Gay Rights Group To Bush: No Medal For Peter Pace
List Of This Year’s Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
by Aamer Madhani - The Swamp
The gay rights advocacy group PFLAG is blasting President Bush’s for his decision to award the highest civilian award to Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who once said that he thought homosexual acts are “immoral.”
Pace later apologized for injecting his personal opinion in his defense of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask don’t tell” policy. PFLAG is calling on Americans to write the president to protest his decision to award Pace the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“Honoring General Pace for using his personal prejudice to meddle with military matters is just plain wrong,” PFLAG wrote on its blog. “There should be no medal for bigotry and intolerance.”
In its announcement, the White House called Pace “one of our nation’s most accomplished and respected military officers.”
Pace sparked controversy in March 2007, when he said in an interview with Chicago Tribune reporters and editors that he supported the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy because homosexual acts are immoral and akin to a member of the armed forces conducting an adulterous affair with the spouse of another service member.
Under the policy, gays and lesbians may serve only if they keep their sexual orientation private and do not engage in homosexual acts. Their commanders may not ask about their orientation.
“As an individual, I would not want [acceptance of gay behavior] to be our policy, just like 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,” Pace said in the Tribune interview.
Pace, who played a central part in planning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, eventually was forced out his post as the chief military advisor to the president at the end of his first term as the chairman of the Joint Staff.
At the time, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the decision not to appoint him to a second term wasn’t a reflection on Pace’s performanc. Gates said that he knew Pace would face bruising questioning by the Senate Armed Services Committee for his role in the early mismanagement of the war in Iraq if the President nominated him to serve again.
Pace will be the fourth key figure in the Iraq war to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Bush previously honored George Tenet, the former CIA director; retired Gen. Tommy Franks, the head of U.S. Central Command at the start of the Iraq war; and Paul Bremer, who headed the U.S. provisional authority in Iraq.
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Fucking bullshit… that’s all I have to say about it.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:02 pmI give the big salute of “F U C K Y O U” to all militant queers and the friends at PFAG. I’d tell you to suck my rod but you’d likely take me up on it.
Do the world a favor and go “off” yourself while the rest of the world awards a man of valor. Something you dregs could never possibly understand.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:04 pmCongatulations General Pace! You deserve the honor!
June 13th, 2008 at 1:08 pmWhat a bunch of fucking hypocrites! They bitch that Pace is intolerant, yet they will crucify anyone who doesn’t go along with their choice of lifestyle.
They can scream all day long from the top of their soapbox but the bottom line is that Pace is GOING to get that medal.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:17 pmWhat a bunch of fucking hypocrites! They bitch that Pace is intolerant, yet they will crucify anyone who doesn’t go along with their choice of lifestyle.
They can scream all day long from the top of their soapbox but the bottom line is that Pace is GOING to get that medal.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:17 pmGeneral Pace you deserve this honor because you earned it. as for these queers saying you dont they can quite simply go take baths with toasters.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:20 pmand another thing why does he not have the right to object to homosexuality? yet they have the right to call him an intolerant bigot? what ever happened to free speech and the right to have your opinion?
June 13th, 2008 at 1:24 pmIf there were a medal for bigotry and intolerance, you hypocritical lefty bastages would score it.
Pshaw. I say give him another medal, just to watch these idiots spiral into a raving froth. That’s good TV!
June 13th, 2008 at 1:27 pmGeorge Tenet, the former CIA director (Clinton leftover) is one who should never have gotten the medal. The crybaby in a pink necktie ran the CIA when TWA 800 went down, when the Cole was attacked, when the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed and on September 11, 2001.
General Pace deserves special recognition for resisting the urge to execute the faggots who infiltrated the military wilst Clintoon was CIC.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:59 pmhe is a true hero and a victim of the bush haters.. he was a great leader and was not able to really come to his full potential as chairman because of the political BS that the military does not partake in..
