Peter Pace had said that, in spite of tremendous problems recruiting enough people to join the military, homosexuals should be kept out because, in his personal opinion, homosexuality is immoral. Imagine that: Peter Pace does not concern himself about the enormous immorality of war, but he is obssessed with the small moral issues involved in how people choose to form relationships and gain sexual pleasure. Those are twisted priorities.
Peter Pace ought to be ashamed of himself, but Barack Obama can be proud of himself for standing up against a bully. A threshold has been crossed. Finally, the time has come when national politicians are willing to stand up and denounce the persecution of homosexuality.
I'm glad to see that Barack Obama is a part of this change. Hillary Clinton has also issued a statement in which she declares her belief that homosexuality is not immoral. John Edwards has stood up to Ann Coulter's desperate attempt to grab attention by insulting gay men.
It's time for us all to get it straight. You don't have to be gay to see that it's dead wrong to persecute people who are.
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I'm just glad that the democratic candidates are standing up with thier beliefs on the subject rather than hiding behind phobic curtain.
On the other hand, Obama waited for both Edwards' and Clinton's response(which she had expressed during her husband's presidency anyway) before he spoke, so was he composing his thoughts or waiting to see what his competition was going to say?
The only latest thing about him that concerns me is when he painted such a rosy picture of a border town between Israel and Lebenon in a speech he made to
AIPAC. It seems rather "out of touch" but then maybe he was just reporting things as they actually could be without all the violence and hatred going on.