I spent over 20 years in the military service of this country, retiring in 2002. So on Thursday, when the U.S. Senate successfully voted to approve a defense authorization bill which not only included a provision that repealed the military ban on sodomy, but also repealed the ban on having sex with animals, or bestiality, I thanked God that I served during the time that I did. On Nov. 15, the Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously approved S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision to repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Article 125 of the UCMJ makes it illegal to engage in both sodomy with humans and sex with animals. It states: "(a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense. (b) Any person found guilty of sodomy shall be punished as a court-martial may direct." The military hasn’t been so abused since the days of Carter, and to a lesser degree, "BJ" Clinton.
This vote to remove sodomy from military law should not have been a big surprise to anybody. It was something that we all should have known would be coming, and in very short order, especially after Barry "Almighty’s" repealed the policy of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell allowing for gays to openly serve in our military. And his purpose for doing so really had nothing whatsoever to do with some sense of wanting to right some wrong or any perceived indignity suffered by gays regarding their inability to openly serve. It was done because it killed two birds with one stone. It was an used as an opportunity to pander to gays while also being one more step in Barry’s plan to transform our military from a highly skilled and well-armed fighting force, into what is, instead, nothing more than some cockamamie social experiment. The entire Democrat Party, including our current Commander-in-Chief, has always had a deep-seated, and very obvious, hatred of our military. They see the military as possessing no useful purpose. It is a waste of money that could be better spent on wasteful entitlement programs designed to keep Democrat constituents happy.
Mr. Tony Perkins, who is the president of the conservative Family Research Council, said there’s a definite link between the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the most recent repeal of the sodomy law. "It’s all about using the military to advance this administration’s radical social agenda," Mr. Perkins has said in a recent interview. "Not only did they overturn Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, but they had another problem, and that is, under military law sodomy is illegal, just as adultery is illegal, so they had to remove that prohibition against sodomy." Perkins said removing the bestiality provision may have been intentional — or it may just have been "collateral damage." Mr. Perkins said removing the bestiality provision may have been intentional--or just "collateral damage" "Well, whether it was inadvertent or not, they have also taken out the provision against bestiality," he said. "So now, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), there’s nothing there to prosecute bestiality." Those in Congress, in an effort to put politics above all else, have a history of possessing very little interest in the many unintended consequences their actions bring about.
Former Army Col. Bob Maginnis has said in recent interviews that some military lawyers have indicated bestiality "could be" prosecuted under another section of the military code of justice — Article 134, for offenses against "good military order and discipline." But that is far from being a sure bet, though. "If we have a soldier who engages in sodomy with an animal — whether a government animal or a non-government animal — is it, in fact, a chargeable offense under the Uniform Code? I think that’s in question," He went on to say, "When the reader stops laughing, the reader needs to ask the question whether or not this is in the best interests of the government, in the best interests of the military and the best interests of the country? I think not." For those who have never spent anytime in the military, there is no point of reference regarding the amount of time spent in very close quarters or the lack of any privacy experienced the majority of the time, from open bay barracks or community showers. Therefore, they should have no opinion regarding this matter because they simply don’t know what they’re talking about.
While the bill was passed in the Senate by a margin of 93-7, with 3 Republicans, 3 Democrats and 1 Independent voting against it for various reasons, it will now head on to a conference committee to be reconciled with the House of Representatives’ version of the bill. According to Mr. Perkins, the House version reinforced the Defense of Marriage Act, saying that there is a military Defense of Marriage Act as well, prohibiting same-sex marriage on military bases. "And now this is an added concern, that sodomy has been removed, and as we have discovered, that bestiality — the prohibition against it — has been removed from the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So yes, the House will have problems with this bill," Perkins predicted. And rightly so, it should have problems with this horrendous piece of Democrat inspired legislation. It is imperative that we put the brakes on this thing, if for no other reason than to provide to those who chose to serve some level proof that we have no desire to make their jobs any more difficult by turning them into some sort of guinea pigs part of some twisted Democrat social engineering project.
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