Integrity
Feb 8th, 2010 • Posted in: What They're Saying“No matter how I look at the issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.”
– U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, speaking last week to the Senate Armed Services Committee and urging the repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy barring gay military personnel from serving openly.
Mullen and Defense secretary Robert Gates both said the 1993 policy should be repealed, a view supported by President Obama but opposed by critics like Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who says the move would strain the military.
Wikipedia notes that “of the 26 countries that participate militarily in NATO, more than 22 permit gay people to serve; of the permanent members of the UN Security Council, two (Britain, France) permit gay people to serve openly, and three (United States, Russia, China) do not.”
Source: New York Times, Feb. 3.
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Don;t ask don’t tell should apply to all. Gays have an innate physiological problem and think they are being unfairly discriminated, yet all the heterosexuals rarely, if ever, discuss their sexual identity, Let the military adopt an offical Asexual policy. Essentially, bachelors.
Admiral Mullen spoke of great concern on a gay lying as to his identity and loss of his integrity in doing so.. My question is ; who asked? and when he lied ,how could Admiral Mullen find out that he lied and lost his integrity? I must conclude that both the highest ranks and the lower ranks violated their own policy Off hand I think the gay should be checked out for paranoia,unable to control himself and likely to be a threat if under stress.