General Peter Pace has said
"I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts,"
No one is asking you to condone it, General, they're telling you one's sexual orientation is immaterial to one's ability to serve one's country.
Here's what the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network had to say in response
"General Pace's comments are outrageous, insensitive and disrespectful to the 65,000 lesbian and gay troops now serving in our armed forces"
So, what to do?
I suggest that the 65,000+ members of the military who are gay take General Pace at his word, and tell, because we wouldn't want to have any immorality in our armed services, right? Heck, let's have everybody who isn't totally moral speak up.
Let's see how far that surge goes when the military is depleted of all those immoral gays, who are fighting and dying for us right now. Let's see how prepared our armed forces are for any actions, whether Iraq or anywhere else, if we rid our services of all immorality.
Heaven forfend that a gay person should protect us, right?
Louis Vizcaino, spokesman for the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, got it right:
said Pace's comments were "insulting and offensive to the men and women ... who are serving in the military honorably."
And, for a dose of hypocrisy, read this:
Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University who was instrumental in helping the Pentagon craft the "don't ask, don't tell" law, said it is unusual for a top commander to use morality as a justification for the policy. But he said he has repeatedly heard enlisted members use that reasoning when opposing gays in the military.
Hmmm, morality is only important when discussing gays?