GOProud’s release on Pentagon’s Working Group on DADT:
According to The Washington Post, sources familiar with the findings of the Pentagon’s Working Group say the study will show that an overwhelming majority active duty and reserve troops do not believe lifting the ban on gays in the military would be harmful. More than 70 percent of active-duty and reserve troops said the effect of repeal would be positive, mixed or nonexistent. Additionally, the study will conclude there is only minimal and isolated risk to our current war efforts in the lifting the ban. In response, Christopher R. Barron, Chairman of the Board of GOProud, the only national organization representing gay conservatives and their allies, issued the following statement:
“The findings of the Pentagon Working Group will confirm that now is the time to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ These findings should be dispositive for anyone who honestly wants a policy that reflects what’s in the best interest of our military and our national security. Those who continue to oppose repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will do so in the face of overwhelming and compelling evidence to the contrary from the Pentagon’s Working Group.
“We urge Republicans in the Senate to follow the recommendations of the Pentagon and join with the growing chorus of conservative foreign policy leaders like former Vice President Dick Cheney, potential 2012 Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, Liz Cheney of Keep America Safe, and Fox News’ Charles Krauthammer in supporting repeal of this failed policy.
“GOProud strongly urges the Senate to take up repeal in the lame-duck session. We urge the leadership in the Senate to make this vote a priority and to allow a clean vote on repeal – one free of procedural games or poisonous amendments related to other hot button issues such as abortion or immigration.
“As the only national gay organization that supported and endorsed Republican Senate candidates in this mid-term election, we have a unique voice to add to this debate. We look forward to working with our Republican allies in the Senate over the next few weeks to make repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell a reality.”
Good, one less obstical. Now the logistics of it might take some working out, but progress.
If Democrats in Congress do care about gay people as advertised… Now would be the time. (Lame duck session, Presidential election still two years off.)
Note I said ‘if’.
Not going to happen.
ILC, Sebastian,
What is more likely to happen is that a repeal gets passed in the 112th congress house. Then it goes on to the Senate where the Democrats have to ‘put up or shut up’ as will the President. No more using DADT as a political fundraiser for the left.
This, I’d love to see.
When I was in the Army (’69-’70) there was at least 1 gay solder in every unit I served in. Not once did it seem to matter to the majority of the troops. It’s time to lift the ban. I might also note, my dad and granddad were both career soldiers dating back to 1906 (when Gramps entered the Cavalry) and both said that there were gay troops. Prior to the Korean war they were often persecuted by their fellow soldiers, but it has been relatively rare since the mid fifties according to my sources. I will also note, that the majority of gay troops were patriots first, and closeted gays second.
Breaking from HotAir, the supremes get one right.
http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/11/new-plea-to-end-military-gay-ban/
VE Vet,
I never could ask my great Uncle (WW II vet) but my little brother says the attitude now a days seems to be “As long as they shoot straight (pun intended) and do their job, what’s the issue?”
Now if any soldier acts inappropriately to another, he’s likely to get a blanket party. That’s not ‘gay bashing’ that’s ‘societal evolution’.
Check Out Cindi McCain’s recent statements.
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This is all pointless!
Obama doesn’t care anything about anyone but himself. All issues are ‘potential hostages’ to his agenda. It no longer matters what is right, or what is wrong. Everyone is expendable to the Commander In Chief. He’s sell us all out for an good Ego-stroking!
While the liberal tyrants remain in office, no issue will be decided on its merit. Only those things with a ‘high negotiating value’ will ever be considered.
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Yes indeed, do.
But something Martin Luther King once said resonates in your actions: “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/manhattan_diary/cindy-mccain-caves-to-pressure-on-dadt-107858909.html