Thanks to repeal of DADT, soldiers can’t use phony “I’m Gay” declarations to get out of military service with honorable discharges

The Left and the Homosexual lobby have sold the American people a bill of goods by portraying the plight of homosexuals surviving in the United Sates armed forces under conditions that prohibit them from being their true selves.



What a crock!



The Left never needs to worry about facts to sell their ideas. It’s always about a template that suits a particular agenda, namely homosexuals not being able to shout, “We’re here we’re queer, so why can’t I tell the world?”



But, facts are stubborn things and the facts are that a whopping majority of homosexual discharges under DADT were made by men just wanting to get our of the military without even being homosexuals at all.



AFA.net reports that according to National Review Online, there may be a whole lot of homosexuals who just got an unpleasant surprise. With the repeal of the law prohibiting homosexual service in the United States military, they just lost their “get out of jail free” card.



The hyperventilating out-of-the-mainstream media has been full of supposed stories of horrific discrimination against homosexuals in the military which they say resulted in many of the best and brightest getting ash-canned from the military through invidious witch-hunts.



However, the facts tell a much different story. And while facts have never troubled the left, let alone played a significant role in any single part of their worldview, these facts actually should be sobering for our pretty-in-pink wannabe soldiers.



It turns out - get this - that 85% of all homosexuals who got discharged on the basis of the law that prohibits open homosexual service in the armed services threw themselves out of the military.



This little factoid is not the fanciful production of AFA or FRC. It comes straight from the Pentagon itself.



In other words, these gay soldiers didn’t get outed by some snitch. They outed themselves. They went to their commanding officer and said, I’m gay, get me out of here.



According to the Pentagon, “approximately 85% of discharges for homosexual conduct have been made on the basis of statements by the Service member.”



And even more distressing for our would-be limp-wristed enlistees, the Pentagon adds helpfully that “approximately 25% of these discharges have occurred in the first four months of a Service member’s service.”



In other words, homosexuals - or people who suddenly discovered latent homosexual tendencies when they could use it to parachute out of the military - signed up for the all-volunteer army, got a few weeks into basic and said, forget this noise. I’m outtahere.



All they had to do was admit they were gay - whether they were or not - and they got their walking papers along with an honorable discharge.



And don’t think for a moment that straight soldiers didn’t perjure themselves - claiming they were gay when they weren’t - just to go back home to Momma.



According to NRO:

As one Col. Om Prakash put it in a 2009 report for the U.S. War College, one possible explanation for the rise of discharges for homosexuality observed after DADT was that “given the recent reduction in stigma associated with homosexuality in society at large, simply declaring one is homosexual, whether true or not, is the fastest way to avoid further military commitment and receive an honorable discharge.”



Well, all that’s gone now, both for gays and straights willing to tell odious lies about themselves. If a homosexual signs up now, he’s stuck with the whole magilla. Go to your superior officer now and say, hey, I’m a flaming homosexual, I hate the army, let me out of here, the superior officer will say, tough darts, those days are gone. You’re stuck with us now, Nancy-boy.



So, who’s sorry now?



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Homophobia-phobia and Carl Paladino

Finally another person besides me comes to the defense of Carl Paladino.

He was hung out to dry by himself after he made comments about homosexuality the vast majority of people in this country agree with-that it is an unacceptable lifestyle.

But, people are so afraid of being called homo-phobic, they remain silent and let a small radical minority rule the agenda and control public “thought”.

I made the point in a prior post that the scourge of Political Correctness can’t be defeated by a single person, it takes a group effort to stand up and refuse to be intimidated by homos and straight Liberals calling them homophobic.

Sadly, this wasn’t the case with Carl Paladino who stood up for Biblical values and nobody else had the courage to stand with him.

I’m posting the entire article because it’s an important piece of writing that states the conservative cause.

Homophobia-phobia and Carl Paladino
By
Sandy Rios


The Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco celebrated gay pride by featuring men in leather, posing as the disciples of Jesus at the Last Supper with whips, chains and sex toys on a Michelangelo-like table. Gay men bumped and ground each other on floats…as others simulated oral sex.

Similar displays took place in Chicago and Columbus…from men wearing large male member enhancements shaped like cones to “Dykes on Bikes” and other lesbians proudly exposing their breasts. Male transvestites, not to be outdone, also bared theirs.

New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino chose not to march in the New York Gay Pride Parade saying, “that’s not the example we should be showing our children.” His opponent, Andrew Cuomo, attended that parade…. and took along his kids.

Students across the nation are being indoctrinated into homosexuality. It’s introduced in every discipline, affirmed by homosexual lecturers, read about in required reading, observed in propaganda films and acted out in plays from “Angels in America” to “The Laramie Project.” Parents who object are silenced and even arrested for trying to protect their children.

