Defense Secretary Gates: Let’s Ignore the Law

By Bob Ellis on July 1st, 2009

CG87DJust when you think you couldn’t hear any more asinine excuses to legitimize homosexual behavior, one never fails to come along.

According to CNS News,  Defense Secretary Robert Gates is looking for creative ways to ignore the law dealing with homosexuals  in the military.  I hope you caught the impact of what I just said: the government official charged with ensuring laws and regulations governing the entire military are obeyed is looking for ways to ignore one of those laws.

(Sigh).  In a more sane, morally-centered age, that would have been grounds for dismissal.  In our insane, morally-adrift culture, however….

From the CNS News article:

For example, Gates said, the military might not have to expel someone whose sexual orientation was revealed by a third party out of vindictiveness or suspect motives. That would include, Gates said, someone who was “jilted” by the gay service member.

As a former military police investigator who investigated various military offenses, I can tell you that this sort of policy–if applied fairly and uniformly to all offenses–would be quite interesting.

For instance, one offense which was frequently investigated was adultery.  While this may sound strange to civilians for adultery to be considered a crime, in addition to the assault it commits against marriage (the most fundamental and important of all human institutions) and the sanctity of a vow, it also undermines good order and discipline in the military.

The primary (and only real) duty of the U.S. military is to bring irresistible force upon our enemies, and anything that hinders that effort is harmful to the mission.  By committing adultery, the perpetrator causes angst, emotional and psychological turmoil, and lack of focus among military members and thus degrades mission effectiveness.

So if we applied Secretary Gates’ “creative” way to ignore the fact that homosexual behavior is incompatible with military service, then the military should also start ignoring adultery cases where it was reported by a “jilted” third party.

This should really extend to other military crimes as well.  If someone was having a relationship with a military member who was selling secrets to our enemies, and they only reported the treason to the authorities after being “jilted” by them, then we should ignore the treason.

And certainly, in the interest of fair and impartial application of the law, similar excuses should be applied to theft, murder, rape, arson, and anything else that might come to light because one person upset another.

Sounds like a perfectly rational, mature approach that can only improve the U.S. military’s war making capability, doesn’t it?

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  • DCM
    I say, if they want to serve, let them serve. But then expel them if they are guilty of inappriopriate behavior while serving.
  • Substitute the word 'black' for 'homosexuals' and this biased supremacist diatribe could have been written back when the military was desegregated and racist groups and leaders and fundamentalist religious organizations cried the sky would fall. Tens of thousands of service members are gay and lesbian. To require them to lie about their families is dishonorable and not acceptable. Dozens of countries have long ago included openly gay and lesbian citizens in their militaries without losing an ounce of unit cohesiveness or military readiness. The majority of Americans, including Republicans, are in favor of repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell. It's time. The anti-gay supremacists can now go sulk in the corner with the white supremacists. Society is casting off, yet again, antiquated bigotries and misinformation as they finally see their gay and lesbian brothers, sisters, friends and colleagues as fully human whole competent contributing citizens who deserve unreservedly full equality under the Law.
  • You fail to grasp a couple of extremely important aspects of this issue.

    The first is that skin color is an innate, morally neutral physical characteristic. Homosexual behavior is a behavior, one that can be chosen or resisted, one that carries with it tremendous health risks, one that is highly immoral, one that is unnatural, and one that would cause plenty of problems in the close quarters in which military members have to live, especially in the field. The military's job is to fight our enemies effectively, not sort out interpersonal issues caused by quartering troops with people whose behavior indicates they shouldn't even be there in the first place.

    The second is that military service is a privilege not a right. The military rejects people every day for various types of behaviors and factors. If homosexuals want to serve in the military, they can make the decision that service is more important to their sexual inclinations and reject that inclination. If their sexual practices are more important to them, they can stay out of the military and perform homosexual sex to their heart's desire.

    But we should not undermine our military readiness on the altar of political correctness.
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