Take for instance Monday, when Gen. Pace, the highest ranking U.S. military officer, had this to say about homosexuality:
I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral, and that we should not condone immoral acts.Remove yourself from the context of this statement. Despite how we might feel about homosexuality, or how we might feel about the legitimacy of the Iraq War--forgetting all of that, there is one obvious, glaring truth we can all accept here.
Who on fucking earth takes cues on morality from a general??
This is a lot like asking Britney Spears for stock tips, or Alan Greenspan about what pop culture assumes women want ("Hit me baby one more time"). If you will allow me to assume Gen. Pace is coming from a moderate to conservative Christian viewpoint, how on earth could anyone take him at his word on "morality?" Jesus didn't leave a clause anywhere about legitimate or illegitimate wars.
I'm pretty sure he just lumped them all together and called them, "not moral." I could be wrong--the Bible is highly interpretable--except for, of course, the parts on lying with another man.
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