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A beautiful photo of a West Point cadet escorting his boyfriend to a winter formal is making the blogosphere rounds.
The photo appears on the Facebook page of Knights Out, the West Point alumni support group for LGBT soldiers. The men in the photo were not named by the site.
"This, ladies and gentleman, is progress at an Academy in which we can be proud," the caption reads. "A member of the Academy's Spectrum group and his boyfriend at Yearling Winter Weekend last weekend."As I commented over at Retrophoebia, the blogmaster at which I owe a hat tip, this is simply revolting in a fundamental, elementary way. It makes me physically ill to see this photo, the "ick" factor is so strong.
Now that condonation of open homosexuality is the official moral position of the military--making the values of Believers completely non grata--I can no longer advise in good faith any of my children joining the armed services. Morally, the institution has cast off its moorings and has surrendered its status as a place where men can serve their country with honor. As it was, my past advice to them was ambivalent; stuff like this now tilts me into the "anti" column.
Gross. And saddening to watch something great slowly die.
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I am constantly amazed at the American trend to undermine the morality of the vast majority in order to cater to the values of the tiny minority. No matter what the topic is, the result is the same. The few dominate the many. In a republic, as our country was intended to be, the power of the government would be restrained to prevent a majority from using their dominance to abuse the minorities. But the domonant majority seems to have no protections at all.
I am OK with this little fruit and his BF going to the dance together. It is just a sign of the times. But certainly not "progress".
The real solution is more libertarian than conservative. Get the government out of the bedroom. Do not permit the government to acknowledge private relationships in any manner. For the military, end the pay structures that pay married people more than single people. End policies to allowed married people to live off post when single people must live in the barracks.
End health care for family members of military people.
Let people be free to make their own associations and to pay the full costs for those associations themselves without government intrusion.
And let private people be free to discriminate against anyone, for any reason. The Constitution exists to restrain government, not to restrain the people.
Thanks for the linkage!
West Point was the idealization of the Army, a profoundly and fundamentally masculine institution. I suspect that our future MacArthurs--if we ever get any--are less likely to attend due to the corruption of that culture by the culture of femininity/acceptance. And the crummy Army culture and lifestyle, but that's a different story.
PS. Newrebeluniv, the days of soldiers getting fraudulent gay marriages for housing-allowances and off-post benefits are nigh upon us. Just wait. Other bennies have already been approved. It's just another example of gaming the gravy-train of gov't employment.
"The real solution is more libertarian than conservative. Get the government out of the bedroom. Do not permit the government to acknowledge private relationships in any manner. For the military, end the pay structures that pay married people more than single people. End policies to allowed married people to live off post when single people must live in the barracks."
I tend to agree. If the military is going to be truly agnostic over how Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines live their moral lives, may as go whole hog and erase all those other intrusions/supports of military members' social relationships too.
Let's also do away with subsidized child care as well. Why should I, American taxpayer, subsidize the childcare of a choice mommy who isn't responsible enough to marry/stay married to a man and doesn't make enough on her own to support them?
"And let private people be free to discriminate against anyone, for any reason. The Constitution exists to restrain government, not to restrain the people."
Heh. Rand Paul tried this last year. The MSM went absolutely apoplectic.
"I suspect that our future MacArthurs--if we ever get any--are less likely to attend"
Already society's elite tend to shun military service. Too busy doing other things, I guess.
Since America is slowly bifurcating into two classes, based roughly on the marital status of one's parents, I predict that the children of married parents (the upper class) will increasingly avoid military service, while those whose parent's failed to marry or stay married (the lower class) will join for the myriad benefits it brings them...whatever those will be in the future.
Thucydides was right..."thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools".
"get the government out of the bedroom"...
Good Luck With DAT!
Good grief, in case you have not noticed, our politicians are totally perverts these days - whether they are pro-sex or anti-sex they are still perverts.
I am surprised that sex is not a taxable commodity.
Also:
"Now that condonation of open homosexuality is the official moral position of the military.."
"coronation" may be more accurate here.
If you want the government out of the bedroom, you must also agree they need to stay out of the consequences of what happens in the bedroom, or the bathroom, or wherever. That means no mandatory ultrasounds for pregnancy, and no say on abortions.
You can't have it both ways.
Wanderling. Why do I have to play by your arbitrary rules?
Not that I am defending the pro-life position. I think it is a wonderful thing that women should be able to kill their unborn black, hispanic, and homosexual children before they are born.
But seriously, you can't tell that Abortions do not happen in a bedroom? Nor are they in any way related to private relationships? And abortion clinics look and act exactly like other health delivery clinics and ought to be regulated as such?
But personally, I would be OK with just not being compelled to pay for other people's elective medical procedures (live deliveries and abortions).
Let's not feed the troll
Looks like what I saw to and from my classes today; homos walking hand in hand.
Awwwwwww, pretty soon we can have the fun of being told not to condemn them for "public" displays of affection.
Eventually, what goes around comes around; and the truth about it is going to come out. How people can say that a man is a danger at day care or grade school teaching; or a priest is a severe threat to kids. Yet when two openly gay men adopt nothing but boys and demand to become boy scout leaders these same people ask no questions?!
Ideology, popular ideology at least; is the rule of the day.
Oops. Sorry.
the only real warriors in america and the ones fighting against . . . her
USMA sounds (and looks) so very right to me, US MA truly expresses it all, certainly those two look like products of Big Mammy's madhouse
theyll be protecting your families from northern invaders soon! that should be really funny
cheers
The cadet's name is Zack Hall. He is currently outprocessing from the Academy because he is under investigation for honor - lying, cheating, or stealing. He came out to his TAC officer last year and got laughed at (the company's motto at the time was "be straight or be gone").
In practice, the military (and especially USMA) still has most of it's traditional leanings. The people in it are the same as before the repeal of DADT, and their opinions and beliefs have not much changed. Policy has not yet changed the prevailing culture in the military, though it is headed in a far more degenerate direction.
I'm surprised (but not really) that there's no commotion about lesbians at West Point, which is far more common.
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