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Peter J. Smith
LifeSitenews.com
March 4, 2010
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12
Pray: Father, We reaffirm that You are our God and we are Your people. We ask You for a government after Your own
heart - right now. In Jesus' name.
The highest general in the U.S. Marine Corps said Thursday that he opposes changing the law
prohibiting homosexuals from openly being in the armed forces, making him the most senior military commander to speak out
forcefully against White House [sinful] plans to nix the ban. “I think that the current policy
works," US Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway told the Senate Armed Services Committee.  Conway’s advocacy for the ban places him
in opposition to Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen. Mullen told
the same Committee that removing the ban and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was a matter of integrity,
asserting that DADT “forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.”
Conway stated that "My best military advice to this committee, to the Secretary [of Defense],
and to [Obama] would be to keep the law such as it is."
"My personal opinion is that unless we can
strip away the emotion, agenda and politics and ask, ‘do we somehow enhance the war-fighting of the United States
Marine Corps by allowing homosexuals to openly serve,’ then we haven't addressed it from the correct perspective,"
said the top Marine.
Conway’s testimony was applauded by Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for
Military Readiness, who told LifeSiteNews.com that the Marine Corps Commandant did “a fine job of stating his opinion
in support of current law.”
“He was stating common sense, and it really doesn’t take
a whole lot of courage to speak for common sense, but it certainly does take the ability to take pressure from politicians
and [Obama], who have a different point of view,” said Donnelly. Donnelly noted that
the Commandant of the Marine Corps "is the person to whom Marine families turn when they have problems and concerns,”
and thus "is much more representative of military families and those who are on active duty" than, for example, the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Donnelly said testimony that week was “a real turning point”
with US Army, Air Force, and Navy chiefs expressing grave reservations against changing the law and DADT.
US Army Chief Gen. George Casey and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz told Senators on Tuesday
that they feared a repeal under the current wartime circumstances would disturb a military already suffering from heavy
strain to fight two overseas wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chief of Naval Operations Adm.
Gary Roughead on Thursday also voiced opposition to a moratorium on DADT proposed by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), saying such
a measure would be "extremely confusing to the force." All four military chiefs,
however, said they would be in favor a Pentagon review board surveying how military personnel and their families feel about
the ban. Many retired and active duty military personnel have expressed opposition to repealing
DADT, citing the impact it would have on troop discipline and moral. One private letter to Adm. Mullen from retired Navy Captain Lawrence R. Jefferis – now published with author’s permission by Americans
United for Truth – illustrates the problem.
“The best analogy to a ship at sea is a prison. There
is no other outlet for sexual drives and I know of no prison in the United States that assigns males and females, or who
intentionally assign known homosexuals, to the same cell,” wrote Jefferis, who said he had dealt with homosexuals on
ship as an officer. “There is usually a senior/junior relationship in such [sexual] exchanges
and the senior partner will reward the junior with preferential treatment," he explained, "such as duty
assignments, watches, leave, liberty, and advancement. "Such preferential treatment can’t
be hidden from other crewmembers and tends to destroy the chain of command, discipline and morale."
Defense
Secretary Gates previously told Congress that the Pentagon will be doing a study on the matter of integrating open homosexuals
within the services, but Congress will have nearly a year to wait before the study is complete.
Donnelly told
LSN that currently there is bipartisan opposition in Congress to removing the ban and believed that “when the testimony
is filled out later on ... there is going to be reluctance on the part of Congress to repeal the law as it is.”
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Obama Lies About FaithSome of Obama's lies to Christians in one January 2008 Christianity Today interview alone include, Obama:
- Said "I am a devout Christian", but devout Christians love God with all their heart, all their soul and all
their mind. Instead, Obama knowingly breaks God's Ten Commandments (abortion) and is trying to change God's ordinance on marriage.
(Mark 12:30)
- Said "I don't know anyone who is pro-abortion", but Obama said he
would leave a living baby who survived an abortion to die, and he and Hillary Clinton have given hundreds of million of US
money to fund abortions in foreign countries, including China, through the UN. -
Said "I have never practiced Islam... it's not my own", but he says he is a Muslim in other videos and his Indonesian
school records list Obama as a Muslim, where he was taught Islam. - Said "we don't lie about religion as a way to score political points", but this interview was used to
lie to Christians.
"I am upset with Obama lying to the USA about faith - he deceived
so many", said one dissatisfied voter.
The Fruit Shows
Obama is a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"You will know them by their fruit", Jesus
said speaking of wolves in sheep's clothing. Jesus also says, "He who has My commands
and obeys them, it is he who loves Me" (John 14:21). But Obama disobeys Jesus' commands, such as lying, trying to overturn
God's command of man-woman marriage, removing abstinence teaching from schools, breaking the Ten Commandments which say not
kill the unborn, covering up Jesus at Georgetown, removing the daily Bible verse at the Pentagon, trying to remove Jesus at Christmas...
Christians are commanded to be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. With 82%
of the USA believing Jesus Christ and the majority pro-life, Americans should be outraged. (Polls from Rasmussen Reports.)
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