Jam Mattis has hted that he believ Print Obama's efforts to allow gay and transgenr troops to serve openly has weakened the ary.
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- JAM MATTIS’ VIEWS ON GAYS AND LBIANS MAK HIM THE BT PICK DONALD TMP HAS MA
- FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY ON TMP’S MILARY TRANS BAN
JAM MATTIS’ VIEWS ON GAYS AND LBIANS MAK HIM THE BT PICK DONALD TMP HAS MA
Kirsten Gillibrand, who noted that Mattis had raised qutns the past about whether gays servg openly and women takg bat rol may unrme the potency of US forc. Congrs repealed a ban on gays, lbians, and bisexuals servg openly the ary 2010, and the Pentagon lifted a ban on transgenr people servg openly last June. The senator charged the guidance mirrors past polici that discrimated agast mory groups the ary cludg gays, women and blacks.
) asked him whether gay and lbian troops uld ntue to serve openly a Tmp admistratn, Mattis offered 16 words that are as val a natnal motto as "E plurib unum":"Frankly, " Mattis said. "Gillibrand was seekg only a mundane answer: There are no atheists foxhol, after all, so obvly there shouldn't be any homophob, eher, right?
Stt Applewhe/AP)You may argue that the -long bate — and ultimate triumph of — gay marriage suggts that policians have long ago set asi their bias agast ee as the Supreme Court's landmark lg 2015 revealed, the bate about same-sex unns was not about pulatn but about pulatn; if the ernment was gog to set up the legal amework of marriage, uldn't rightly ny some cizens accs s even durg the bate, few policians had the guts to champn the "sex" part of "same-sex" marriage, as Mattis did on, there was plenty of lip service to ernment fally allowg people to love as they choose — but there was also plenty of crgg whenever anyone brought up the issue of where those lips actually go when people love as they is why Mattis' wordg was so f---g rehg — emphasis on f---g. — thk of gays.
FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY ON TMP’S MILARY TRANS BAN
(BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERS)Wh Mattis certa to be nfirmed, I'm lookg forward to "Haton"-style bet battl, as he fends his bedroom ay agast, say, g Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who has lled homosexualy a disorr; would-be Attorney General Jeff Ssns, who se gay marriage as ernment-imposed secularism; Environmental Protectn Agency opponent and would-be secretary Stt Pt, who wants to make life harr for transgenr cizens; Interr Secretary-signate Ryan Zke, who plaed about same-sex marriage bee vlat his relig views; would-be Health and Human Servic Secretary Tom Price, who lled the Supreme Court lg that legalized gay marriage a "sad day"; and g Hog Secretary Ben Carson, who once likened gay sex to btialy.
He also appoted the first openly gay Army secretary Eric Fanng, who was herald for his abily to nnect the LGBT muny and the armed forc.
Gays and lbians uld openly serve the ary before gay marriage the Uned Stat.