Change of mind - you must be mad!

Pam's House Blend points to an article about Shalikashvili's change of mind on the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy in the military. Elaine Donnelly says, according to the article that " 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." And this is happening because, dear readers, Shalikashvili has had a stroke and is struggling with his health.

It can't be because he's continued to look at the evidence, no, no, no, it's his health.

Now health can be a reason for people going into dementia and changing statements and attitudes, but there's a simpler reason. They just have plain looked at the evidence. And that this article from Shalikashvili was published in the New York Times seems to me to indicate that at least a few people thought he was in his right mind and not bothered by the stroke or ill-health that Donelly suggests.

In my denomination it took about 100 years from the time we first had a woman ordained, until that ordination became approved. Women still struggle to find acceptance. But as with all ideas that promote equality the battle is being won. The same, with hopefully less of a time scale, is happening with gays and lesbians in the military and our society. I pray that the Elain Donelly's of this world will have more and more military figures to impugn with stories of ill health. Since there are other military forces that seem to find no problem with gay men and lesbians, I suspect she'll be put in the position of having to find more and more odd little reasons for a change of mind - that is odd, little reasons that have nothing to do with learning, examining the evidence and common sense.