Children are being shamed and shunned for any objection to homosexuality. In some schools “tolerance circles” are used. Those who agree that homosexuality is good get to form a circle. Those opposed stand in the middle to be ridiculed.

Carl Paladino said at an Orthodox Jewish gathering in Brooklyn, “I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option…it isn’t.”

Paladino later added, ”I oppose the homosexual agenda, whether they call it marriage, civil unions or domestic partnership. Marriage is between a man and a woman- period.”

Mr. Cuomo said Paladino’s “statement displays a stunning homophobia and a glaring disregard for basic equality.”

In liberal New York, Cuomo is a hero and Paladino falling in the polls.

Even conservative pundits have distanced themselves from Paladino. "Racism" used to be the most dreaded charge in political discourse. "Homophobia" is taking its place. Let's call it homophobia-phobia: a fear of the mere accusation.

This fear is causing otherwise bright political observers to prove their “tolerance” by attacking those they might actually agree with. They rush to join the homosexual lobby’s clever truth-twisting at the expense sometimes of common sense and deeply held convictions. Better to join the mob in criticizing Paladino than face the humiliation of being thought of as "homophobic"!

Better to join the groupthink and please editors and publishers and advertisers who will also be targeted if they dare NOT follow the party line.

Better to put our children in danger and let our homosexual friends die early deaths than report what we see and what we know than to offend (we think) homosexuals on our staffs and in our families. Their feelings are much more important to protect than our children’s hearts and minds on this issue.

The rush to groupthink and political correctness is staggering.

Expressing any objection to this moral chaos gives one professional “cooties.” It’s this that drives otherwise clear thinkers to cling fearfully to the bandwagon and throw their own children overboard in order to be well-regarded by peers.

Where is the courage? Where is the critical thinking? Cuomo is the hero and Paladino the villain for NOT taking his children to witness the debauchery of a gay pride parade?

Paladino is the villain for saying homosexuality is not a preferred lifestyle? Homosexuals say that all the time. “Do you think I would choose this if I had a choice? “ said a young gay man to me on the Tyra Banks Show.

I hear this repeatedly from gay men who respond to my frequent writing on the issue. “This is not a choice!” they declare repeatedly.

So… we’re going to allow our children to be indoctrinated to accept homosexuality and to experiment knowing this? Reasonable homosexuals don’t even approve.

The New York Times and others added to the real hatred in this story by reporting, in conjunction with Paladino's remarks, a series of “hate crimes” against gay men. One young man tragically committed suicide when roommates made a video of his same sex activities public.

Reporters accused Paladino of contributing to and being in support of their mistreatment.

So…let me get this straight…(forgive the pun). Believing in traditional marriage and holding the Biblical view of homosexuality means you believe homosexuals should be beaten and humiliated?

Wanting to protect your children from indoctrination means you are unconcerned about gays goaded into committing suicide?

Candidates who refuse to sign on to this madness are unworthy to lead while those embracing this irrationality more capable of rational public policy?

Candidates who show courage on the issue are disqualified, but those with no moral backbone are the leaders of tomorrow? Is anyone listening?
Is there a cure for this phobia?

I believe there is. It will take courage, but will actually save lives and make that of the living richer. Stop the bullying. Stop any semblance of moral superiority toward homosexuals…but hold fast to what thousands of years of human history has taught us on the issue and don’t allow the radical movement to redefine our whole society for the sake of their agenda because you have no courage.

Paladino is the hero in this race for his lack of fear. May his kind of leadership and lack of Homophobia Phobia increase.

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Far Left Looney Bogger Greg Sargent Smears Christine O’Donnell’s Christian Beliefs on Homosexuality and Pornography

The Leftists cannot defend the Obama agenda on it’s merits because an overwhelming majority of the American people are poised to make their voices heard through the ballot box in November.

So it’s time to crank of the smear machine against Conservatives to divert attenuation away from issues that really matter.

Greg Sargent who runs The Plum Line, one of the most Far Left blogs on the net, made his mud pie contribution by accusing Christine O’Donnell, the Republican candidate for the Senate from Delaware, of believing that homosexuality is a personality disorder.

It makes no difference to Sargent what O’Donnel’s position is on high taxes, Obama’s big spending ways or his failed stimulus package and 10 unemployment.

No, that would be to responsible.

Instead he tries to paint O’Donnell as an “extremists”. The Left loves to the E-word around but never explains how or why a person is extreme.

But Sargent goes further than that. He uses a 2006 profile of O’Donnell to make his accusation when he writes:

This passage from a 2006 profile of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware's Wilmington News Journal may not be conclusive, but it certainly cries out for further exploration:

She considers homosexuality an identity disorder and sees pornography and the lust it engenders as selfish gratification.

