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Let’s see…who is commander in chief? And again, the MSM calls on bigot and purveyor of discredited junk science lobbyist Tony Perkins.
A day after a judge in California ordered the Pentagon to cease enforcement of its policy barring gays from openly serving in the military, Gates told reporters that the question of whether to repeal the law should be decided by Congress, and done only after the Pentagon completes its study on the issue.“I feel strongly this is an action that needs to be taken by the Congress and that it is an action that requires careful preparation, and a lot of training,” said Gates. “It has enormous consequences for our troops.”
The defense secretary said that besides the changes in training, regulations will need revisions and changes may be necessary to benefits and Defense Department buildings.
…Family Research Council President Tony Perkins accused Phillips of “playing politics” with national defense.
“Once again, an activist federal judge is using the military to advance a liberal social agenda, disregarding the views of all four military service chiefs and the constitutional role of Congress,” he said.
Tony Perkins is not credible. The AP might as well have consulted the completely deranged and self-discredited Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness.
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The courts are the only ones protecting OUR RIGHTS, now.As of Judge Phillips injunction yesterday. DADT is dead, stopped, null and void. The OBAMA Administration can try to Reinstate it by calling for a stay or appeal. It is on their shoulders if they do, they will harm us, all our military and all US citizens if they do. No excuses about Legislative should do it. They had their chance as did the Executive… The Judicial saves us again!Please go find a letter to sign… One is here. http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/DontDefendDADTPlease, if you can, ANY servicemember who is persecuted/prosecuted from this day forward report to us so we can PROTEST!!
Not only is Perkins not credible… he heads an organization, the Family Research Council, which is classed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Asking his views on DADT is like asking the head of Aryan Nations about desegregation.
Message tweeted and sent to Whitehouse…under CIVIL RIGHTS.
Dear Mr. Gates,What the court did was call out that the law and policy of DADT is wrong, on multiple points.
Homosexuals are already serving in the military. There should be no other changes needed, as fraternization remains banned, whether M-F, F-F, or M-M.
As a former sailor…I find Gates’ comments deeply offensive.
Like everyone is so incompetent that they’ll run screaming into the night at the slightest disruption of the status quo.
Gates is doing everything wrongHe is making an issue out of nothing. By acting like it will be this huge problematic change, he is creating those problems in the first place. It’s self-fulfilling prophecy. He can say that it needs to be done carefully, but he needs to emphasize that it’s a non-issue.
By some accounts, some people actually think DADT is gone now and are outing their friends and talking to them about it.
The defense secretary said that besides the changes in training, regulations will need revisions and changes may be necessary to benefits and Defense Department buildings. Why the hell would they need to change a Defense Department building?
Separate restrooms for gays?
Separate water fountains for homos?
I guess the bigots are afraid they can catch homosexual cooties.
GEE, KIDS, LOOK!
The snake rattles louder and louder. “IF there would be an impact” has become, “It has enormous consequences for our troops,” and “HOW the law will be repealed,” has nakedly become “WHETHER to repeal the law.”
Some of us tried to tell people all the way back in February that Gates was running a con. After defending the ban his entire career, including all of 2009, his claim to a sudden religious conversion was as believable as Tiger Woods claiming he’d always been faithful to his wife.
Add these February 2nd demands by Gates and his insincerity and treachery should have been obvious to everyone:
1. another “study” was necessary despite that fact that the Pentagon had been studying the subject for over half a century, and just five months before Mullen’s own flagship military journal, the Joint Force Quarterly, had published an article calling for an end to the ban, and declaring:
2. NO vote on ending the ban should be taken of ANY kind BEFORE “the study” was over, and
3.
But our “professional leaders” deepthroated the Kool-Aid and encouraged the Community to do the same, stopping just short of collecting donations to build a statue to him.
With, save for GetEqual, our advocacy groups flopping around like the proverbial chicken with its head cut off, with even “maybe repeal” dead until at least 2013, with Obama, Inc., virtually guaranteed to appeal the judge’s order to immediately stop discharges which is likely to be granted, and it unlikely that the Supremes will even consider doing anything positive for another year, we can well imagine this going on at the Pentagon:
Why are Obama and Gates pretending that the War Department is a co-equal branch of government?What do they know that we don’t.
The Services should have had a contingency plan in place by now.Yes, there will be some work to be done, but much could be done before the repeal.
1. Prepare a draft memo informing all ranks of the repeal, emphasizing that service members are expected to obey the law.
2. Prepare a draft revision of pertinent portions of the UMCJ.
3. Prepare a continuing legal education seminar for service and civilian lawyers about the revisions and on legal definitions of acceptable and unacceptable behavior (including emergency leave, right of service member to designate partner as next of kin, what constitutes acceptable PDA on base, etc)
4. Design training programs for officers.
5. Design training programs for enlisted.
After the ban has been lifted, the drafts and training programs can be tweaked if necessary, and then distributed to all ranks (memo #1) or available to all ranks (location of hard-copy and internet copy of amended UMCJ with revisions highlighted). Officers and service lawyers complete a short training program with quiz, probably via internet. These steps shouldn’t take more than a week. More detailed training of all officers, lawyers, enlisted ranks can be implemented over a period of a few months.
Policy or lawThis gay servicemember has a question: Is DADT a policy or a law? I can remember the Commander in Chief saying that there’s nothing he can do because DADT is a law. Now that the law has been declared unconstitutional Gates is saying that DADT is a policy that Congress will change. So which is it?
I went to work as normal today. Logged on as always, did official government business, same ole, same ole. No ceilings caved in, no extra security at the gate. Seriously, the other members of the military that I’ve talked to are so SICK of this debate. We’re here, we’re queer, we’ve BEEN HERE.
Perhaps someone should remind Sec. GatesThat in this country, civilians tell the military what to do, not the other way around.
Gates is doing everything right.Everything you describe is intentional.