LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Pee Dee shouldn't be treated to 'Don't Ask' opine

By: Dear Editor | SCNOW
Published: March 06, 2010

The “Don’t Ask” missive in the Morning News (Feb. 11) deserves some redress.

The article rightly noted that many military people opposed the policy, but “it became official policy nonetheless.”

Why? A president elected with the help of the homosexual community wanted a more intrusive stab into the standards, but “Don’t Ask” was the compromise forced on the military.

The question now is not whether this word game should be repealed; rather what will be put into its place. And given the overreaching tendencies of the current legislative and executive powers supported by a fawning media, one shudders to think of what they envision of U.S Armed Forces

The Morning News piece says, ‘“Let’s ask the brass what they think’ no longer settles the matter.’” But what does settle the matter? Opinion polls? ABC’s “Brothers and Sisters?” Gore Vidal?

A large and perhaps dwindling segment of the population will look to Scripture. Leviticus 18 clearly condemns that particular “lifestyle.” And Saint Paul is plain enough in the first chapter of his Letter to the Romans, and another reference in First Corinthians.

But Scripture is old hat to many of our “enlightened” elite that celebrates each “coming out.” And even some Christian denominations, going well beyond simple tolerance, choose to deny what is clearly scriptural.

There are some worthless comparisons of the “Don’t Ask” event with past changes, and a silly barb “an affront to the guarantee of equal protection …”

Worse, there is a sneer at the military: “If American men and women in uniform are willing to die …they can put up with homosexuals …”

So the lobby continues its assaults — Boy Scouts, the sacred institution of marriage, and now on the institution that protects our shores.

So why are we in the Pee Dee treated to this whine?
Don’t ask.

Roy Haymond
Centenary