Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, apparently doesn't think much of the family values of Vice President Dick Cheney, the man who helped push the U.S. into a war that has cost thousands of American lives and wounded tens of thousands of American troops.
On Monday, Gen. Pace, likened homosexual acts to adultery and said the military should not condone it by allowing gays to serve openly in the armed forces. On Tuesday Pace backtracked and said he should not have voiced his personal view that homosexuality.
"I should have focused more on my support of the policy and less on my personal moral views," Pace said in an article on the Washington Post. And how do those those moral views compare to those supported by our leaders?
Let's see, in 2004 Lynee Cheney criticized Sen. John Kerry for saying “We’re all God’s children, and I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney’s daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she’s being who she was. She’s being who she was born as. I think if you talk to anybody, it’s not a choice.”
If the Cheney's were upset at Kerry for saying that one can only imagine the Cheney's outrage for having the head of the Joint Chief of Staff call the lifestyle of their daughter's (and a number of troops) immoral and compared gays to an adulterer.
Oh sure, Gen. Pace didn't specifically mention the Cheney's daughter but if conservatives can claim that a joke by Sen. Kerry about George Bush was "actually" about the troops then shouldn't Gen. Pace's criticism of gays can be viewed as an attack on Cheney's daughter?
So I'm sure that the Cheney's, and all those conservatives who criticized Kerry, will be out shortly to criticize Pace... Right, I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
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