Despite the President’s efforts to sabotage his half-hearted campaign pledge, which he stalled during the first two years of his presidency, to repeal Clinton’s idiotic “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” patch on the ban on gays in the military, Barack Obama signed the repeal earlier today (in attendance: writer Lance Black, who won an Oscar for writing the Milk screenplay, and the son of a World War 2 veteran who was saved by a gay comrade during the Battle of the Bulge).
Though Obama admitted in his book Dreams From My Father to having problems with homosexuals, and he invited an anti-gay Christian to preach at his inauguration, and he defended the Clinton administration’s ban on gay marriage, which he opposes, and he has refused to denounce Islamic persecution of gays, President Obama did sign the bill, which he damned with faint praise by declaring the action “good…very good.” With no real vocal opposition among Republicans, eight of whom (including Scott Brown) supported the measure in the Senate, and with general public support, approving this law was an easy win. Some scholars have asserted that a Congressional repeal was not necessary, arguing that Obama could have issued an executive order, as Truman did when he integrated the U.S. Army. And lifting the ban on gays in the military was delayed by Obama, who sees everything in terms of race and class and is clearly uncomfortable talking about the individual rights of gays. There is also recent evidence that Republicans may be moving toward secularism on gay-related issues. Lifting the ban was a no-brainer.
However, as I have warned on this blog, gays and those who think they deserve equal protection under the law should think twice. The repeal does not take effect until “certification” and a government-mandated waiting period, challenges remain, and it is obvious that Obama, whose moral views were shaped by New Left college professors and the vicious Judeo-Christian Reverend Jeremiah Wright, will not hesitate to throw gays, blacks, and anyone else “under the bus”. Personally, I see no evidence that gays in the military constitute a threat to unit cohesion, though military readiness is best evaluated by military generals. But if undercutting gays in the military suits his higher political aims, Obama and his cohorts, who are neither enlightened nor truly liberal when it comes to the rights and progress of man, can be counted on to do it. At least Obama signed the legislation, which faith-based Bush would not have done, and the more urgent issue facing our military and our nation’s defense is not gays who choose to be open, enlist and serve; it is the policy of appeasement toward our jihadist Moslem enemies and their state sponsors, such as Iran, and the suicidal rules of engagement imposed by our military and political leaders. We already have gays in the military, we have had them for decades, and we should accept open, honest gays in the military and move on to demand that our leaders achieve the proper purpose of the military: defense of America and eradication and, as is necessary, annihilation of those who systematically subjugate all human beings, including gays: the jihadist Islamic enemy.