NR senior editor supports inclusion of open homosexuals in military

I was going to write something about this, but it makes me too angry, so for the moment I will just quote it without comment. This is from NRO’s The Corner on Wednesday, March 14:

Gays in the Military [Ramesh Ponnuru]
Former senator Alan Simpson makes the case for ending the ban on open homosexuals in the armed forces. I thought it was mostly reasonable, although I agreed with the position before I read the op-ed. At one point, though, Simpson seems to suggest that regarding homosexual sex as immoral is “completely out of the mainstream of American thinking,” which seems false.
03/14 01:52 PM

So, Just To Be Clear [Jonah Goldberg]
Ramesh—You agree with Simpson? Or just with some of his arguments?
03/14 02:02 PM

Re: Just to Be Clear [Ramesh Ponnuru]
I agree with Sen. Simpson’s conclusion that the exclusion of open gays in the military should end.
03/14 03:24 PM

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Derek C. writes:

Give National Review another five years, and they’ll be celebrating homosexual “marriage.”

LA replies:

Maybe not celebrating it, but given this shocking AND surprising endorsement by Ponnuru of homosexuals in the military, support for homosexual marriage by NR within five years is no longer an unrealistic prospect. But NR will keeps its devoted “conservative” fan base, because, after all, NR will still be holding the line against marriages between humans and animals, and therefore will still be the flagship magazine of American conservatism.

Carl Simpson replies:

Since NR is the sty where the original “Animal House Conservative” holds court, I wouldn’t necessarily count on any serious opposition to human-animal “marriages” or “inter-species relationships” lasting for very long there. NR merely represents the right wing of the dialectic dragon which flaps ever leftward towards nihilism’s insatiable inferno.

LA replies:

LOL.

Spencer Warren writes:

This is also no surprise in light of some at NR’s endorsement of Mary Cheney—which you wrote up as “Conservatives for Homosexual Transformation of Society.” Remember Nordlinger re Bush’s endorsement of her: “Sheer class that man has, sheer class.”

Obviously Ponnuru and Lowry feel no compunction about sticking it in the eye of true conservatives, including the fool responsible for this, Buckley. And apparently their circulation must be holding up.

Some prestigious person needs to make a full assault on NR and its boy editors.

If I may say so, I had my finger on all this 4 years ago with my “Conservative Generation Gap” essay at Claremont.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 15, 2007 11:10 PM | Send