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| Gen. Peter Pace Calls Homosexuality Immoral |
| WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday he considers homosexuality to be immoral and the military should not condone it by allowing gay personnel to serve openly, the Chicago Tribune reported. Marine Gen. Peter Pace likened homosexuality to adultery, which he said was also immoral, the newspaper reported on its Web site. "I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way," Pace told the newspaper in a wide-ranging interview. Pace, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a 1967 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, said he based his views on his upbringing. He said he supports the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell policy" in which gay men and women are allowed in the military as long as they keep their sexual orientation private. The policy, signed into law by President Clinton in 1994, prohibits commanders from asking about a person's sexual orientation. "I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts," Pace said. The newspaper said Pace did not address concerns raised by a 2005 government audit that showed some 10,000 troops, including more than 50 specialists in Arabic, have been discharged because of the policy. With Democrats in charge of Congress, Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., has introduced legislation to reverse the military's ban on openly serving homosexuals |
| My Opinion |
| First of all, i would like to say that this article absolutly makes me sick to my stomach. General Pace is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and so his judgement is very influential. Because of this, his judgement should be based on what is best for the country, not on his own personal beliefs. He is free to his opinions, which is one the great things about this country. However, he should not be making decisions about something as important as the United States military based on his individual feelings on a subject like homosexuality. He is entitled to keep his feelings, but he should keep them as his private buisness, and should not be allowing them to interfere with his decisions on what is best for the United States. Now, to be honest, any article which I read that involves someone talking about how homosexuals should not be able to (blank) makes me very upset. It makes me sick how so many people in the world today treat homosexuals like they are second class citizens, not deserving of the same rights and liberties that heterosexual people are entitled to. Let me make this perfectly clear: homosexual people are human beings, and citizens of the United States. Therefore, they are deserving of the exact same rights and privaleges that everyone else is. For example, if Bob and Kelly are US citizens, they can be married anywhere they want to be. So why is it that Jim and Greg can't be married anywhere they want if they are US citizens? The answer: bigots like General Pace. |
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