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OneNewsNow (a subsidiary of the American Family Association) has an interesting article up on the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) entitled Military’s DADT supporters effectively silenced. An excerpt:
Retired Army Brigadier General Douglas Lee, board president of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, says troops who oppose openly homosexual military service don’t dare say so.
Everywhere you look in the military, I think it’d be safe to say there’s simply pressure to not rock the boat on this,” he offers.
Lee says those who supported DADT have been effectively silenced.
“There’s no vehicle or way for them to express what they’re thinking about these subjects — they have to suck it up, as they say,” continues the retired Army officer. “There are people now who live in what I call a culture of fear and don’t want to speak out about it.
Fear. The General is citing fear.
Let me remind folk some of what Elaine Donnelly of the Center For Military Readiness believed would occur should DADT be repealed:
…inappropriate passive/aggressive actions common in the homosexual community,” the prospects of “forcible sodomy” and “exotic forms of sexual expression…
And in graphic form what she claimed would happen if DADT were repealed:
And…
[More below the fold.]
Nothing Donnelly predicted has came to pass.
One wonders who really was promoting fear. I believe the good General is projecting on others the kind of fear his side has engaged in when they were arguing against the repeal of DADT.
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Ah, he could be correct to some extent, but that’s how the military works. I suspect there are some people who think drug use should be OK, but I’m guessing they kind of suck it up and don’t say anything about that. We’ve seen a few military people who have a desire to force themselves, heterosexually, on subordinates. I suspect they believe this should be OK, but they usually don’t openly “rock the boat” on that either.
This is fear bordering on paranoia.
When LGB troops feared for their careers under DADT, that was rational. Actual law enforced by real people drummed thousands of people out of the military.
Post-DADT, there are no regs requiring troops to be personally affirming of their peers’ orientation. There is no penalty for being outed as a conservative Christian or a member of an anti-LGBT church.
When anti-LGBT advocates talk about living in fear if/when people are treated more fairly, I want to ask, what happened to your courage?
They have the nerve, the chutzpah, to complain about fear? How about being in the military before repeal, when bigotry was if not encouraged given a not and a wink? And being outed resulted in dismissal.
But living IN FEAR FOR ONE’S LIFE! What phony, lying, hypocritical detrimental sacks of puss those faux Christy Repiglickin’s are.