What do we make of
this interesting statistic?
"... a Military Times poll in December 2008 found that 58 percent of U.S. troops do not want gays to serve openly in the armed forces. Ten percent of respondents said they would leave the armed forces if the ban were lifted and 14 percent said they would consider doing so."
What makes this interesting is the disconnect between what the majority of troops and the top brass. Here's
Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff:
"Speaking for myself, and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.
No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens. For me, personally, it comes down to integrity, theirs as individuals and ours as an institution."
So if you're opposed to ending DADT, you lack integrity. Got that?
And now comes news that
General Colin Powell also supports ending DADT.
Senator Roland Burris of Michigan, who is black, claimed ending DADT is just the latest front in the never-ever-ever ending battle for Civil Rights, and
invoked that holy name in his comments before the Senate panel:
What we need is a policy that allows any individual who has the integrity and the commitment to serve this country to serve this country. And we can go back to President Truman, who took the audacity to integrate the services. At one time, my uncles and members of my race couldn't even serve in the military. And we have moved to this point where they're some of the best and brightest that we have had.
Here's the kicker: Both the top brass in the military and the Civil Rights movement side together against their own rank and file. The
NAACP's top dogs, however, have had greater difficulty in convincing their own membership.
Most African-Americans are profoundly religious, and oppose the homosexual agenda. One homosexual activist,
Andrew Sullivan, has lamented this before: "There is, alas, no ethnic community as homophobic in America as African-Americans." (Opposition to mainstreaming deviancy reveals an irrational fear, you see.)
What's going on here is simple: You get to top positions in the military and Civil Rights elite by pleasing the powers that be, not by representing the rank and file. Civil Rights is a holy word used to sanctify
the expansion of Federal power, so the Civil Rights industry is a major player within the ruling elite, just as much as the military.
The globalists who run this country expand and consolidate their control by
uprooting traditional Western, Christian culture. So naturally they've made the "Gay rights" agenda their own, and anyone wanting to join the ranks of the ruling elite has to play their game.
Hence the disconnect between constituency and leaders.