Today, Dinghy Harry Reid plans to lead his Senatorial minions in a procedural vote on a bill which would end the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.  If passed, it would be a huge victory for President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm), the Far Left, and the strident Homosexual Activist Lobby.

If at least 60 senators vote to advance the bill, the repeal, which passed the House this week, could become a law by late afternoon.

This was one of Obama’s campaign promises that he made during his campaign in 2008. The Dems, the Nutroots, and the Homosexual Activists Lobby are pushing hard to get this done before the new Congress comes in and their chance for getting this social experiment passed diminishes to that of a snowball in July.

Advocates have been pushing hard to get this passed, even to the point of a Homosexual Activist Group vowing to sit in silent protest in the Senate gallery until the repeal is passed.

Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, said:

We simply cannot let the clock run out and lose this historic opportunity.

If DADT is repealed, it would mean that gays could publicly acknowledge their sexual orientation in our Armed Forces without fear of being kicked out.

If the bill passes, and with this bunch it looks like it will, the president, the defense secretary, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,are required to certify to Congress that lifting the ban won’t hurt troops’ ability to fight.  Once they make the certification, 60 days must pass before any changes go into effect.

The House gave its approval to this social experiment earlier in the week by a 250-174 vote.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), thinks that now is not the time to be experimenting with our Best and Brightest:

We send these young people into combat. We think they’re mature enough to fight and die. I think they’re mature enough to make a judgment on who they want to serve with and the impact on their battle effectiveness.

The administration’s push for the repeal of DADT was facilitated by a Pentagon study (Who runs the Pentagon?) that claimed that gays could serve openly without any effect on our troops in combat. The study by the Pentagon under the Obama Administration claims that two-thirds of troops predicted little impact if the law is repealed.

Of course, Obama’s employees,the Pentagon’s top leadership, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff backed the findings of the study.

Are the findings by this administration’s Pentagon politically manipulated?  You betcha.

Per marinecorpstimes.com:

Nowhere in the Pentagon’s 103-question survey about gays in the military did troops get an opportunity to offer a direct opinion on the underlying issue: Do you want to see “don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed?

In the article, also posted at navytimes.com, it is reported that Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., asked a very good question at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing:

Were you troubled at the answer we might have received, if we had simply asked them, in addition to all the other questions. … ‘Do you think the law should be changed?’

The chiefs of the Army and Marine Corps told Congress that a repeal could seriously affect troops if the law is overturned when troops are still fighting in Afghanistan.

Gen. James Amos, the head of the Marine Corps, has become the most outspoken opponent and claims letting gay troops serve openly could cost lives.

Gen. Amos, said:

We asked for their opinions, and they gave them to us. Their message to me is that the potential exists for disruption to the successful execution of our current combat mission should repeal be implemented at this time.

Obama’s employees, Gates and Mullen, dismissed the fears of Gen. Amos. They stand by the Obama Pentagon’s claim that 92 percent of troops who believe they have served with a gay person saw no impact on their units’ morale or effectiveness.

What they didn’t talk about is the fact that, according to the study by Obama’s Pentagon, 23 percent of Marines said that they would quit if DADT is repealed and another 15 percent said that they would consider leaving the Corps sooner.

Why is it that Liberals view our Best and Brightest as nothing but a collection of  lab rats, to be experimented on as the subjects of social engineering?  It’s bad enough that politicians have subjected our nation’s warriors to the whims of political expediency in the past, or, simply used them as cannon fodder. 

But, to possibly undermine the effectiveness of the world’s greatest fighting force, simply to appease the wishes of a small Activist group, consisting of a small percentage of  a larger group of still only 5 % of the U.S. population, or to appease an uncertain percentage of the 18% of Americans who self-identify as Liberal, is an act of placing politics and ideology over the safety of Americans to fulfill a campaign promise.

Gay men and women are currently serving now, subject to the same rules and discipline, the same as any other member of our Armed Forces.  And may God bless them for it.

This is not a “Civil Rights” issue.  This is another “frog in the pot of boiling water” moment brought by those intent on rebuilding our nation’s foundation on shifting sands.