An Army of 1 in 10

I know it’s been a long time since my last post, but being deployed to Iraq limited my time and opportunities to post to Unsilence.  I left Iraq last week and I’m getting settled back in.  I’ll be leaving on a wonderful trip to the southern hemisphere in a few weeks, so expect some more delays in my posting.

Today also happens to be bittersweet for me.  I am fairly conservative and am a registered Republican.  I disliked both candidates that were running for President and I would have been dissatisfied with the result no matter who won.  However, I did state in an earlier post some time ago that this election I would support the candidate who would best bring about the abolishment of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

That candidate has won.  While I worry about what his liberal policies will do to this country, I don’t think that they could possibly make things any worse than they are right now with the economic crisis.  I look forward to the day when I can serve openly without fear of losing my job.  Hopefully, that day is not far off.

To the President-Elect, I congratulate you on your victory and the fulfillment of Dr. King’s dream.  I pray that you will work to allow me to serve this great country of ours without fear of losing my job due to my being gay.

Yep, it’s true:  atheists in Texas are constitutionally barred from holding public office.

Discuss.

From Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton:

I disagree with General Pace completely.  I don’t think homosexuality is immoral.’

The current military policy of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell” isn’t working.  Let’s not be eliminating people because of who they are or who they love.

So DADT isn’t working, Mrs. Clinton?  Wow, that’s news to me.  I wonder who was responsible for DADT’s becoming law in the first place…

As I’ve already stated in an earlier post, I will not be supporting candidates this election cycle who do not give their explicit and unwavering support for the repeal of 10 U.S.C. 654 (”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”). Now, while I was already planning on not supporting Sen. McCain due to his role in the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold Act, he’s lost any hope of having any support coming from my direction.

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Today is the day that Congressman Martin Meehan re-introduced the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, and he’s promising to hold hearings on it as early as April. Last month, several high-ranking officials spoke out against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and called for its repeal.

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