"Sex is a covenant between a man and a woman and God," she says. "Your job is to satisfy the other, the giving of oneself to another. Porn turns that around."

He also writes:

At a minimum, though, that is an extreme view, and its appearance next to her name in a reputable paper is grounds to ask whether she really believes this, particularly given the views she's already expressed on related topics.

How can Sargent accuse O’Donnell of believing that homosexuality is a personality disorder when she doesn’t even mention homosexuality in the quote he provides?

And what exactly is extreme in saying that sex is a covenant between a man and a woman and God?

Does Sargent really want to examine God’s role in O’Donnell’s life and what’s written in the Bible about homosexuality or sex or anything else?

I really don’t think so.

What Greg Sargent is simply doing, and quite clumsily at that, is throwing the proverbial spaghetti against the wall and seeing if any of it sticks.

He would go to any length to portray O’Donnell as being something that she’s not to protect his buddies in the Democrat Party that are running this country into the ground.

I wonder if Sarget posed these kinds of questions about Keith Ellison, the Muslim Democrat congressman from Minnesota. Islam has the same view of homosexuality as Christianity, namely that it’s an immoral life style. Has Sargent ever accused Ellison of being an extremist? In fact, in Islamic countries in the Middle East they chop off homosexual’s heads if they’re not in the mood to stone them to death instead.

But, according to Sargent, O’Donnell is the extremist.

Nice try Greg, but stick to writing about something more relevant like Michelle Obama’s arms.

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Lutherans Offer Warm Welcome to Gay Pastors

This is a very unfortunate story to report. Like so many other things in our society, Liberalism has infected the Body of Christ-The Church.

But, it’s all part of what Scripture foretells anyway.

Of course I expect to called intolerant or homophobic for even writings this.

Take your best shot!

The bible says that homosexuality is immoral. These Liberal theologians disagree and interpret Scripture to suit their own sinful life style.

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With a laying on of hands, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Sunday welcomed into its fold seven openly gay pastors who had until recently been barred from the church’s ministry.

The ceremony at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco was the first of several planned since the denomination took a watershed vote at its convention last year to allow noncelibate gay ministers in committed relationships to serve the church.

“Today the church is speaking with a clear voice,” the Rev. Jeff R. Johnson, one of the seven gay pastors participating in the ceremony, said at a news conference just before it began. “All people are welcome here, all people are invited to help lead this church, and all people are loved unconditionally by God.”

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, known as the E.L.C.A., with 4.6 million members, is now the largest Protestant church in the United States to permit noncelibate gay ministers to serve in the ranks of its clergy — an issue that has caused wrenching divisions for it as well as for many other denominations.

Since the church voted last summer to allow noncelibate gay clergy members to serve, 185 congregations have taken the two consecutive votes required to leave the denomination, said Melissa Ramirez Cooper, a spokeswoman for the church, citing a tally that she said was updated monthly.

There are 10,396 congregations nationwide.

The Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ also allow gay ministers. And the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s general assembly voted at its convention earlier this month to do so, though the vote will become church law only if is ratified by a majority of the church’s 173 regional presbyteries.

Two smaller Lutheran denominations, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, do not ordain ministers in same-sex relationships.

The seven ministers welcomed at the ceremony on Sunday had already been ordained and have been serving at churches or outreach ministries in the San Francisco Bay Area, but they had not been officially recognized on the clergy roster.

“The effect of them being brought onto our roster is they will now be part of our national database of pastors who are available for service in any of our 10,500 churches,” said Bishop Mark W. Holmerud, who leads the Sierra Pacific Synod, which includes San Francisco. He noted that while some congregations were open to consider hiring openly gay ministers, others were not — and each congregation is free to choose.

The Evangelical Lutherans designed Sunday’s special “rite of reconciliation” to mark the formal inclusion of gay ministers who were ordained in “extraordinary rites” that were not recognized by the church but were conducted by a group called Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries.

Three more gay pastors will be welcomed at ceremonies in September and October, two in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area and one in Chicago, Ms. Cooper said.

Amalia Vagts, executive director of Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, said, “It’s been a long and hard journey for a lot of people, and it feels like this is a new beginning in the history of the E.L.C.A.”

Some who opposed it are now poised to leave. The Rev. Mark Chavez, director of Lutheran CORE, a coalition of theologically conservative Lutheran churches, said his group expected to form a new denomination, the North American Lutheran Church, in August.

He said of the ceremony on Sunday, “It’s just another steady step taken by the E.L.C.A. to move the denomination further and further away from most Lutheran churches around the world and from the whole Christian church, unfortunately.”
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Marie Osmond May Need to Check into Mental Hospital

There are few things in life worse than losing a child.

