THE GAYING OF AMERICA
By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WorldNetDaily
 Adm. Jeremiah Denton |
These three retired military giants, U.S. Navy Cmdr. Eugene B. McDaniel, Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin and Adm. Jeremiah Denton, have scoured their experiences and come to the conclusion that using the military services for social experiments regarding homosexuality poses a huge danger to America's future.
"My outlook tells me we should pray the words 'God bless America' and immediately after that prayer offer another, 'God help America,'" Denton told WND regarding the plan by Congress and Barack Obama that is intended to allow openly homosexual behaviorial choices inside the ranks of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines.
Join thousands telling Obama and Congress to stop forcing open homosexuality on the U.S. military.
Denton's extravagant heroics remain unchallenged to this day. Flying missions over Vietnam, he was shot down and spent years as a POW, famously blinking Morse code with his eyes during a staged "interview" to reveal that the communist regime was using torture.
He later returned to the United States to thank the president and nation for being allowed to serve, and went on to represent America as a U.S. senator from Alabama and also serve President Reagan.
"My opinions on 'Don't ask, don't tell' are not politically correct," he warned.
He said the military is not set up to respond to the "hurt feelings" of everyone because there is just no room in the battle for freedom and rights for those disputes. The nation, and its military; he said, need to be focused on the fundamental – biblical – principles on which the nation was founded.
Facing demands from homosexual advocacy organizations as well as Obama, Congress recently authorized the repeal of the military's practice of "Don't ask, don't tell," given certain conditions are met such as "proof" that it will not significantly hurt the nation.
"Not enough emphasis is being placed upon the fact that growing counter-cultural development has already done grave harm to the well-being and security of the United States," Denton said. "A strong portion of our population, including our government, has already been persuaded that many of the most critically important fundamental founding principles of our country should be discarded – especially the critically important portion of the Declaration of Independence which holds that it is an inalienable truth in the field of human rights that 'all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.'"
He continued, "Our creator is God, and His Ten Commandments stipulate a set of behaviors that are permissible and a set of things that are not permissible in the pursuit of happiness by our citizens.
"Our government has all but abandoned this dictum … causing a tremendous deterioration of our culture and behavior. … A solid institution of the family is essential not only for a nation's survival, but for the survival of civilization."
He said the U.S. has abandoned a commitment to, or even recognition of, a morality.
"History has redundantly proven that when nations choose to ignore morality and the citizenry drops allegiance to God, they soon perish," he said.
"The government … is imposing social experimentation on our armed forces," he said. "We are taking a big new step toward violating the point of what President Reagan meant when he said, 'When we stop being one nation under God, we will become one nation gone under.'
"I regard the debate about DADT as one of the many symptoms of our progressive abandonment of the principles which brought this nation from birth to unparalleled world power…"
Joining the argument was Boykin, who in 1978 joined what would become the world's first Special Operations unit, Delta Force, where he was promised only "A medal and a body bag."
At one point he took a .50 caliber round in his chest and he spent his career bringing down warlords, despots and dictators. His team hunted in Columbia for drug lord Pablo Escobar and he helped capture dictator Manuel Noriega in Panama. His missions also took him to Mogadishu, Iran and Vietnam.
His book, "Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom," describes his adventures.
He told WND the move to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military should not even have been considered.
"There is no constitutional right to serve," he said. "The military always has discriminated based on physical limitations, bad life choices like felony convictions."
The argument, he said, is about the moral character of the nation.
"The anchor of our society should be the church," he said. "The church already has been compromised. This [the military] is the last bastion of ethics and morality. That's what it's about."
He said such social considerations are not only unnecessary but dangerous.
"The mission [of the military] is to fight and win wars. It's never changed," he said. "There's no question that what this is going to do is reduce the effectiveness of the military."
He said America will "suffer the consequences."
"The No. 1 job of any president, of any administration, is to protect the nation," he said. "Every decision has to be made with a focus on enhancing the ability to do that."
However, the move by Congress and Obama, fails.
"No one can demonstrate this decision is going to enhance readiness," he said. "Quite the opposite."
McDaniel, a pilot in Vietnam, was headed to Van Dien, North Vietnam, when his jet was shot down and he spent nearly six years as a POW. After leaving the Navy as a captain, he founded the American Defense Institute to encourage patriotism.
"I'm very concerned about the impact [of repeal]," he told WND. He said it was difficult enough for military vehicles such as aircraft carriers to create opportunities for women, but the issue of those of the same sex openly exhibiting attraction to another in the ranks will befuddle standards and "destroy the morale."
"There is no upside," he said.
Also joining the argument was retired Gen. Carl Mundy, USMC, 30th commandant of Marines, whose remarks appeared on the Dakota Voice.
"Ordinary citizens have the right to say whatever they wish, to be active in politics of their choice, to demonstrate, to groom or dress as they prefer, to live wherever and with whomever they wish, and short of an absolute violation of law, to behave as they wish," he said. "Uniformed military members do not have these rights. By both verbal oath and personal signature upon enlistment, they swear before God to support the Constitution that gives rights to others in society, while denying the same to themselves. They affirm that they will bear true faith and allegiance to it, and that they will obey the orders of the president and those of the officers appointed over them. Officers go a step further, swearing that they accept this obligation without mental reservation or purpose of evasion."
But he said nothing in the Constitution, nor any action of Congress to date, "Gives any citizen the right to serve."
He explained the military has the authority to reject applicants for age, physical or mental conditions, education, drug use, weight and other reasons.
And he noted the law for years actually has excluded from eligibility to serve those who exhibit "a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts" and the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy already was an allowance for those with such lifestyle choices who would promise not to make a public spectacle.
He said the reason for military operations should not be "social reform" but "military effectiveness."
WND previously has reported that the military "study" that purported to show many members of the military comfortable with serving alongside those with openly homosexual behavior was suspect, at best, because of failures in its protocols.
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