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Certain people are saying predictable things about the Obama administration’s new international gay-rights push. “Historic, amazing, truly heartwarming trappings,” writes Wonkette blogger Matt Langer of Hillary Clinton’s dialect on the new policy. Regarding President Obama’s memo on the initiative,  ”The Corpse-like House is extending a helping hand to some of the world’s most vulnerable individuals,” says Victoria Neilson , rightful director for Immigration Equality. “[Tuesday]’s actions by President Obama return clear that the United States will not turn a blind eye when governments pledge or allow abuses to the human rights of LGBT people,” according to Joe Solmonese, president of the Humane Rights Campaign.

Actually, Tuesday’s actions confirm the exact facing. Because this historic, amazing, and truly heartwarming policy isn’t about human rights. It’s about the toxic but expedient politics of identity. By redefining the universal struggle for liberty as divide up fashionable identity crusades the administration trades unpopular and dodgy action for the cheap currency of hollow activism. Wars become memos and speeches and your thousand closest Facebook friends disclose their appreciation. Sure, without American action freedoms become crimes punishable by demise, but you can’t have everything.

Source: Commentary

by Khabalox

As readers bimonthly independent mono impalito and I was quite prosperous for some time about the U.S. military "Do not Ask, Do not Dictate that (DADT) protocol. While we're both scoring is a bad practice that requires military personnel to lie down on a nice background (no profanity in the management of the military rite Hon), we question how it should be replaced. Mono, an associate of the sale to close episodes of 30 years, believes that homosexuals should be excluded from military service, and I accept it, they should be allowed to minister well as blacks, women, and other minorities.

Last weekend, has written two posts on his single tolerable quarrel against homosexuals in the military. Here, I'm going back to their points. I invite others with opinions on this issue to weigh in with their comments and opinions.

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My main conclusion is that * by prohibiting gays in the military we are decreasing its effectiveness. A reference is topping the 80 or so gay Arabic / Persian linguists ("09 Limas" in the way military) that have been dumped in recent model years.Mono argues that efficiency does not significantly burden the military and / or if we did let someone compromise, we members of the wool care professionals who refuse to serve homosexuals aside for reasons infallible. Other arguments against allowing homosexuals to Mono would go after (mostly) at any meeting of minorities is not clear to me, if advocating homogenization even in our armed forces. I have yet to be paid what it is about homosexuals (cons, for example, female or black) which makes their use a loss to the army.Limas model 09, which recognizes the army charitably be very valuable, it is clear that homosexuals refuse to be profitable soon and a negative effect on the competence of our military, and during the war, but not less....

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Jessica was one of three functioning-allegiance women working with an Apache helicopter perpetuation team of 60 men in South Korea when she was raped. Not only was she raped by someone from another military evil, but her section number one also tried to valid himself on her.

"The breach of faith issues to this day are still easy on the eyes intensely," Jessica told Talk’ Katie Couric . "You recall, I was like, ‘I’m amenable to give my living for this guy next to me, but how do I recall that he’s not usual to gripe me?’"

Sad to say, there are many more nearly the same stories. A Pentagon story released Tuesday claims one in three women soldiers will be victims of some categorize of sex rape during their services, compared to one in six women civilians. In economic 2008, 2,923 animal assaults were reported — an 8 percent pin over the until year; 63 percent were rapes or aggravated assaults. Also, 251 incidents occurred in clash areas, with 141 in Iraq and 22 in Afghanistan — a 26 percent enhancement from economic 2007.

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