It doesn’t even matter if an adult child is lost, the pain is still unbearable. Marie Osmond’s life has been turned upside down and she is still hurting.



From The National Enquirer:

Grief-stricken MARIE OSMOND, still in deep depression over son's suicide, may now be headed for a psych ward.

Her family is so concerned that the beloved singer is not coming out of her deep depression following her son Michael's suicide that they are considering the ultimate intervention - placing her in a mental facility.

The fragile 50-year-old entertainer is still shattered by the young man's death in February - and some nights her brother Donny, 52, has to plead with the grief-stricken star to go onstage.

Distraught family members fear that a temporary stay in a mental institution could be the only chance of keeping her alive, say sources."Every performance takes another bite out of her emotional health," says a source close to Marie.
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Rash of Scandals Tests Democrats at Sensitive Time

When Nancy Pelosi said that her congress was going to be the most ethical congress in U.S. history it was a knock against all Republicans.

What have the American people gotten in return for this promise?

Answer- How about a group of tax cheats like Charles Rangel and his dubious colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus with their creative ways of stealing taxpayer money through non-profits? Lets throw in Eric Massa, an undercover homo who can’t stop chasing male staffers. Is this the kind of ethics Nancy Pelosi was talking about?

The New York Times reports:

The ethical woes facing Democrats are piling up, with barely a day passing in recent weeks without headlines from Washington to New York and beyond filled with word of scandal or allegations of wrongdoing.

The troubles of Gov. David A. Paterson of New York, followed by those of two of the state’s congressmen, Charles B. Rangel and Eric J. Massa, have added to the ranks of episodes involving prominent Democrats like Eliot Spitzer, Rod R. Blagojevich and John Edwards.

Taken together, the cases have opened the party to the same lines of criticism that Democrats, led by Representatives Nancy Pelosi, now the House speaker, and Rahm Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, used effectively against Republicans in winning control of the House and Senate four years ago.

The mix of power and the temptations of corruption can be a compelling political narrative at any time. But with voters appearing to be in an angry mood and many already inclined to view all things Washington with mistrust, the risks for Democrats could be that much greater this year.

With Election Day still eight months away, there is time to avert a history-is-repeating-itself storyline. But Democrats, who are already on the defensive over the economy, health care and federal spending and are facing a re-energized conservative movement, suddenly have a set of ethical issues to deflect as well. “Speaker Pelosi famously promised the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history,” Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader, said Thursday. “Yet here we go again.”

In 2006, when Democrats were battling for control of the House, the message of their campaign against the Republicans could be boiled down to a three-word slogan: culture of corruption. Democratic leaders aggressively seized on each indictment of a Republican member of Congress or lobbyist, building an argument that the controlling party had become arrogant and was in urgent need of a housecleaning.

So is that moment — in reverse fashion — now approaching for Democrats?
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Gay Lobby Using Children to Fight for Gay Marriage

A favorite tactic of Liberals, who call themselves Progressives to soft-peddle what they really are, is to play upon people’s emotions instead of their intellect.

For example, voting for Barack Obama to make him the first African American president would be an historic event that would rock the world. Calling it “historic” was enough of an emotional tug to sway millions of voters into ignoring everything else he brought to the table, oh like…eh , his lack of experience, his socialistic views, and his comfort with all things radically Left.

But, I digress.

Liberals always play the “emotion card” and its quite effective to motivate people who are to busy with their day to day lives to realize what’s really going on.

So, it turns out that Gay Marriage advocates turned to a favorite tactic, using a child to play the emotion card:

A Child’s Stigma



How touching isn’t it?

Now, who would want that little blonde head boy to continue to go to school and be ridiculed by other kids? I mean children can be very cruel, right? And the part where one of his mothers almost burst in tears is especially designed to make you feel like a monster if you don’t support Gay Marriage.

It’s quite effective and a classic “red haring” to say the least. Please check out one of the greatest insights on how Liberals use reed herrings by Euripides on his wonderful blog, Self Evident Truths.

When the matter of Gay Marriage is ever discussed, absent from the conversation is how faith plays a central role in people’s feelings on the matter. Homosexuality is not only prohibited in the Christian faith, but also in Judaism and Islam as well. All three faiths believe that marriage should be between a man and woman.

That means billions, with a “B”, of people of this planet share this fundamental conviction.

But, Leftists have successfully controlled the rhetorical battle thanks to ineffective articulators on the Conservative side in deference to political correctness.

So the Left continues the tactic of making emotional pleas and deftly divert the language to a discussion of Civil Rights for Gays and Second Class citizenship for homosexuals having to endure being civilly unionized instead of married.

The battle continues…

Try to pay attention to the deceit from The Left that never ends.

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