This is the year that will go down in history, people have said. They don’t know the half of it. In a lame duck session of Congress, after a brutal beating at the polls in November, the United States overturned “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), the military ban on allowing gays to serve openly in the military. With much fanfare, and taking a “victory lap”, President Obama quickly signed the bill into law to the applause and acclaim of most of the liberal left, claiming that this nation is not one “that says ‘don't ask, don't tell,’ we are a nation that says, "out of many, we are one,”.
For the first time in the history of the United States, gays and lesbians will be allowed to serve openly in the military. The last bastion of real world common sense has been finally overrun by the liberals and activist gay agenda. DADT was bad enough, but this is a horrendous decision. Two decisions by arguably the two worst presidents in the history of the entire United States. Both decisions made and signed into law by evidently heterosexual men for the benefit of a very minute minority.
Since the gay population of the United States is approximately 8.8 million people (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) or 2.5% to 3%, this is catering to a very vocal minority with a real political presence that intimidates most politicians. The big problem, one writer states, is not the gay population. It is the people that compare homosexual rights to civil rights, which is an affront to everyone who lived under the old segregation laws. Yet, some of these same people sing along with this horrible chorus just to be included in the party. It’s a tough thing to destroy every last vestige of your dignity just to be liked. How pathetic is that?
Firstly, my concern is not with the feelings of those homosexual men and women that are un
able to serve because they cannot “live a lie” and serve in the military without acting on their physical impulses. This is not about being “against” anything, although I am not personally attracted to that lifestyle. Not because I am homophobic. Homophobic implies that I am afraid of homosexuals. I am not afraid of homosexuals. As I said, I am not against anything. But I am “for” God’s righteousness. And allowing gays in the military might be the tipping point for God in His patience with this country.
We have been blessed by God in this country in that we have never been under the rule of another nation. Ask the French or Polish what it was like to have foreign soldiers patrolling their streets at night to enforce curfews they did not choose. We’ve been attacked twice on our own soil (December 7th, 1941, and September 11th, 2001) and that caused all kinds of problems. Think about what it would be like to have to fight a war in your own back yard. The last time that happened was the Civil War over 100 years ago. We’ve been fortunate to always fight on someone else’s soil. Watch the movie “Red Dawn” if you want to get a small taste from Hollywood’s view (though very distorted and with handsome actors and pretty female actresses). Real life never looks quite the way Hollywood makes it out to be.
For those choosing to serve, they will have to endure long briefings on how the homosexual life is now an acceptable lifestyle. Anyone who differs will be shown the door, whether they want to leave or not. How will chaplains be able to preach the “full gospel” if all references to such “sexual sin” have to be removed. Most people don’t know that when DADT was formalized, numerous general officers (ranks 0-7 through 0-10; the generals, admirals, etc) immediately put in their retirement paperwork and got out rather that serve under such a bad ruling. They were forced to stretch out their retirements so it did not look like the entire general corps was abandoning Bill Clinton after his fateful decision.
Allowing gays to serve openly will cause a plundering of our military to a level we‘ve yet to see. And once our military has been destroyed (from within), it will be an easy thing for our country to be destroyed from without.
Gays who have served honorably but were “outed” and then forced to leave the military speak of “suffering in silence”. I’ve seen numerous news stories about how a gay serviceman was continually persecuted because of his “secret lifestyle” and the emotional damage he suffered because of it. It reminds me of Matthew Shepard, the University of Wyoming student who was killed near Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998, due to his sexual orientation. Although I in no way condone what happened to that young man, you get the feeling that we haven’t heard the whole story about this instance that initiated hate crime laws on both state and federal levels. And I don’t think that we’ve heard the whole story about most of these other stories.
Suffice it to say that a gay person serving in the military does not suffer any more than any other person suffers who is not free to do anything they want. It’s a matter of choice and personal responsibility. Since there is no draft, no one forces anyone to serve. In fact, it is considered a privilege to serve in the United States Armed Forces. Most of the current jobs in the military have a civilian counterpart (with the exception maybe driving a tank, flying a fighter jet or attack helicopter) that pays more and allows you to choose where you live.
Is this the last straw for God? It took a lot for God to finally bring judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah. And those places had been at the height of rebellion for years. Can America get back on track with God and restore herself as a country that has God as its basis for existence? Has America gone too far in its excess? Only God knows. But remember this: God handed Israel over to captivity for 400 years (where they suffered, not in silence, but openly, under the hands of cruel nations) to teach them a lesson before He restored her to her former place in this world.
