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Sometimes when looking at the complexities of the nation we lose sight of how the leftist agenda is focused and determined to push their ideals onto every person and institution in this great nation. Yesterday, a liberal policy group produced a letter to Congress to repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Regardless of your personal position on the matter of DADT, here is a group of leftists trying to push their ideals onto an institution which has no similarity with the civilian world.

Let me introduce everyone to The Michael D. Palm Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
And make no mistake, this think tank is clear in their motives.

The Palm Center, formerly the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military, uses rigorous social science to inform public discussions of controversial social issues, enabling policy outcomes to be informed more by evidence than by emotion.

The Center promotes the interdisciplinary analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other marginalized sexual identities in the armed forces by forging a community of scholars, creating a forum for information exchange and debate.

The Center's ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell Project’ will continue to be its first priority under its new name – The Michael D. Palm Center. – About Us

In 2007 the group release the following study by Aaron Belkin (Founder and Director of the Michael D. Palm Center) "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": Does the Gay Ban Undermine the Military's. (link)

The abstract is enough to adequately dispel any doubt that the paper is solely an agenda driven statement about the military in which the author has no understanding. Let us dive in:

This article asks what impact, if any, the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy might have on the U.S. military’s reputation. Original empirical research is presented to suggest that the policy harms the military’s reputation in four ways: the policy is inconsistent with public opinion, it prompts many journalists to criticize the armed forces while attracting almost no favorable media coverage, it provides a vehicle for antimilitary protesters to portray military culture as conflicting with widely accepted civilian values, and it is inconsistent with the views of junior enlisted service members. [emphasis mine]

Let’s digest that for a minute. The author, Associate Professor International Relations, Identity, Civil-Military Relations at UC-SB, frequent blogger at Huffington Post, and author of books titled United We Stand?: Divide-and-Conquer Politics And the Logic of International Hostility and Pink and blue: Outcomes associated with the integration of open gay and lesbian personnel in the San Diego Police Department is an activist for the gay & lesbian agenda in the US and is an unabashed supporter of all things homosexual. Hardly the voice of reason free from bias.

Dr. Belkin advocates that military service by homosexuals should not be conditioned by the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy because keeping homosexuals in the closet harms the military reputation. What sort of juvenile mindset does this professor have to believe that unit cohesion of a military group is dependent upon public reputations? Furthermore, right now, today, July 2008 there is no ban on homosexuals serving in the military, only announcing that they are indeed homosexuals.

This is just another disgusting attempt by the leftists to tear down the military which they hate.