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The Army value of Personal Courage was clearly displayed in General Pace's willingness to set aside political correctness or concerns about a hyper sensitive populace and speak the plain truth. "Homosexual acts are immoral!" (See Chicago Tribune 13 Mar 2007) Who knows what the political fall out will be since the current reality is a world were minority populations, like homosexuals, wield great power in the courts. But, the General's words were true, and in the end the truth will make us free. That is because the basic truth that Homosexual conduct is immoral, provides answers to the sophistries of those who would like to shroud the truth for personal reasons.

Propensity: We hear much debate, even scientific inquiry, about whether homosexuals are "born that way." General Pace's truth makes that inquiry irrelevant. No matter where the desires come from, acting on those propensities is not excusable, any more than the propensity to drink excuses the drunk driver, or the propensity to pedophilia excuses the predator, or the propensity to steal, the kleptomaniac. Clearly, those with a propensity to violence or killing are not excused when they act upon that propensity. Every human being has a propensity to some immoral conduct or other. But what makes us civilized, is our ability to restrain the propensity, to over come the urges and passions, to control the natural man. If we excuse any immoral conduct based on the claim that the perpetrator was born with the inclination, then we must excuse it all, which logically must lead to anarchy and a return to the law of the jungle.

Civil Rights: I saw a silly sign lately claiming "civil marriage is a civil right" I gathered it was another misguided attempt to equate immoral conduct with civil rights. A careful investigation of that claim reveals that there is a huge difference between equal rights for women or racial minorities, and the wrongful application of that idea to immoral conduct such as homosexuality. It has never been, is not now and never will be immoral or evil, to be Asian, Black, Caucasian, or Hispanic. It has never been, is not now, and never will be immoral or sinful to be a woman or a man. However, it has always been, is now, and always will be, immoral and sinful to practice or endorse homosexual relationships. Homosexuality is harmful to the individuals who practice it, and the society that endorses it. This is not an issue of equal rights, but an issue of the move of society into debauchery.

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