don't ask don't tell their is a lot of stuff going on in response to our
interview with paul cameron last weekend when i say a lot i'm mean
a lot and we'll get to that at the end the show incredible comments from both
sides in the video going somewhat viral on the web and they're still more news
coming as a result of the don't ask don't tell repeal request
that we heard from brocco bomber at the state of the union address
while discussing don't ask don't tell with the family research council's peter
sprig
and the service members legal defense networks are reading this chris matthews
got peter spread to admit
just house extreme his views are unclear ites essentially saying
the roman president
why is it every time i see one of these ente homosexual people that they are
saying
there they're saying things that are making
other people's gaidar go off and this is something we heard with paul can learn a
lot of people saying this guy seems like a latent homosexual
same comments about the family research council spit peter spread i'll play this
for you and you can judge for yourself
it's strange to stop the saying that that's our share
what i hear you saying is that you believe
gays and lesbians
should not serve their country in the uniform whatsoever that's absolutely not
only are you opposed to repealing don't ask don't tell you would prohibit all
gays and lesbians from serving their country
that runs out of my land line until wars and we need every qualified trooper to
be out there
the percentage of people that the number with me
refused to serve in the military if they are forced to serve with open
homosexuals with dwarf the number of homosexual alleges that contact photos
that military times poll which showed that ten percent of currently serving
military would consider and not realist and if it's a and as a result artfully
leaders of the military times well i think you may have a big views
amelioration of let me ask you uh... peter giving people choose to be getting
people do not choose to have same sex attractions but they do choose to engage
in homosexual conduct
and that's conduct also which incidentally is against the wall within
the military it violates the uniform code of military justice it doesn't make
any sense for us to be actively recruiting people we're going to violate
the uniform code of military justice
dealing with child log a behavior
well i think certainly just initially outlaw gay behavior i think that those
supreme court decision were sweet axis which overturned
at the side of the laws in this country was wrongly decided i think there would
be a place for criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior
so we should outlaw gay behavior
uh... yes
okay thank you very much happier for you know your position
incredible is that where did these people come from how can you be so
consumed
to mentor to women want to do that you your thinking that
dat havier should be outlawed
what exist
forget about the fact that it's it's a bizarre
fashioned in archaic position to have why then waste your time with this type
of stuff
just what people do what they want to do it's not bothering you in any way is it
i mean maybe they would argue it is
we've had guest you know i think we've asked
we've asked this of people before on our show
and remember where they said i think it was something like well you know reality
just won't let them write this is a dazzling life is what we need to you
know spread gods messaging you know this is an evil thing
will other people thinking that those who most loudly denounced homosexuality
maybe homosexuals themselves in this plenty of instances on the right let me
be clear i am not gay
five never happen again an end
we know that that's not always the case
an
what else is going on the don't ask don't tell tony perkins if you have
never heard tony perkins speak
you shit
he's from the family research council
and
this really needs no
introduction or explanation i'll just play for you make of it what you will
the country
but a question of whether not they have a desire to serve nor is it it they
question whether they cancer they they certainly can serve
in the military today it's a question of
good behavior of those who identify themselves as homosexual
aka question what larry has been in a race is what has changed since nineteen
ninety three when this policy was implemented by the clinton
administration we had fourteen congressional hearing simpson all coming
to the same conclusion that this would undermine unit cohesion in military
readiness and so even even if the democratic chairman of the house armed
services committee ike skelton says he's opposed to changing this policy
there's members of the joint chiefs
change that are opposed to being to changing this policy so it's not a
foregone conclusion that this is going to be changed
what is the fear that the game person will come on with this trade person or
the straight person will be embarrassed to take it
what's with the air
well i think we've seen the same thing when we we've we've had to be very
careful how we interpret the sexes in the military
and i think a lot of people don't understand deliver the present company
accepted here but the military's a different environment there's very few
occasions where you're living in the same room in showering with eighty men
you know i haven't been in a list of membrane court there is no privacy
officers have a little more privacy than enlisted men
so tony perkins literally
going completely off with
a litany of unrelated non sequiturs related to why he's scared
of gay guys in the military and that's really the only explanation there is for
tony perkins it
i can't think of any of any other explanation for why he saying
what he's saying and we know about the conspiracy
now the conspiracy but
the the thoughts of just the disaster that there would be in there can't
possibly be anybody
in the military who is gay and is doing a good job though that the comment that
the comment that they could have planted
dat
police had a role in the audience
now we're just playing the clips of course if people who
don't want this repealed
you know oppose gays in military whatever right but generally speaking is
in the amount of support to repeal this
like overwhelming
at another disaster mulroney it's their depends obviously will pull your talking
about and and what numbers you see
when in the state of the union address
we saw essentially the entire room
stand when barackobama asked
and said he would ask more formally for the repeal of don't ask don't tell and
based on that you would think
it would've been really easy but now we need and we will talk to barney frank
about this later
we need
but here to study it
we need to figure out how many homophobe would quit the military if this were
repealed so on and so forth it's it's not going to be that simple even though
like i said it seemed like everybody basically stood up at the state of the
union
i don't know
i don't know yet what the official if if there is such a
scientific poll on this with the official standing of it is amongst the
general population
turnover margin
within the not-too-distant future don't ask don't tell will
be repealed you i would assume so
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