No.
Where are you quoting “normal” from? No one is asking the military to “officially affirm” ANY sexuality as “normal.” This argument is used only as a strawman.
Possibly you really do think that. But I don’t see how you could.
By repealing DADT, the government is saying, as an official act, that there is no distinction between heterosexual relationships (which all non-homosexual soldiers have had throughout the ages) and homosexual relationships. It will be as clear a message to society as could possibly be imagined that homosexuality and heterosexuality are equivelant; just two variations of “normal”. In an age in which parents are fighting (and often losing) to keep their children from having to read “Heather Has Two Mommies” or some other homosexualist propaganda imposed on them by some governmental unit or other, does anybody who has attained the age of reason actually think there won’t be additional propaganda about “G.I. Joe and his spouse, Ken” when DADT is repealed? Does anybody truly believe there won’t be uniformed soldiers in gay rights parades, or citations that “Well if the military is okay with it, why not adopt it in other ways in society, like marriage”? Does anybody actually think the next thing after DADT will not be post housing for one’s “other” and spousal allowances, homosexual couples at official functions, etc?
The current government would surely like to impose homosexual “equivalency” in every way in this society. DADT is one of those ways, because it is a radical government that wants to change society in many ways; that being one of them. The homosexual lobby has a lot of clout with this administration, and it will get it done in every way the two of them can manage. DADT is only one of those ways.
I am just thunderstruck that people who argue (here and elsewhere) that, well, there really is no significance in official government affirmation of things; that it has no societal effect. Here we are, in what is possibly the most orthodox Catholic site on the internet, and yet we do see some affirm abortion, fetal stem cell research and “homosexual marriage”, notwithstanding that all are considered extremely immoral by the Church.
Yes, I know. “You can’t impose your morality on society”. I have heard that one a million times if I have heard it once. That argument would work for murder as well as homosexual proselytizing. But you can certainly do it negatively, and it happens all the time. Governments can certainly have a negative influence on the mores of a society, and history (including our own) is replete with examples of it. And so, if a person advocates the promotion of homosexuality by superimposing it on a heretofore revered institution like the military, then he is free to do that as a citizen. As a Catholic, however, I cannot favor something that my Church teaches (and I believe) is is immoral, and I cannot favor the government endorsement of that thing. I cannot personally approve government affirmation of homosexuality any more than I can approve its affirmation of abortion or fetal stem cell research. Nor should any Catholic. I’ll grant, there are those who do.
It would be refreshing, I think, if homosexual promoters really were just honest about it and said their objective is to equate, in the minds of the public and particuarly the young, that there is really no difference between homosexuality and heterosexuality. But I’ll grant it is easier to eat away at public mores around the edges than it is to come clean and just say they’re just as okay with “Barbie and Suzie” as they are with “Barbie and Ken”, in every way, and that they really want to teach that to children.
But again, never fear. This president has promised his homosexual activist constituency that he will repeal DADT and he will make good on that promise. Why hasn’t he done it yet? Well, we still have two wars going in Islamic countries, and he’s a bit sensitive about creating negative images of U.S. soldiers in that area right now. Maybe he’ll repeal DADT before he has withdrawn from those wars. Certainly, he will do so after.
I remember reading long ago about the plight of parents in Eastern Bloc countries, particularly Poland, timorously awaiting that day when they felt they finally had to tell their children “No, what the government is telling you is all lies.” We’ll get there too, and government affirmation of homosexuality as “normal” is just one of those lies.