June 13th, 2008 at 2:05 pmWay to go General Pace.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:37 pmSo let me get this STRAIGHT, a bunch of people who have never served, who refuse to understand the military culture and lifestyle or the very nature of life and death decisions are demanding that the people who do kowtow to their demands? Do they not understand that their drama queen behavior is exactly why the military frowns upon them rather than what they stick where?
Stupid entitlement minded idiots. You know what, screw em. General Pace served well in a job that is difficult during peace, let alone war. Making type of decisions that people in PFLAG refuse to. He deserves the award and I’m not saying that because I wore the uniform. Semper Fi.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:29 pmHomosexuality is immoral, distasteful, abhorant, unsanitary, uncouth and turns families and lives into wreckage and confusion.
What is “just plain wrong” is this gay “rights” (bully) group presuming to meddle into the decision of our President to honor an outstanding hero.
Listen up you bunch of Queens: get back to your ass douching and STFU.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pmDisagree with his stance, but he deserves it anyway. Thanks sir. Love the pic
June 13th, 2008 at 4:09 pmWhats immoral about a man sticking his dick into another man’s mouth, or asshole, or both?
Fuck-off sick-shit faggots.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:03 pmI agree with his views and I believe he deserves that medal and so much more. He’s a great American.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:50 pmGen. Peter Pace is worthy of this medal and so much more.
The gay rights group are worthy of death.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:15 pmThis Fag is for you.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:25 pmFucking queers. How about FUCK YOU. Gen Pace deserves the award. The rest of list is well…the rest…
Gen Pace is cut from a different cloth. He has the kind of moral caliber I expect from a leader.
There use to be two kinds of leadership taught to military leaders in the old Leadership manual. One concerned physical courage…the ability to overcome your fears and do your job….no matter the danger.
There was also moral courage. Taking a moral stand on an issue. That morality is derived from the Judeo-Christian ethos.
Both of these attributes, Gen Pace posses in spades.
Some people talk leadership, then show moral equivelance by kow-towing to the gods of this world instead of the real God. Gen Pace walks the talk and serves the living God.
And if that bothers the PC crowd, then that’s too damned bad.
Good luck in your new civilian career Gen Pace. God Bless you and your family.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:31 pmGo piss up a rope…then grow a thicker skin…life’s tough…get over yourselves…and get on with your lives.
Oh, and BTW…
PS - stop the fuckin’ whining…it’s annoying as hell.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:34 pmI don’t think it’s their call.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:36 pmSince when does 4-5% of the population get to dictate what the rest of us do? Why do we have to redefine marriage to please these people?
June 13th, 2008 at 8:38 pmSince when does 4-5% of the population get to dictate what the rest of us do?
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A bit off topic but … THAT is basically the % dictating that we can’t explore and drill our own domestic oil reserves …
That’s bad enough … except, these people were NEVER voted into any postion of authority in our country … and hold legal shotguns over private industry and our own government.
People such as these gay rights groups and the enviromental lobbyists are pretty much running a ’shadow government’ within our own country …
Time to take back the republic …
June 14th, 2008 at 6:45 amgen pace said that homosexual acts outside of marriage or civil union is the same as a sexual act by heterosexuals out side of marriage or civil union..and that is against the military code,,, remember kelly flynn??? and bill clinton??? ooops he was immune to military laws…
June 14th, 2008 at 8:35 amgen pace never said anything against homosexuals…
June 14th, 2008 at 8:36 amThose damned homo-fascists should remember it is servicemen like Gen. Pace that ensure the hajjis don’t stone them to death for their acts of sodomy.
Congrats, General!
June 14th, 2008 at 8:58 amKommiecrats have allways amazed me;
their peace/anti-war demonstartions are so violent.
their anti-militants are so militent
their free speech advocates are so anti free speech
their gays are so unhappy & spiteful
Perhaps they deserve their own state…how about Sanora?
June 14th, 2008 at 9:37 am