Military no place for ‘wokeness’

OPINION:

The 1973 vote by the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual gave major fuel to the LGBTQ camp.

The disruptive, chaotic attacks by activists prompted APA members to exchange decades of successful research and treatment of homosexual disorders for popular societal and political acclaim.

Activists targeted researchers including David Reuben, William Masters and Virginia Johnson to ensure sanctity for the APA action.

Persistent activism enabled academia infiltration, thereby ensuring all of the LGBTQ cohort would benefit from prequalified peer reviewers and preordained theses.

The next signpost was the elimination of the military meritocracy.

The political impetus for repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” relied for cover on the Defense Department’s deceptive proclamation that 70% of service members foresaw either positive or no effect.

However, the Marines, Army and Special Forces units at the pointy end of the spear rejected the idea. They understood the totalitarian leadership and obedience demanded by their barbaric, traumatic and brittle environments.

Sexual aberrations cannot intrude into operations that require sacrificial, primitive and intimate actions.

The U.S. armed forces became playthings for bureaucrats whose covens are committed to socialist definitions of equal opportunity and affirmative action.

The APA now holds that nearly all sexual actions are normal and the Defense Department says LGBTQ individuals may serve in the most rigorous and lethal environments.

In a mere 50 years, sexual disorders against which people once contended became identities to celebrate.

NOLAN NELSON

Redmond, Oregon