General Pace’s comments on homosexuals shows off how deeply fractured conservative movement has become
When General Peter Pace came out of the closet and shyly admitted that, yes, in fact he does think homosexuals are immoral, a good number of blogs came forward asking for his resignation. While your opinion may vary, a couple responses from conservatives showed off just how fractured the GOP has become.
Is the conservative position that Pace is a good Christian and a vast homospiracy is out to destroy him:
Cliff Kincaid: Media Homosexuals Target General Peter Pace
Is it any surprise that the media have made the Pace comments on homosexuality into a national controversy, even scandal? The national media and the homosexual rights movement seem to be one and the same. But that’s a story that news consumers aren’t being told.
Leading the charge, the Post found Pace guilty of making “public expressions of intolerance.” The subheadline of the editorial was, “Gen. Peter Pace denounces gays and lesbians who are busy defending their country.” But he said nothing of the kind, and the paper knows it. The deceitful editorial is another attempt to intimidate people into not expressing opinions that contradict the politically correct views of the radical left.
Or is the conservative opinion that Pace just insulted troops, should keep his opinions to himself and quit:
I believe U.S. Joint Chief of Staffs Peter Pace should resign his chairmanship over comments he made to the Chicago Tribune concerning homosexuals and then refusing to apologize for them. He declared homosexuality immoral and likened it to adultery (as if they were mutually exclusive). Although he did express support for the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy established by Bill Clinton in 1994 he said, “I do not believe the U.S. is well served by a policy that says it is O.K. to be immoral in any way.” I believe Pace should resign because he is demeaning our troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere who happen to be gay or lesbian and are doing nothing more than their duty. Unless Pace can specifically demonstrate an instance where the U.S. has not been well served by the policy or that it has somehow compromised national security he ought to have simply said he supported the policy and left it at that. His job is to advise the President and the Secretary of Defense, not to state his opinion on public policy. Since he will not apologize for this transgression, he ought to do the honorable thing and resign.
It’s truly a mystery what a good, honest conservative really believes these days. At very least, they can all rally around the one truly shared platform of the conservative movement - that black people are inferior.
–WKW