By: Makikijoe | June 15, 2010 at 4:54 pm

Mr. Perkins is wrong on so many points that I do not know where to begin.

But please let me address just three things that he said.

He claims that the people who want to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell are tryng to advance a “radical social agenda”. Since when is equality and fairness a “radical” idea. I guess in earlier centuries the idea of allowing women to vote (much less run for office) was a “radical” idea. The idea of freeing millions of African Americans from the centuries of slavery was a “radical” idea” to many people in 1860. No doubt social conservative of that era were opposed to ending that.

Secondly, Mr Perkins falsely claimed that ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell would be “forcing the military to embrace homosexuality”. This is not true. The military need not be “embracing” any sexuality, straight or gay. It should respect the privacy of adults and should be in the vanguard of insuring that all soldiers, gay or staright, have equal benefits. A gay soldier should not have to fear being honest about who he loves. That has nothing to do with his ability to fight. Several retired generals have publicly supported repealing the ban on gays in the military.

Mr. Perkins also claims that, “ultimately, the military itself will become a casualty”. That is simply not so. All of our NATO allies except Turkey have allowed gays to serve openly. No major disruptions have been reported.

By: JStewart | December 4, 2010 at 8:56 am

It is my prayer that dont ask dont tell remain as is simply because…homosexuality and bisexuality are choices…behavioral choices much like murder, rape, incest, robbery, adultery, and whole host of deviant behaviors… Just because you have aright to choose your behavior does not make the actual behavior right or beneficial to society. As a believer in Christ…I must protest the lifting or repealing of that law. No person chooses thier race or gender thus i would protest if it were an issue of race or gender. Even Jesus the Christ…prevented a woman caught in adultery from being stoned by allowing her to ‘go and sin no more’…Especially since Jewish law required that both the woman and the man were to be stoned…Jesus is the first woman’s rights advocate I know of in history…and he was of Jewish birth. This law is a moral issue for me and this nation..was founded on Judeo-Christian principles…we need not deviate from them just to appease the current homosexuality supporting climate which it is my prayer is changing because to support that behavior is then to say ok…let’s have open rape, incest, adultery, fornication, robbery, murder embezzlement, drug running, gang banging…etc…etc… it would then be an anarchistic society…beneficial to no one. THere has to be some plumb line…some basis for a moral society…every civilization that ever thrived is based on the Holy Bible in some way or form. This country still need God today. Secular humanism alone is not God. Even Albert Einstein knew and recognized with all his theories, etc that his gifts and talents were from God yes the same God of the Bible…the God of Abraham Isaac & Jacob. Every states man including the founding fathers knew this nation would not have able to become a republic with out God!…As in the 1700′s,1800′s 1900′s so we today still need God here in the United States of America…we are still one nation under God…whose moral and ethics are based on what God gave in his Holy Bible. Let’s not loose sight of that for some agenda that aims at glorifying wickedness calling it good…woe to any who would and pass laws to do so.