09-27-2007, 12:01 PM
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| Partisan Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles Gender:  Posts: 10,695 Country:  Points: 34,629, Level: 100 | Level up: 0%, 0 Points needed | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fxashun Gotta respect a man that can stick by his personal moral compass before such a group of a-holes. I commend him. It's a shame he's retiring. | Apparently a group of homosexual activists had to be ejected from the hearing for trying to prevent the exercise of free speech and conducting the People's business in the name of toleration: Anti-war protesters sitting behind Pace jeered the four-star general's remarks with some shouting, "Bigot!" That led Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Byrd, D- West Virginia., to adjourn the hearing abruptly and seal off the doors. The hearing resumed about five minutes later in which Pace said he would be supportive of efforts to revisit the Pentagon's policy so long as it didn't violate his belief that sex should be restricted to a married heterosexual couple. "I would be very willing and able and supportive" to changes to the policy "to continue to allow the homosexual community to contribute to the nation without condoning what I believe to be activity -- whether it to be heterosexual or homosexual -- that in my upbringing is not right," Pace said. Doggone it darn right you betcha bless your heart maverick |