is the "comfort" factor. The men do not want to be oggled or perceive oggling by their homosexual counterparts in showers or bay barracks, etc.
I wonder what the effect would be if the military simply decreed UNISEX conditions. It would probably go awfully at first until some decorum were established. But would the system breakdown completely [over time] if men and women showered, dressed and slept together? If so - there is the easiest, demonstrable failure of open homosexuality in the ranks.