{"id":304625,"date":"2010-02-10T22:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f96\/don-t-ax-don-t-dwell-39289\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:30:15","slug":"don%c2%92t-ax-don%c2%92t-dwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/304625","title":{"rendered":"Don\u0092t Ax, Don\u0092t Dwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02.10.10 01:49 PM posted by scottspiegel<\/p>\n<p>Discouraging military service, bean counting minority group members instead of evaluating achievement, injecting irrelevant sexual undertones\u0097sound like conservative stances to me!<\/p>\n<p> As Miss Manners once wrote on sexual orientation, the important distinction these days seems to be not gays vs. straights, but people who think other people\u0092s sex lives are open for scrutiny vs. those who don\u0092t.<\/p>\n<p> A rapidly dwindling number of conservatives have been arguing that the military should preserve its ban on gays serving openly in the military.<\/p>\n<p> The U.S.\u0092s highest ranking military official, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, happens to disagree.  In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, he declared in no uncertain terms that \u0093allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.\u0094  Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the nation\u0092s other top defense official, testified alongside Mullen in support of repealing the ban.<\/p>\n<p> Just before President Obama took office, 104 retired admirals and generals had signed a statement urging the next president to overturn the ban.<\/p>\n<p> Apparently all of this wasn\u0092t good enough for Senator John McCain, who had categorically stated in 2006, \u0093The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, \u0091Senator, we ought to change the policy,\u0092 then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.\u0094  Last week McCain told Mullen and Gates that he still opposes lifting the ban.<\/p>\n<p> I can understand some conservatives\u0092 suspicion regarding overturning the ban on gays in the military, when the last president who tried to do so (Clinton) had nothing but contempt for the military and aggressively eroded its capabilities every year he was in office. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/don%E2%80%99t_ax_don%E2%80%99t_dwell\" ><b> read more &amp;raquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/don%E2%80%99t_ax_don%E2%80%99t_dwell\" >http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/d&#8230;2%80%99t_dwell<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.10.10 01:49 PM posted by scottspiegel Discouraging military service, bean counting minority group members instead of evaluating achievement, injecting irrelevant sexual undertones\u0097sound like conservative stances to me! As Miss Manners once wrote on sexual orientation, the important distinction these days seems to be not gays vs. straights, but people who think other people\u0092s sex lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}