No Pink Marines
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine General Peter Pace, has declared homosexuality to be an immoral act along with adultery, and that the U.S. military should not condone it by allowing openly gay persons to serve. He said this yesterday to a group of reporters and editors in Chicago.
Pace does support Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, but believes an open condoning of homosexuality does not well serve the United States. The sodomites have fired back declaring General Pace's comments as "outrageous, insensitive an disrespectful to the 65,000 lesbian and gay troops now serving in our armed forces." Is there really that many?
Gays, lesbians, and bisexuals make up 1.51% of the U.S. population. There are approximately 1,426,713 persons in the U.S. military. If the U.S average was transferred to the military (1.51%), there would be roughly 21,500 gays in the military. The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) has the number of military gays at 65,000 (4.55%) -- proportionally three times that of the U.S. gay population. The SLDN is likely using inflated percentages -- this is done by most gay advocacy groups. Some suggesting numbers as high as 10% of the U.S. population being gay. Those numbers are fallacious.
This doesn't mean that there aren't 65,000 gays in the military. There very well may be. It seems like a high number though when you consider how many gays are effeminate, and averse to the military, as well as those who know they'd endure harsh treatment for being openly gay. In short, most heterosexuals avoid the military, let alone homosexuals. However, the issue to Gen. Pace is not numbers, but morality. Sodomy is sinful -- plain and simple. It wouldn't matter if half the military personnel were gay. It's still immoral.
Good on ya, Gen. Pace!
Pace does support Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, but believes an open condoning of homosexuality does not well serve the United States. The sodomites have fired back declaring General Pace's comments as "outrageous, insensitive an disrespectful to the 65,000 lesbian and gay troops now serving in our armed forces." Is there really that many?
Gays, lesbians, and bisexuals make up 1.51% of the U.S. population. There are approximately 1,426,713 persons in the U.S. military. If the U.S average was transferred to the military (1.51%), there would be roughly 21,500 gays in the military. The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) has the number of military gays at 65,000 (4.55%) -- proportionally three times that of the U.S. gay population. The SLDN is likely using inflated percentages -- this is done by most gay advocacy groups. Some suggesting numbers as high as 10% of the U.S. population being gay. Those numbers are fallacious.
This doesn't mean that there aren't 65,000 gays in the military. There very well may be. It seems like a high number though when you consider how many gays are effeminate, and averse to the military, as well as those who know they'd endure harsh treatment for being openly gay. In short, most heterosexuals avoid the military, let alone homosexuals. However, the issue to Gen. Pace is not numbers, but morality. Sodomy is sinful -- plain and simple. It wouldn't matter if half the military personnel were gay. It's still immoral.
Good on ya, Gen. Pace!
