CMR Requests Investigation of Pentagon "Leak" on Gays-in-Military Survey

According to the AP and the Washington Post, an unnamed Pentagon source has claimed that the recent Defense Department survey of 400,000 active-duty and reserve troops found that a majority would not object if they are required to accept professed homosexuals in the military following repeal of the current law. More...

MCC Leaders Request Investigation of Army General’s Remarks

Leaders of the Military Culture Coalition (MCC) have requested a formal Inspector General investigation of an incident reported by the Washington Times, in which Army Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick allegedly made intemperate remarks criticizing and threatening to exclude servicemembers who support the current law regarding homosexuals in the military. More...

No Reason to Bow to the 'Supreme Judicial Commander of the U.S. Military'

Last week the Justice Department filed an immediate appeal in a case brought by a gay activist group calling itself the Log Cabin "Republicans," requesting a stay of a bizarre worldwide injunction that California U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips issued on October 12. Judge Phillips, who seems to have appointed herself "Supreme Judicial Commander of the U.S. Military," ordered the Defense Department to stop enforcing the 1993 law stating that homosexuals are not eligible for military service, which is usually mislabeled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Somehow the activist judge missed Finding No. 2 in the actual law, "There is no constitutional right to serve in the armed forces." (Section 654, Title 10, U.S.C.) More...

Asking Too Much from Our Fighting Women

Over the weekend, the New York Times had a long article on women serving in the military. I stand in awe of the courage of the Marine women featured in the article - and all the women who volunteer for dangerous female-engagement teams and similar missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Capt. Emily Naslund, the women's team commander quoted in the piece, has our brave soldiers and Marines exactly right: "You've got 19- and 20-year-olds walking around in the world's most dangerous place, knowing what could happen to them, and they're willing to do that anyway, and they're willing to do that with passion." More...