I feel like I could have typed that headline fifty times in the past year, but whatever. He’s at it again:
Barack Obama is opposed to the draft as a matter of principle, to be sure. So are most politicians in both parties. But the president’s drive to repeal the ban on open homosexuality in the military could have this unintended consequence: It could bring back the draft.
…The military is not a red state/blue state institution. It unifies our country. It draws its dedicated members from all regions. Still, it is no secret that the military is a socially conservative institution. It recruits heavily from rural areas in the South, the Midwest, and the Inter-Mountain states.
In our larger cities, black and Hispanic recruits are encouraged to consider the military – which has historically been a great ladder of achievement for racial and ethnic minorities.
These are the very areas and groups who have been most resistant to the demands of the homosexual lobby. These are the very regions and groups who have rallied to our side whenever we put a defense of marriage initiative on the ballot
If these regions and groups do not enlist in our all-volunteer force, President Obama will be driven to the place he does not want to go: the military draft.
As Pam Spaulding said, this is desperation talking. They know they’re losing this one. There is no evidence that the majority of the military is made up of knuckle-dragging self-loathing fey bigots like Tony Perkins; indeed all the evidence points to the military’s reaction to openly gay people serving as a sort of collective “Meh.” But oh, no, in Tony’s world, those poor black and hispanic people who join the military, those poor blacks and hispanics Tony was sooooo concerned about when he bought David Duke’s mailing list, won’t somebody think of the blacks?!
What a pig.
