Posted by
Billy on Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:26:55 AM
A national defense analyst and Pentagon advisor is concerned about the recent
efforts by the Obama administration regarding the president's desire to repeal
the 1993 law banning homosexuals from military service.
Following an appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense
Secretary Robert Gates announced Tuesday that he is launching a landmark study
on how the military would lift its ban on homosexual service members. At the
same hearing Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said
lifting the ban is "the right thing to do." (Military ban - repeal a forgone
conclusion? )
Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis (USA-Ret.) was part of the military working group that
helped craft Section 654, Title 10, the 1993 law which strictly prohibits
homosexuals from serving in the military. He is concerned about Mullen's
statement and the president's call to repeal the law.
"They believe that
this is the right thing to do...to repeal the law. Now as Senator [John] McCain
said, this is repeal by fiat. They've already reached their conclusion, and
they're proceeding with that," Maginnis explains. "But of course it's the
Congress that has to, with a majority in both houses, repeal the law."
(This law should not be repealed for the sake of the nation and those who are defending us. If changes are made in this law it will not help the best military in the world. Those who want to do this need to start putting our nation first and forget their own agendas.)