Aviator Hopes Gay Ban Will End Soon Enough for Him
Barack Obama’s campaign promise to scrap the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy gave Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach hope. Now the aviator is wondering if the president will deliver in time to save his 18-year Air Force career. The winner of nine air medals for distinguished service in flight, including one for heroism the night U.S. forces captured Baghdad International Airport in 2003, Fehrenbach is in the process of getting kicked out of the military a year after an acquaintance told his bosses he was gay. He thought he could hang on until the government eliminated the military’s policy forcing gays and lesbians to keep their sexual orientation secret, but now he isn’t so sure.
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It is time that Pr. Obama use his office as commander in chief of our military to require any disciplinary action against gay soldiers for violating DADT be sent up for review by a White House Sr. Staffer.
And unless lewd conduct or something like that was involved, the charges will automatically be dismissed.
And we need to insure that commanders whose decisions are over-ridden this way do not take other retributive getting even action against gay out soldiers. For that would violate their oath of office, and represent lying. Grounds for immediate dismissal of an officer.
And all, remember that this is all about all those good southern boys who join the military discovering, if they don’t already know it, that gay people are good people, and good soldiers. And the result is these troops will also have learned that what the church says about homosexuality is wrong.
Presto – the church loses its credibility, fewer members, less money.
And someday we’ll be mostly rid of the religious freaks.