An apology for Sodom

"If God doesn't soon bring judgment upon America, He'll have to go back and apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah!"

Ruth Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham

Gays in the military is currently being discussed in congress and Barack Obama is trying to make good on one of his many now highly unpopular campaign promises. Having served 4 years in the military, I can say with confidence that this is a horrendous sin. The media mavens are crying crocodile tears for Harvey Milk and as usual, it's done from a very safe distance. The media mavens will not drink from the foaming the cup of wrath upon a bloody battlefield.

We already have pregnant "soldiers" and some years back there was a "recommendation" to put maternity wards on warships. One "soldier' stepped off a warship that had been at sea for 6 months and deposited $10,000 (her "earnings" from shipboard prostitution).

Field commanders ordered married men to share a "2 man tent" with a woman. They eventually recanted co-ed tents after military wives made a great stink. Mixing men and women in the military is a bad idea and it's so painfully obvious that one wonders if we can survive as a nation.

The military is a harsh place even in time of peace. The excesses of the young find little resistance to hinder them in the barracks. Barracks and battlefields, like college fraternities are insulated from civilized society and are unfettered by the moral restraints society exerts upon the greater excesses and lusts of the young and foolish.

That said, the excesses of the barracks pale in comparison to the hardened sins on display during the routinely pornographic "Gay Pride" parades. Discretion forbids discussion of such sins and obsessions as were likely seen in Sodom on it's last day.

During my time in the military, I found that some commanders crossed ethical boundaries when it came to rightly exercising the god like power entrusted to them. King David secretly ordered the commander of his Army to place Uriah the Hittite in the thickest part of the battle. Uriah was killed and David took Uriah's wife. The power to command is the power to destroy.

Tailhook is still a blotch on military honor, and warships are now floating maternity wards, such is the result of a mixed, co-ed military. I loath even the thought of god like power exerted over our troops by those held in bondage to such darkness. What pound of flesh might a homosexual commander extract from a man he can send into battle... to his death?