In a much publicized California court ruling earlier this week a judge ruled that the military’s policy regarding gays known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was unconstitutional and ordered the military to immediately put a stop to the policy. At that time is was unknown whether the Obama regime would appeal this decision or not, but comments by Robert Gibbs made it appear as though the president would indeed appeal this decision.
And today Barack Obama’s Department of Justice did just that, they have appealed the California court ruling. Barack Obama is going to defend this decision using the same argument he made in defense of appealing the Massachusetts court ruling which stated that the “Defense of Marriage Act” is unconstitutional; he is going to claim that while he personally feels the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy should be overturned he is forced to appeal this ruling because it is federal statute.
Obama said he was obliged to enforce and defend “don’t ask” because it became the law 17 years ago.
“Congress explicitly passed a law that took away the power of the executive branch to end this policy unilaterally,” Obama said in response to a question about why he had not lifted the ban. “So, this is not a situation in which, with a stroke of a pen, I can simply end the policy.”
I find myself in the strange position of actually agreeing with Barack Obama on this issue. This is not an issue that the courts should decide, it is an issue that the Congress should decide. But I do not think that this is a notion that the gay community and gay activists are going to understand or be happy with. The gay community is already upset with Barack Obama for what they perceive as his lack of interest in pushing forward what they consider to be a civil rights issue, and this decision will only further the growing rift between Barack Obama and the gay community.
Barack Obama–even while appealing this court decision–reiterated the fact that “Don’t Ask, Don’t tell” will be repealed and it will be repealed on his watch, and I believe him. I do think that it will be repealed in the near future; I believe the issue will be addressed in the Congress after the election, the question is, will the gay community believe him?
Frankly, I am shocked that the Obama regime did not wait until after the election to make the announcement that they are appealing this court decision. Barack Obama must have looked at this through a political prism–instead of doing what he thought was right–before making this announcement and he must have decided that it was politically more beneficial to him to make this announcement before the election as a way to show the American people that he is not as far to the left as he has governed in his first two years.
Knowing that the gay activists have nowhere else to turn, he realized that he had a better chance of securing more of the moderate votes with this decision than he stood to lose within the gay community so he made the appeal public.
It will be interesting to see how this issue plays out but one thing is certain, this issue is not going to go away for quite some time.
America's Watchtower 
As Sharia law is introduced into Europe and Canada, there is the back door conflict as it seeps into the U.S. and Obama is a politician.
Homosexuality is not allowed in Islam. Islamic Sharia law is extracted from both the Qur’an and hadiths.
“Homosexuality is one of the most disgusting sins and greatest crimes…. It is a vile perversion that goes against sound nature, and is one of the most corrupting and hideous sins…. The punishment for homosexuality is death. Both the active and passive participants are to be killed whether or not they have previously had sexual intercourse in the context of a legal marriage…. Some of the companions of the Prophet stated that [the perpetrator] is to be burned with fire. It has also been said that he should be stoned, or thrown from a high place.”
Saudi Ministry of Education Textbooks for Islamic Studies: 2007-2008 Academic Year
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islam_and_Homosexuality
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I must agree with this. This is the right decision because we cannot have federal judges overriding federal mandates that govern the military. If this is allowed to stand, where does it end…it doesn’t.
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True, once the courts have decided they can set military policy all bets are off. This will only be the beginning.
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