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2010-10-19 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-10-19 17:36|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Best headline of the month!

Posted by Steve White 2010-10-19 18:44|| 2010-10-19 18:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Article I, Section 8;
Section 8 - Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power..
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

The Law is Title X USC. TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART II > CHAPTER 37 > § 654

Note well -
(a) Findings. Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Section 8 of article I of the Constitution of the United States commits exclusively to the Congress the powers to raise and support armies, provide and maintain a Navy, and make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.
(2) There is no constitutional right to serve in the armed forces.
(3) Pursuant to the powers conferred by section 8 of article I of the Constitution of the United States, it lies within the discretion of the Congress to establish qualifications for and conditions of service in the armed forces.

Your judiciary has voided that Constitution, has struck down the separation of powers, and has declared itself the ultimate unaccountable power in the country. With the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to achieve Constitutional passage the judiciary has now decided to overrule the entire amendment process and impose its will over what remains of a republic. They've burnt the village in order to save it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-10-19 18:58|| 2010-10-19 18:58|| Front Page Top

#3 P2K, you should know better by now that activist judges will not let something as silly as the constitution keep them from imposing their will upon us peasants!

Posted by DarthVader 2010-10-19 19:05|| 2010-10-19 19:05|| Front Page Top

#4 to enforce that you would need a spineless, empty-suit, bowing and scraping POTUS, and a political DOJ with an unscrupulous AG and a leadership of lefty political hacks.....oh...wait

Posted by Frank G 2010-10-19 19:07|| 2010-10-19 19:07|| Front Page Top

#5 As a gay patriot, I'd like to say that I agree with all the previous comments. And now - in order to cement my ties to the 'self-hating gay community' - something completely different:

Posted by ryuge 2010-10-19 19:21|| 2010-10-19 19:21|| Front Page Top

#6 ryuge, I believe that you are a gay patriot, and not the one this blanket ban is intended for. See: Bawney Fwank and his heckling boyfwend. These are the activists who would put their gay identity over their unit prepardeness, their duty to Country, and their duty to the uniform and honor they swore on behalf of the nation. This is in behalf of drama queens and gay activism, not their service in the military. I have no doubt many gays served honorably and quietly. If you want to see the end result of this action, check out the gay pride parades in any major city. If I were gay, I'd be f'n embarrassed

Posted by Frank G 2010-10-19 22:41|| 2010-10-19 22:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, I agree, Frank. I think that the activists and the judges who don't allow the normal political processes to take place are very much the problem. Don't Ask, Don't Tell was a reasonable attempt at a compromise of a very difficult problem. Being in the military involves many sacrifices, and I don't think that keeping your sex life to yourself is necessarily the greatest sacrifice one would have to make. If that's too difficult for you, then the military is not the right place for you to be. To say that it's 'not fair' misses the point that without what the miliatry does, there would be no justice of any kind for anyone in our civilization. If, in the future, there are changes to be made to the policy, they should be made by our normal Constitutional political procedures, not by some judge trying to 'make life fair' without knowing what the consequences will be.

In addition, I like having an excuse to post an old favorite Monty Python sketch. :-)

Posted by ryuge 2010-10-19 23:40|| 2010-10-19 23:40|| Front Page Top

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