Aides: Pace Won't Apologize for Gay Remark

[babylonsister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070313/military-gays

Aides: Pace Won't Apologize for Gay Remark

PAULINE JELINEK | AP | March 13, 2007

WASHINGTON — Senior aides to the chairman of the military Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday that Marine Gen. Peter Pace won't apologize for calling homosexuality immoral _ an opinion that gay advocacy groups deplored.

In a newspaper interview Monday, Pace had likened homosexual acts to adultery and said the military should not condone it by allowing gays to serve openly in the armed forces.

"General Pace's comments are outrageous, insensitive and disrespectful to the 65,000 lesbian and gay troops now serving in our armed forces," the advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network said in a statement on its Web site.

The group has represented some of the thousands dismissed from the military for their sexual orientation.

Pace's senior staff members said Tuesday that the general was expressing his personal opinion and had no intention of apologizing. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak on the record.

Rep. Martin Meehan, who has introduced legislation to repeal the current policy, criticized Pace's comments.

"General Pace's statements aren't in line with either the majority of the public or the military," said the Massachusetts Democrat. "He needs to recognize that support for overturning (the policy) is strong and growing" and that the military is "turning away good troops to enforce a costly policy of discrimination."

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[AndyA]

1. There are many who feel that war is immoral.

Killing another human being is forbidden in The Bible.

How do you justify your actions, General Pace?

Just because you're a hypocrit isn't a valid excuse or answer. (And you are a hypocrit.)

[Parche]

2. F Pace

Pace can take his 4stars and stick them where he wont ask or tell...............

[maxsolomon]

3. outrageous slander

but just about what i expect from the military. not exactly a bastion of progressive thinking & tolerance.

or strategy, apparently.

[ChicagoRonin]

4. 10 Commandments

Will Pace please let me know which one forbids homosexuality?

I remember the ones about NOT killing, NOT stealing and NOT lying.