Despite a recent election where Americans rejected their radical agenda, Congressional Democrats, during a lame duck session, are trying to force an end to the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding open homosexuals serving in the military. While the economy still struggles and nearly 10 percent of Americans are out of work as we approach Christmas, Congress focuses on repaying their shrinking base.
To learn more about this battle, Family Research Council Action (see Tom McClusky at FRC’s The Cloakroom blog) will host a live national video Webcast tomorrow, December 2, at 1:00 p.m., entitled, Mission Compromised: How the Military is Being Used to Advance a Radical Agenda.
Veteran military commanders, Members of Congress, and policy experts will join FRC President Tony Perkins . . .
to assess the Pentagon’s study on the impact of open homosexuality on combat effectiveness and readiness. … and discuss the report’s shortcomings and plans by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to rush a vote during the lame-duck session of Congress without thorough hearings and testimony by battlefield commanders (see entire alert).
According to FRC, the Defense Authorization Act, on which the U.S. Senate may soon vote, not only would force open homosexuality on the military if enacted, it also will turn military medical facilities into abortion centers. Since the vote is expected to be very close, it’s vital that you encourage your friends and family to tune into this live Webcast. Participants also will learn how they can help to stop this last ditch attempt by outgoing liberal senators to force a liberal social agenda onto the military.
In addition to briefing on the significance of this legislation, guests will answer viewer questions via SMS text or e-mail. Guests include: Gen. Carl Mundy, former Commandant of the Marine Corps; Sgt. Brian Fleming, Afghanistan war veteran and Purple Heart recipient; Douglas Lee, Chaplain (Brigadier General, Ret.); Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis, (Ret), Senior Fellow, National Security, Family Research Council; Cathy Ruse, Senior Fellow, Legal Studies, Family Research Council; and Peter Sprigg, Senior Fellow for Policy Studies, Family Research Council.
Please register now (click here) and help spread the word about the live Webcast on December 2.
Virginia U.S. Senator Jim Webb is a key vote in this fight. (Virginia’s other U.S. Senator, Mark Warner, has indicated he supports repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell”). Because of the nature of this crucial vote, we have partnered with CitizenLink (see “DADT” article by Catherine Snow) and FRCAction on this ad running now throughout the commonwealth. Please listen and share this link with as many people as you can.
You people are a trip. When it came to the 2006 marriage amendment you say it’s now a decided issue because 60% of Virginians rejected gay marriage. Well, in the recent Pentagon study, a full 70% of military personnel see no problem with letting gays serve openly. You conveniently don’t mention that here. The British military has allowed gays to serve openly for several years now and their top brass say there’s been no adverse effect. In fact they say overall morale actually improved. But, of course we can’t learn anything from the Brits.
Still, there’s a much greater concern for you paranoid homophobes though. You know full well that once gays serve over a period of time with no problems, it will only boost the acceptance of gay marriage.
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[...] To learn more about this battle, Family Research Council Action (see Tom McClusky at FRC’s The Cloakroom blog) will host a live national video Webcast tomorrow, December 2, at 1:00 p.m., entitled, Mission Compromised: How the Military is Being Used to Advance a Radical Agenda. (continued here) [...]
Please keep in mind that many Democrats are NOT supporting a change in the current policy, in spite of what are the lame duck leaders’ intentions.
Issues like this one, are topics where organizations such as yours can make some very strong progress among Democrats, and build solid alliances for other issues and initiatives.
The chief problems with the current repeal effort are:
1. The lame duck session has no mandate from the people to act, least of all on this issue.
2. There has been no research that shows that a change in the current policy will improve our war-fighting ability, which is, of course, what our military is for.
3. The so-called “survey” being touted by Secretary Gates, was not a randomized study and is therefore NOT representative of the attitudes of our soldiers. Gates’ “survey” is nothing but propaganda, and he should be forced to resign.