Posted by
Mike on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:29:25 PM
Today O'Reilly tried to cover up his position on allowing homosexual
acts in the military and the comments on this subject by General
Pace. In response to a viewer's email, O'Reilly stated that
General Pace's later clarification proves that O'Reilly was right in
his denouncement of the first set of comments in which the General said
that homosexual acts are immoral according to what he learned in his
upbringing, and that immorality should not be allowed in the military,
whether it be in the form of homosexual acts or in the form of adultery
with another serviceperson's husband or wife. O'Reilly's
untenable and riduculous position is that those in command of the
military have no business basing their policy decisions on morality,
and that it is wrong for them to advocate for or against policy
decisions in the military based on morality. This is sheer
nonsense and O'Reilly knows it. The reason why homosexual acts
and adultery are harmful and detrimental to persons in the military is
because all immoral acts are harmful and detrimental to someone
somewhere, and in the military context, immorality if condoned by those
in command has a devastating effect on morale. It is better to
prohibit certain types of behavior in the military simply on the basis
that these forms of activity are immoral rather than on some other
basis which is always open to interpretation. We have all seen
the gradual process of erroding our military's fighting capability by
those who want to see America weak for their own perverse reasons,
usually because they want to increase their own status through their
disloyality. O'Reilly actually wants a weak America so that he
can look more important. He claims to be opposed to secularism
but his actions speak otherwise.