Disgrace to the Uniform of the Week

In a recent interview with the "Chicago Tribune", Gen. Peter Pace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated: "I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way."

Along with the surprising remarks above, Pace also attempted to compare homosexuality with adultery, commenting "I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else's wife, that we would just look the other way, which we do not. We prosecute that kind of immoral behavior." At first, I found it utterly amazing that highly decorated individual such as Pace could make these immature statements. However, after about five seconds, I realized that it actually wasn't. Pace and many ignorant members of the conservative right believe that homosexuals are completely immoral and, even worse, make those beliefs known. However, none of those naive individuals complain when homosexuals are serving and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, protecting lives and property as firefighters and police officers or treating injuries and saving lives as doctors and nurses. (In fact, when it comes to homosexuals in the military, they can't even count on the top U.S. military officer to defend them.) Instead, Pace and others like him want to have their cake and eat it too. In other words, homosexuals can defend the United States and care for fellow Americans but are not viewed as equals.