While I usually respect and support many conservative initiatives, I strongly suspect this one is off the reservation.

Has anyone yet consulted the folks over at Volokh Conspiracy?

*Yawn* can’t TalkingPoints sent out new material?

Yes and no.

I am gay; unfortunately, I don’t hate myself enough to need whether or not I can serve in the military to validate me, as do most gays. Instead, I look at it from the perspective of a concerned and rational American, who recognizes that we don’t force women in the military to sleep and shower with men because of the sexual tensions and potential damage to our readiness and group cohesion that that could cause, and who fails to see why the same rule shouldn’t be applied to gays — especially when one considers the absolutely miniscule number of gays who are affected and the rampant antimilitary bigotry of the gay community.

Besides, why should the military be forced to accept people who, by virtue of their sexual orientation

Yup.

That’s because the gay community is quite openly bigoted and hateful towards the military on the basis of sexual orientation, and in fact supports and endorses groups like the Obama Party that call our own troops “uninvited and unwelcome intruders”.

If Choi cares so much about the military, you’d think he would attack the gay community for its hatred and bigotry towards it. But instead, he turns against his own comrades and demonstrates that his sexual orientation and need to support the anti-military gay community is more important.

As for Choi “lying,” I quite strongly doubt this is the case. He was a first lieutenant, a junior rank. One feature of DADT was the elimination of the sexual orientation question. Therefore, Choi didn’t “lie” on his enlistment forms. Any “lying” he did was in the day-to-day interactions on the job, where like many other gay people he was forced to lie by omission to keep his job.

There always have been, and there always will be, gay people in the military and in every other walk of life. If we are formally excluded from some situations, then we are forced to lie to get and keep those positions. Choi and others want to end that state of affairs, while “North Dallas Thirty” wants to preserve it.

“North Dallas Thirty,” are you gay? If so, do you hate yourself, or what?

Choi demonstrated inadvertently that DADT works just fine and does not preclude talented gay individuals from serving. His problem is that he no longer wants to live under the conditions. That’s his choice; plenty of talented people leave the armed forces annually without this level of gnashing and weeping.

More bluntly, Choi lied. He knew he was gay when he enlisted. He chose to lie to the armed forces, and he exploited that lie to get a free education. Now he’s suddenly and conveniently decided he’s against “lying” and demands that the rules he refuses to keep be changed for his own personal convenience.

Despite the slogan, ours is not a one-man army. It is a group of individuals who are more than capable of stepping up and filling the gap produced by the departure of individuals like Choi. There is zero reason to change a policy supported by the vast majority of military personnel to accomodate a tiny, tiny, fraction of a minority within a minority that has ample opportunity to serve their country in innumerable other ways.

Of course, the lapdog MSM viewed it through the prism of “how he’s so popular here compared to his own country.”

Scribes, Pharisees and hypocrites all.

Regards,
Peter H.