Conservatives blame Shalikashvili's stroke for his support of Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal

[PageOneQ]

http://pageoneq.com/news/2006/dadt010507.html

Agape Press, the news service of the American Family Association, has reported on the response of the conservative military watchdog group, the Center for Military Readiness, to a New York Times op-ed in which retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili called for the repeal of the law which led to the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. The policy forces lesbians and gays to remain in the closet should they wish to join or remain in the armed forces.

Conceding that the General's stance would assist efforts to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Agape reported that Donnelly said Shalikashvili is "struggling" to keep his health. "She says it is 'really sad' to see someone like the General being used by the homosexual propaganda machine as 'the latest tool of a public relations campaign,'" reported Agape.

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[Kagemusha]

1. It reads like blaming the 'propaganda machine' more specifically

like that's better.. (Edit: I cut out an abbeviated form of 'homosexual' because even though the subject line has limited space, some might be offended anyway so I thought better of it)

[xchrom]

2. fucking tapeworms.

agape and fof -- all of them -- parasites of satan's making.

[Renew Deal]

3. Fucking traitors

This is the lowest of the low. Shalikashvili has given and given and re-given to this country. He doesn't deserve this from some loudouth homophobes or anyone else.

[Divine Discontent]

4. your comment

makes me proud of DU. I 2nd your sentiment.



www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<-- antibush prodem stickers/shirts

[IndianaGreen]

5. The word "Agape" is a Greek word that means "love."

Agape is pure love, the love that Saint Paul wrote in the 13th Chapter of his letter to the Corinthians.

Consider this when you read the hateful crap being put out by Agape Press.

[msongs]

6. I thought it meant standing and staring with one's mouth hanging open nt

[aquart]

7. Those early Christians went in for a lot of "pure love."

agapism
The doctrine exalting the value of love, especially in its general, nonsexual sense.

An iconoclastic view: " 'Love Feast,' first of Aphrodite's holy whores (Horae), was canonized as a Christian saint when icons of the Horae were re-lableled 'virgin martyrs': Sts. Agape, Chione, and Irene. Agape originally personified the rite of sexual communion, as practiced in Aphrodite's temples and adopted by some early Christian sects as a Tantric type of 'spiritual marriage'. By the 7th century C.E. (Common Era) the agape ceremony was declared heretical, but it continued secretly throughout the Middle Ages."
—Barbara G. Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
Harper San Francisco; 1983; page 12.

<http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/46/?letter=A&spage=4>

[brentspeak]

8. Who's "Donnelly"? This is an amateurish attempt at a news article.

[Ian David]

9. I wonder how clearly D. James Kennedy is going to be thinking. n/t

[Hekate]

10. When did Shalikashvili have a stroke? Somehow I missed that entirely.

Other than that, just another press release purporting to show how a "loving" god behaves toward his children.

Hekate