Posted on Sep 22, 2015
"Mike Huckabee shows why he’s an absolute jerk with response to appointment of first gay Army secretary"
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From: Salon
More than two decades of experience working on military policy, serving as chief of staff under Defense Secretary Ash Carter at the Pentagon and serving as the undersecretary for the Air Force are apparently not sufficient enough accomplishments to prevent Republican presidential candidates from demeaning your promotion to Secretary of the Army if you are gay.
On Friday, President Obama announced the historic appointment of Eric Fanning to become the first openly gay civilian secretary of any branch of the military. Fanning was described by Defense Secretary Ash Carter as “one of our country’s most knowledgeable, dedicated, and experienced public servants,” but that did not stop former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee from denouncing Fanning’s appointment as pandering to “America’s homosexuals.”
“Homosexuality is not a job qualification,” the right-wing candidate wrote on Facebook following Fanning’s appointment, denouncing “social experiments” in the military. As the Washington Post notes, the Obama administration has six openly gay ambassadors; a gay man serving as the first special envoy to promote global LGBT rights; five transgender men and women who have served in federal agencies, and a full-time transgender staffer in the White House.
“It’s clear President Obama is more interested in appeasing America’s homosexuals than honoring America’s heroes,” the Huckster surmised:
Below is Gov. Huckabee’s statement in response to President Obama’s decision to nominate Eric Fanning as Secretary of…
Posted by Mike Huckabee on Saturday, September 19, 2015
According to CNN, Fanning’s nomination was also questioned by Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, who told evangelical Iowans at this weekend’s Faith and Freedom forum that he worried Fanning’s nomination was meant to serve as a “political statement” from the President.
“I certainly hope that the secretary of the Army is being nominated because the President wants the right person to defend our nation and not because he is looking to make a political statement on issues of sexual orientation unrelated to defending this nation and keeping us safe,” Cruz said. “But as I said, I will wait until his confirmation hearing to assess his record on the merits.”
Fanning’s nomination now awaits confirmation by Cruz and his Senate colleagues.
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/mike_huckabee_shows_why_hes_an_absolute_jerk_with_response_to_appointment_of_first_gay_army_secretary/
More than two decades of experience working on military policy, serving as chief of staff under Defense Secretary Ash Carter at the Pentagon and serving as the undersecretary for the Air Force are apparently not sufficient enough accomplishments to prevent Republican presidential candidates from demeaning your promotion to Secretary of the Army if you are gay.
On Friday, President Obama announced the historic appointment of Eric Fanning to become the first openly gay civilian secretary of any branch of the military. Fanning was described by Defense Secretary Ash Carter as “one of our country’s most knowledgeable, dedicated, and experienced public servants,” but that did not stop former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee from denouncing Fanning’s appointment as pandering to “America’s homosexuals.”
“Homosexuality is not a job qualification,” the right-wing candidate wrote on Facebook following Fanning’s appointment, denouncing “social experiments” in the military. As the Washington Post notes, the Obama administration has six openly gay ambassadors; a gay man serving as the first special envoy to promote global LGBT rights; five transgender men and women who have served in federal agencies, and a full-time transgender staffer in the White House.
“It’s clear President Obama is more interested in appeasing America’s homosexuals than honoring America’s heroes,” the Huckster surmised:
Below is Gov. Huckabee’s statement in response to President Obama’s decision to nominate Eric Fanning as Secretary of…
Posted by Mike Huckabee on Saturday, September 19, 2015
According to CNN, Fanning’s nomination was also questioned by Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, who told evangelical Iowans at this weekend’s Faith and Freedom forum that he worried Fanning’s nomination was meant to serve as a “political statement” from the President.
“I certainly hope that the secretary of the Army is being nominated because the President wants the right person to defend our nation and not because he is looking to make a political statement on issues of sexual orientation unrelated to defending this nation and keeping us safe,” Cruz said. “But as I said, I will wait until his confirmation hearing to assess his record on the merits.”
Fanning’s nomination now awaits confirmation by Cruz and his Senate colleagues.
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/mike_huckabee_shows_why_hes_an_absolute_jerk_with_response_to_appointment_of_first_gay_army_secretary/
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“Homosexuality is not a job qualification,”
I agree with that statement.
A persons sexual orientation does not belong on a resume and should not have anything to do with how well they can or can not perform a job.
I agree with that statement.
A persons sexual orientation does not belong on a resume and should not have anything to do with how well they can or can not perform a job.
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I've known gay people all of my life. No big deal. What I hate about any group is when they want to be equal yet have to make a big deal about how they are different. It goes for the current political & social atmosphere too. I don't care if you are gay or straight, white, black, green, Muslim, Atheist, some sort of Christian, etc. Are you a good person? Can you do the job you are tasked to do? Are you a back-stabber? Do you have my back if we get knee deep in alligators & hand-grenades? If you want to be equal or accepted, then be ready to deal with being mediocre. You are much more of a person than your sexuality, religion, color, ethnicity, or whatever. All I care about is Ash Carter qualified for his job? Does he have the right personality & stones to interact & act out to be an effective leader? Does he have jeuvos to tell political heads to butt out that they don't know what they are doing but that he certainly knows what is right for the country, the US military, & especially those going in harms way?
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Why would his sexual orientation become a headline anyway. Does it matter in the performance of his position? What reasons are there to mention anything about his sexuality? Political maneuvering to gain headlines by those in Liberal politics, political maneuvering to gain coverage by Presidential Candidates and the news media industry gains viewership through attention grabbing headlines.
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Hmm..would I have a large focus problem if any female or a homosechual male were in the foxhole with me. FUBAR I won't do what you tell me...
Obama has vastly changed the face of the federal bureaucracy
Women, minorities and gay Americans are now occupy top posts in record numbers.
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Doesn't really matter to me. I thought John McGugh was gay based on his picture. Government employees are usually fat and ugly.
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