Opinion: 'Don't Ask/Don't Tell' Repeal is Not a 'Civil Rights' Breakthrough
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The strategic activists committed to the homosexual equivalency movement seek to enforce a societal acceptance of homosexual, bi-sexual and lesbian sexual relationships as morally equivalent to opposite sex marriage.They have succeeded on one more front in their agenda.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
12/22/2010 (1 decade ago)
Published in Politics & Policy
Keywords: Homosexual agenda, gay agenda, don't ask don't tell, human rights campaign, US Military, Keith Fournier, DADT
P>WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Online) - On Saturday, December 18, 2019, the United States Senate voted 65-31 to pass legislation lifting the current policy in the United States Military referred to as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". On December 22, 2010, the President signed it in a White House Ceremony.
Under that policy, implemented in 1993 during the Clinton administration, those with homosexual, lesbian or bi-sexual sexual desires were allowed to serve in the U.S. military but asked to keep those sexual proclivities and desires private.That is what the name of the policy referred to.
Since the implementation of the policy 13,500 members of the service have been dismissed for openly expressing those sexual desires or acting upon those sexual desires by engaging in homosexual practices. That is what the policy prohibited.
In what is presented as a "civil rights" breakthrough, service men and women with same sex attraction will soon be able to openly declare that acting on those sexual desires identifies who they are as persons. In addition, everybody in the military service must accept it and welcome it. They will also be able to openly express those desires in the pattern of their lives as members of the armed forces. Of course, there will be some limits as there are on heterosexual sexual practices.
The strategic activists committed to the homosexual equivalency movement - which seeks to enforce a societal acceptance of homosexual, bi-sexual and lesbian sexual relationships as morally equivalent to opposite sex marriage - have succeeded on one more front in their agenda.
Stealing the language of the civil rights movement, they have succeeded in making a flawed comparison between racial discrimination and homosexual sexual acts; even though it is a comparison without merit. Membership in a racial category is a status; homosexual sexual practices are voluntary sexual actions.
Discrimination on the basis of race or gender is intrinsically evil and unjust. However, asking those who have sexual desires toward members of the same sex to use propriety while they are serving in the military and living within same sex barracks, is common sense.
Of course, no human person should be subject to discrimination. That includes persons with homosexual desires or orientation. However, that is because they are persons, not because of how they want to act on their sexual desires with persons of the same sex.
Now, right before Christmas, President Obama will sign this legislation with much fanfare. It will be hailed as some sort of great advance. However, it is simply one more step in the march of the homosexual equivalency agenda.
The leaders of the homosexual equivalency movement are ecstatic. They know what comes next. Included among them are able lawyers whose efforts are well funded. These folks are activists committed to what they actually believe is a better future; a future where homosexual sexual practices are considered morally equivalent to the sexual expression of marital love between a man and a women. A future where the positive law of the nation will force us all to call to be a marriage what can never be a marriage - or face the police power of the State.
The president of the 'public interest' group which is at the forefront of the homosexual equivalency movement, the Human Rights campaign, spoke out immediately after the Senate vote. Joe Solomese proclaimed "this has been a long-fought battle, but this failed and discriminatory law will now be history". They are clear about their goal in their motto "working for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender equal rights".
In the brave new world of their making there are no givens, including being male or female. "Gender" will soon be "chosen" and there will be a legal "right" to that choice. The Human Rights campaign calls this "gender identity and expression". They also call it a "right" and insist everyone recognize it. That is what "transgender rights" is all about.
No-one with any moral foundation who accepts the existence of fundamental human rights supports discrimination against any human persons, including those with same sex attraction. That is not what is at issue here. What the passage of this legislation really presages is a cultural revolution.
What is the next stop on the homosexual equivalency agenda? There will be an insistence on access to military benefits for all homosexual, lesbian or bi-sexual sexual partners. The argument will be based on the Constitution's equal protection clause.
This argument is now being used in States which passed "civil union" legislation. The activists are also advancing this legal theory in the United Kingdom. I wrote about it last month in an article entitled "Segregation According to Sexuality? Legal Strategy to Force Homosexual 'Marriage"
Opposition to the homosexual equivalency agenda is not about discrimination against anybody, including homosexual persons. Homosexual Equivalency activists want a cultural revolution. They insist that we recognize a moral and legal equivalency between true marriages and cohabitating practicing homosexuals or face legal punitive consequences.
Equating how one engages in non-marital sexual acts with a member of the same sex to being a member of a particular race or gender - thereby making practicing homosexuals a "protected class" for civil rights purposes - is legally and socially dangerous. One is a status; the other involves a behavior and a lifestyle.
The repeal of Don't Ask/Don't Tell' Repeal is not a 'Civil Rights' breakthrough - and turning the United States military into a new a front for social and cultural experimentation is not in the public interest.
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