by Patrick J. Buchanan
A Democratic Congress, discharged by the voters on Nov.
2, has as one of its last official acts, imposed its San
Francisco values on the armed forces of the United
States.
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” is to be repealed. Open
homosexuals are to be welcomed with open arms in all
branches of the armed services.
Let us hope this works out better for the Marine Corps
than it did for the Catholic Church.
Remarkable. The least
respected of American institutions, Congress, with an
approval rating of 13 percent, is imposing its cultural
and moral values on the most respected of American
institutions, the U.S. military.
Why are we undertaking this social experiment with the
finest military on earth? Does justice demand it? Was
there a national clamor for it?
No. It is being imposed from above by people, few of
whom have ever served or seen combat, but all of whom
are aware of the power of the homosexual rights lobby.
This is a political payoff, at the expense of our
military, to a militant minority inside the Democratic
Party that is demanding this as the price of that
special interest’s financial and political support.
Among the soldiers most opposed to bringing open
homosexuals into the ranks are combat veterans, who warn
that this will create grave problems of unit cohesion
and morale.
One Marine commandant after another asked Congress to
consider the issue from a single standpoint:
Will the admission of gay men into barracks at
Pendleton and Parris Island enhance the fighting
effectiveness of the Corps?
Common sense suggests that the opposite is the almost
certain result.
Can anyone believe that mixing small-town and rural
18-, 19- and 20-year-old Christian kids, aspiring
Marines, in with men sexually attracted to them is not
going to cause hellish problems?
The Marines have been sacrificed by the Democratic
Party and Barack Obama to the homosexual lobby, with the
collusion of no fewer than eight Republican senators.
This is a victory in the culture war for the new
morality of the social revolution of the 1960s and a
defeat for traditional Judeo-Christian values. For only
in secularist ideology is it an article of faith that
all sexual relations are morally equal and that to
declare homosexual acts immoral is bigotry.
But while this new morality may be orthodoxy among our
elites in the academy, media, culture and the arts,
Middle America has never signed on and still regards
homosexuality as an aberrant lifestyle, both socially
and spiritually ruinous.
To these folks, homosexuality is associated with a high
incidence of disease, HIV/AIDS, early death, cultural
decadence and civilizational decline. And no sensitivity
training at Camp Lejeune is going to change that.
Behind these traditionalist beliefs lie the primary
sources of moral authority for traditionalist America:
the Old and New Testaments, Christian doctrine, natural
law. Thomas Jefferson believed homosexuality should be
treated with the same severity as rape.
And 31 consecutive defeats for same-sex marriage in
state referenda testifies that Middle America sees the
new morality as the artificial invention of
pseudo-intellectuals to put a high gloss on a low
lifestyle.
Not until recent decades have many in America or the
West argued that homosexuality is natural and normal. As
late as 1973, the American Psychiatric Association
listed homosexuality as a mental disorder.
Today, anyone who agrees with that original APA
assessment is himself or herself said to be afflicted
with a mental disorder: homophobia.
The world has turned upside down. What was criminal
vice in the 1950s—homosexuality and abortion—is not only
constitutionally protected, but a mark of social
progress.
Yet, just as busing for racial balance led to violence,
white flight and the ruin of urban schools, this social
experiment is not going to be without consequences. And
it is the military that will endure those consequences.
Yet, again, if we believe our armed forces to be the
best in the world, why are we doing this, against the
advice of countless senior officers and NCOs? What is
the motivation other than the payoff of a campaign debt?
What happens now to Evangelical Christian and
conservative Catholic chaplains who preach that
homosexuality is a sinful and shameful practice? Will
they be severed from the service as homophobes?
That cannot be far behind when the Family Research
Council, a respected organization of religious and
social conservatives that has fought the homosexual
agenda from same-sex marriage to gay adoptions, has now
been declared by the Southern Poverty Law Center to be a
“hate group.”
The advance of what was once a radical agenda has
accelerated.
In 2004, John Kerry may have lost Ohio and the
presidency because same-sex marriage was on the ballot
in almost a dozen states, bringing out committed social
conservatives to the polls. Six years later, the gay
rights agenda is imposed by Congress and Obama on the
82nd and 101st.
Let the reader decide if the direction America is
headed in is toward those “sunny uplands,” or straight
downhill.
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