The Persecution Accelerates

Whatever the hazards to esprit de corps and unit cohesion when you have to wonder if the guy in the next bunk might want to take you snorkling, the biggest danger of repealing DADT is that it will not be the end of this issue, but just the beginning.  No, the end will be the total politicization of what's left of the military, and the persecution of conservatives in general, and evangelical Christians in particular, right out of it.

-Me, May 28th, 2010

Lieutenant-General Thomas P. Bostick, reported in the Washington Times yesterday:

Bostick, the Army’s deputy chief of staff in charge of personnel matters … spoke about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” before several hundred troops at the European Command headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. “Unfortunately, we have a minority of service members who are still racists and bigoted and you will never be able to get rid of all of them,” Lieutenant-General Bostick said. “But these people opposing this new policy [i.e. TABOO (Tell And Bend On Over)] will need to get with the program, and if they can’t, they need to get out. No matter how much training and education of those in opposition, you’re always going to have those that oppose this on moral and religious grounds just like you still have racists today.”

As Commander Dyer has repeatedly pointed out:

Tolerance is what the military has today.  Enforced intolerance – not just of religious belief, but of resistance to endorsing gay behavior for other reasons (e.g., what you may not want your kids to see at the Post Exchange) – is what the military will come up with.  The military operates affirmatively: what it acknowledges, it has a policy on.  Deviations from policy are not authorized.

And the Lavender Lobby knows it - indeed, they're counting on it.  It's the, um, back door through which they plan to take down traditional marriage and drive Judeo-Christianity not just out of the public square, but outlaw it altogether.

General Bostik denies he said the above quote, but Washington Times editorial page editor Brett Decker stands by it, saying it was confirmed by "multiple sources" whose names were not released for (drumroll please) fear of retribution.  Personally, I believe the Times over Bostik, not because I think, or want to think, that the latter is a liar, but because that's the direction this issue is headed, and officers like Bostik will be unable, short of quitting, to escape being its studded-leather, Crisco-bearing enforcers.

Still don't think so?  They're already burning Bibles.  How big a step is it to dishonorable discharge based on refusal to renounce Jesus Christ and embrace what the Scriptures condemn, really?

And it isn't limited to the U.S. military:

Remember why we sent our troops over to the Middle East?  To fight the enemy over there so they couldn't attack us over here?  This kinda makes that resistance seem awfully....futile, does it not?

But at least there's lots of bending over at Muslim prayer time.  That should make "the New Army" feel right at home.