Comment & Debate
Retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak said in October of 2008: If you want to do something like racial integration or the integration of openly homosexual soldiers, sailors and marines, airmen, the service leadership will have to get ahead of it. Service leadership will have to go to the gay and lesbian annual ball and lead the first dance. I’ve spoken many, many times at black history week and am proud to do it. . . . But I couldn’t see how I could become an advocate for open homosexuality in Air Force combat units. I don’t see how people can do it today.[1]
Cal Thomas. “Don’t ask don’t tell, and don’t legitimize.” Salt Lake City Tribune. October 15, 2009: “What we tolerate we will get more of. Sexual behavior is an important cultural and moral issue. President Obama won the election with just 52 percent of the popular vote and a margin of 7 percent over Sen.”
Marine General Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a March 2007 interview with the Chicago Tribune, “I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts.”[2]
James M. Wallace. “The Military’s Ban Against Homosexuals Should Remain.” The Complete Heretic. July 25, 1994: “The real objective of those seeking to lift the ban is not the end of some perceived injustice but the normalization of homosexuality. This is entirely unacceptable. While a society can tolerate some deviancy on its fringes, it cannot accept it within its mainstream. Homosexuality represents a threat in that it creates an inappropriate sexual outlet that corrupts the natural relations between men and women. If increasing numbers of men and women opt out of child-bearing and child-rearing and choose ‘alternative’ lifestyles instead, our society increasingly will be unable to renew and maintain itself and will ultimately founder. Those who choose the ‘traditional’ lifestyle will find their task made more difficult by a disintegrating social structure.”