{"id":32561,"date":"2012-10-25T09:48:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32561"},"modified":"2012-10-25T09:48:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:48:45","slug":"the-camels-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32561","title":{"rendered":"The camel’s nose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I get in trouble every time I write about this, I’ll do it again. It seems that there’s a new executive director of OutServe-SLDN, the lead lobbying group for the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and he\/she says the battle isn’t over yet. From Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a tremendous amount of inequality still,\u201d said [Allyson] Robinson, a 1994 West Point graduate and longtime rights advocate. \u201cWe have (the Defense of Marriage Act). We have families of military gays and lesbians not able to access basic support and benefits. The reason we\u2019re still fighting on these issues, even after repeal, is because we have not yet achieved our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Robinson, who commanded Patriot missile units in Germany and Saudi Arabia during the 1990s, served five years in the Army and lived for 30 years as a man before transitioning to a transgender woman. She also worked as a Christian minister, and admits that her personal life has confused and alienated some colleagues.<\/p>\n

While gay and lesbian troops can now serve openly in the military without fear of dismissal, transgender individuals — troops with \u201cgender identity disorder,\u201d under Defense Department regulations — are still banned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, we were told before the repeal that Don’t Ask, Don’t tell was standing in the way of gays serving their country, because that was all they wanted to do, but they couldn’t honestly because they had to hide their gayness. OK, so now that particular barrier to service has been removed,, the bar for the rest of us has been moved. It’s not about selfless service at all but, it’s about benefits. So instead of being honest in the first place, the Gay movement is just changing the definition of selfless service to mean selfish service. Not, what can I do for my country, but rather what can the government give me.<\/p>\n

Like most Americans, I wasn’t opposed to gays serving openly in the military, but I suspected that there was a wider agenda at work here. It’s not about service at all but rather about encoding acceptance of a deviant lifestyle in our system of laws. But, it’s like the Iraq Veterans Against the War turning suddenly on the war in Afghanistan after the war in Iraq was ended – no the gay organizations have to shift their fire to another goal so they can continue to survive even though their initial goal has been reached.<\/p>\n

Maybe accepting gays in the military hasn’t disrupted the good order and discipline like many expected, but who can deny with a straight face that accepting trans-gendered people into the military wouldn’t have an adverse effect? The myriad adjustments to the physical presence of transgendered people would be just the tip of the iceberg. And who wants to sit through the resulting power point presentation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I get in trouble every time I write about this, I’ll do it again. It … The camel’s nose<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}