Charles Bazerman, chair of the UCSB Dept. of Education, helped organize the town hall meeting as well. He said the Solomon Amendment, approved by Congress in 1996, prompted the meeting. The amendment states that campuses must allow military recruiters on the campus in order to be eligible for federal funding.

Bazerman said the military’s policy forces gay service members to hide their identities.

“The campus has a non-discrimination policy and as part of that, we ought not to allow recruiting of organizations that discriminate on campus,” Bazerman said. “The ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy’ of the military is putting gays, lesbians, etcetera in living conditions where they can’t be open to who they are and must misrepresent [themselves] and hide.”

The idea that these folks “must misrepresent themselves and hide” is utterly ridiculous. What part of “don’t ask, don’t tell” is it that these pacifist liberal jackasses don’t understand? The military isn’t about what orifice a person chooses to use for sex with what gender in order to get their rocks off. It’s about protecting our country from enemies foreign and domestic. And a person’s “sexual orientation” has nothing to do with the mission of the military to the extent that it doesn’t interfere with the goal of protecting our freedom. In other words if you keep your sexual preference to yourself, you won’t have any problems. But because the military apparently doesn’t want to be inclusive of the aforementioned big hairy men in garter belts and fishnet stockings simulating sex acts in the streets, they apparently aren’t “inclusive” enough for Bazerman and the rest of the lefties running UCSB. The belief that people of any “sexual orientation” who define themselves solely by the way they choose to have sex don’t belong in the military just doesn’t square with the UCSB “non-discrimination” policy. Too bad for the commie bureaucrats that the UCSB “non-discrimination” policy doesn’t square with the law -- specifically the Solomon Amendment of to the National Defense Authorization Act of 1995 which states:

(a) Denial of Funds for Preventing ROTC Access to Campus.--No funds described in subsection (d)(1) may be provided by contract or by grant (including a grant of funds to be available for student aid) to an institution of higher education (including any subelement of such institution) if the Secretary of Defense determines that that institution (or any subelement of that institution) has a policy or practice (regardless of when implemented) that either prohibits, or in effect prevents-- (1) the Secretary of a military department from maintaining, establishing, or operating a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps (in accordance with section 654 of this title and other applicable Federal laws) at that institution (or any subelement of that institution); or (2) a student at that institution (or any subelement of that institution) from enrolling in a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at another institution of higher education.

A famous talk show host once said the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things. A truer statement about the military has rarely been spoken. Another statement about the military that is equally as true is that the purpose of the military is NOT to be a place for social experimentation and tolerance for “diversity” of sexual preference and gender equity. The reason why we have survived as free nation for 230 years is because we kill people and break things better than anyone else. And it just so happens that heterosexual males tend in most cases, to be better at killing people and breaking things that women or gay men.

It is a fact that these mostly young, mostly heterosexual, males who do a fine job of killing people and breaking things are the very reason these simpering ninnies have the freedom and leisure time to piss away worrying about how allowing the ROTC to recruit people to defend our freedom on their campus fits into their little non-discrimination circle jerk. The fact that these simpering ninnies are too ignorant to know this doesn’t make this any less true. And because of another simpering ninny – their brother in ideology William Jefferson “I have come to loathe the military” Clinton -- and his slashing of the military by 40% in the name of reinventing government, the mission of these ROTC recruiters has never been more crucial.

Of course the ninnies at the UCSB are hardly alone in their opposition to military recruiters on campus. They may be hiding their leftist pacifist bent behind some ridiculous “non-discrimination” policy, but we hear stories nearly every week about leftists protesting, sometimes violently, the right of military recruiters to talk to interested young patriots about the possibility of serving their country in the military. Seems that these leftist ninnies are tolerant of all views and beliefs that mirror theirs but have no tolerance at all for the people who defend with their lives the right of these idiots to be intolerant little leftist bigots who hide behind the ruse of “discrimination”. If these lefties are too stubborn or too ignorant to realize crucial role the military plays in keeping them free to spout their ignorant BS, it’s time to de-fund them.

Sources: UC Santa Barbara Daily Nexus,YaleROTC.org.