Jane Chastain : Politically Direct

Two weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled  “Will the Military Cut and Run on the Homosexual Issue.”  It concerned flack over language in a 1996 policy document (reauthorized in 2003) that outlines retirement or other discharge policies for service members. The document, which was unearthed by a gay advocacy group, the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military, listed homosexuality along with a group of mental disorders as reasons for discharge.The Center used this discovery to orchestrate a media campaign designed to browbeat those in charge of our military to reword the document in order to perpetuate the myth that homosexual activity is normal healthy behavior. Read the rest of this entry »

Is the military about to “cut and run” over the issue of allowing open homosexuals to serve in our Armed Forces? The answer is “yes.”More correctly, military leaders and those charged with the oversight of the military are about to cut and run.

When it comes to dealing with controversial issues, the men behind the military’s Oz-like “curtain” are not men at all but scared little boys and girls when it comes to standing up to narrow, vocal special-interest groups – especially those that are the darlings of the mainstream media. Read the rest of this entry »

The Environmental Protection Agency is a polluter’s worst nightmare. If there is a toxic waste dump, the EPA is on it like grease on a mechanic. If there is a noxious emission, the EPA gets its nose out of joint faster than ice melts at the equator.

Now, it seems, the agency itself needs a cleanup of sorts. Thanks to some sleuthing at the American Family Association and Concerned Women for America’s Culture & Family Institute, we know that this agency is doing a little polluting of its own by celebrating Gay Pride Month.

Six years into the Bush Administration, your tax dollars are still being used to promote behaviors that many understand to be immoral and profoundly unhealthy. Read the rest of this entry »

My biggest problem with Harriet Miers is the same as it was for John Roberts, the new chief justice of the Supreme Court. It is the same as it has been for President Bush. It is an issue from which pro-family leaders and leaders of the religious right – the groups that got out the votes that put Bush over the top in the last two presidential elections – have shied away. It is the advancement of gay rights.

Please, understand. I do not care what someone does behind closed doors with their sex life (as long as it does not include a minor). That is just too much information. I am concerned, however, when a behavior – any behavior – gives the person practicing that behavior access to my hard-earned tax dollars or special privileges under the law. Read the rest of this entry »