"We should not be punishing patriotic Americans who have stepped forward to serve this country," he said. "I'm working with the Pentagon, its leadership and the members of the House and Senate on ending this policy, legislation that has been introduced in the House to make this happen, I will end 'don't ask, don't tell.' That's my commitment to you."

Since the 1990s this debate has revolved around the question: can homosexuals serve without hindering military operations? This point is minor. More importantly, what will actually happen when ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is lifted?   Regardless of where one stands on the issue, lifting the ban will surely have consequences beyond those intended. I think it post-“Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” era will play out something like this.

The public relations media blitz will come first. This phase is likely being engineered by gay activists groups now. Homosexual activists will enlist and enter the service academies (sponsored by Blue state progressive politicians). Currently serving homosexual enlisted and officers, now being groomed by activist groups, will publicly come out of the closet. Human interest stories will cover television and the internet about homosexual heroes who served valiantly while hiding who they were. There will be the story of the commander or general who served for years in fear of being ‘outed.’ They’ll be the drama of the new recruit, someone older, who always dreamed of serving but was too afraid to enlist. There will be the story of the tough-nosed battle veteran who hid his sexual orientation for years. There will be pictures of gay officers swearing in gay enlistees. This honeymoon period will last about 6 months to a year.

Next, comes the “Tailhook” moment. Eventually, America’s new homosexual heroes will complain of further persecution by the straight military culture. It may be a real incident or manufactured by an activists in uniform. A soldier may call someone “f*g” in the chow hall, or, God forbid, actual violence. Real, staged, or trumped the homosexual heroes will take on victim status. After the expected media blitz will come calls for congressional hearings into the matter. New regulations will be rushed into place formalizing military homosexuals as a permanent protected class. These regulations will include military speech codes, mandatory homosexual awareness and sensitivity training, and maybe even “Homosexual Heritage Month.” Any opposition to gays in the ranks will be silenced by hate crimes legislation and regulations. Once the “Tailhook” stage is complete the left will have a free hand implementing its social engineer agenda within the Department of Defense.

Now the Left will secure an important secondary goal of its campaign - access to the largest pool of discretionary government money and a massive host of VA entitlement programs. Gay activist will quickly push for access to commissary, exchange, medical and dental benefits for same sex “partners.” Once this is accomplished it will open up billions in VA benefits to same-sex couples, including jobs, health benefits, and education. Since homosexuality will be a protected class, expect openly gay activists to begin to fill key Pentagon positions.

With lucrative entitlements on the line the Left will push to legitimize same sex military partners. This will start with minor regulatory changes, quietly accomplished at lower levels. Eventually, it will elevate to such a point it gets public attention. By that time, the media will say, “The military has already granted X and Y benefits to military same-sex partners, legislation will just formalize it.” This softens the debate for gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-gendered (GLBT) marriage in the military.

The military is highly sought by the Left as a social laboratory for two reasons: the ease of implementing social policy by executive decree upon a captive population; and as a gateway to the rest of the federal government. Though an executive pen stroke the military will recognize gay marriage, then the rest of the federal government will fall in line. What was once state issue will transform to a federal civil rights issue overnight. Any state denying benefits to same-sex military couples will be dragged into federal civil rights court. The left will have won a tremendous victory in the culture war.

And so begins the final, and ultimate goal, of the Left... the fundamental transformation of America’s most effective government institution - and its most conservative. The Left views the military as a hostile political entity and want to fundamentally transform it. They still remember Florida in the 2000 presidential campaign, where many Democrats still believe the military vote tipped the scales for Bush over Gore. By 2000 42 percent of all military recruits were from the south, followed by the west, with an ever declining number of people from the more liberal northeast and west coast. In a 2006 Military Times Poll, 50% conservative or very conservative, 56% Republican, and 59% said no to gays serving in the military. Hence, the Left’s transformation of the military will begin with its Christians.

 Over 40 percent of the military, including 60% of its chaplains are evangelical Christians. When openly opposing the homosexual lifestyle in the military becomes hate speech, these evangelicals will have only two choices: silence or resignation. Over the course of one generation evangelical Christians may vanish from the service and take their ethics, mores, and sense of duty with them. They will likely discourage their children from military service as well. With the loss of this major institution, conservatives will be further marginalized within American society.

What will the military look like then? It’s unsure, but if it gravitates towards the Left it will become more political, not less. Other fringe Left-wing movements, seeing the successful strategy employed by the GLBT movement, will also try to use the military as a legitimizing force. These progressive movements will quickly move to tap streams of defense funding and infiltrate the Defense Department. Eventually, the military, like all institutions taken over by progressives, will be besieged with so many social mandates military considerations will take a back seat to social engineering and wealth redistribution.

The US military works and the American public knows it. 69% of Americans have a great deal confidence in the U.S. military. The GLBT’s agenda for the military will have repercussions far beyond the issues of “fairness” and whether gays are fit for combat. It exposes the military, a critical and highly functional institution, to social forces which may tear it apart and transform it into something which won’t serve the best interests of America.