Let’s hope, for everyone’s sake, that this is not the case. One thing is certain. God is patient. But only just until we cross that line in the sand. Let us pray that we have not gone that far.
For the first time in the history of the United States, gays and lesbians will be allowed to serve openly in the military. The last bastion of real world common sense has been finally overrun by the liberals and activist gay agenda. DADT was bad enough, but this is a horrendous decision. Two decisions by arguably the two worst presidents in the history of the entire United States. Both decisions made and signed into law by evidently heterosexual men for the benefit of a very minute minority.
Since the gay population of the United States is approximately 8.8 million people (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) or 2.5% to 3%, this is catering to a very vocal minority with a real political presence that intimidates most politicians. The big problem, one writer states, is not the gay population. It is the people that compare homosexual rights to civil rights, which is an affront to everyone who lived under the old segregation laws. Yet, some of these same people sing along with this horrible chorus just to be included in the party. It’s a tough thing to destroy every last vestige of your dignity just to be liked. How pathetic is that?
Firstly, my concern is not with the feelings of those homosexual men and women that are un
able to serve because they cannot “live a lie” and serve in the military without acting on their physical impulses. This is not about being “against” anything, although I am not personally attracted to that lifestyle. Not because I am homophobic. Homophobic implies that I am afraid of homosexuals. I am not afraid of homosexuals. As I said, I am not against anything. But I am “for” God’s righteousness. And allowing gays in the military might be the tipping point for God in His patience with this country.We have been blessed by God in this country in that we have never been under the rule of another nation. Ask the French or Polish what it was like to have foreign soldiers patrolling their streets at night to enforce curfews they did not choose. We’ve been attacked twice on our own soil (December 7th, 1941, and September 11th, 2001) and that caused all kinds of problems. Think about what it would be like to have to fight a war in your own back yard. The last time that happened was the Civil War over 100 years ago. We’ve been fortunate to always fight on someone else’s soil. Watch the movie “Red Dawn” if you want to get a small taste from Hollywood’s view (though very distorted and with handsome actors and pretty female actresses). Real life never looks quite the way Hollywood makes it out to be.
For those choosing to serve, they will have to endure long briefings on how the homosexual life is now an acceptable lifestyle. Anyone who differs will be shown the door, whether they want to leave or not. How will chaplains be able to preach the “full gospel” if all references to such “sexual sin” have to be removed. Most people don’t know that when DADT was formalized, numerous general officers (ranks 0-7 through 0-10; the generals, admirals, etc) immediately put in their retirement paperwork and got out rather that serve under such a bad ruling. They were forced to stretch out their retirements so it did not look like the entire general corps was abandoning Bill Clinton after his fateful decision.
Allowing gays to serve openly will cause a plundering of our military to a level we‘ve yet to see. And once our military has been destroyed (from within), it will be an easy thing for our country to be destroyed from without.
Gays who have served honorably but were “outed” and then forced to leave the military speak of “suffering in silence”. I’ve seen numerous news stories about how a gay serviceman was continually persecuted because of his “secret lifestyle” and the emotional damage he suffered because of it. It reminds me of Matthew Shepard, the University of Wyoming student who was killed near Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998, due to his sexual orientation. Although I in no way condone what happened to that young man, you get the feeling that we haven’t heard the whole story about this instance that initiated hate crime laws on both state and federal levels. And I don’t think that we’ve heard the whole story about most of these other stories.
Suffice it to say that a gay person serving in the military does not suffer any more than any other person suffers who is not free to do anything they want. It’s a matter of choice and personal responsibility. Since there is no draft, no one forces anyone to serve. In fact, it is considered a privilege to serve in the United States Armed Forces. Most of the current jobs in the military have a civilian counterpart (with the exception maybe driving a tank, flying a fighter jet or attack helicopter) that pays more and allows you to choose where you live.
Is this the last straw for God? It took a lot for God to finally bring judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah. And those places had been at the height of rebellion for years. Can America get back on track with God and restore herself as a country that has God as its basis for existence? Has America gone too far in its excess? Only God knows. But remember this: God handed Israel over to captivity for 400 years (where they suffered, not in silence, but openly, under the hands of cruel nations) to teach them a lesson before He restored her to her former place in this world.
Let’s hope, for everyone’s sake, that this is not the case. One thing is certain. God is patient. But only just until we cross that line in the sand. Let us pray that we have not gone that far.
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