Tony Perkins, the president of the
Christian-based Family Research Council (FRC), warned Thursday that
lifting the military's ban on gay and bisexual service would push out
service members and choke off the flow of new recruits, forcing the
Obama administration to reinstate the draft.
“Barack Obama is opposed to the draft
as a matter of principle, to be sure,” Perkins wrote in an op-ed
for the The
Daily Caller. “But the president's drive to repeal the ban
on open homosexuality in the military could have this unintended
consequence: It could bring back the draft.”
Without “Don't Ask, Don't Tell,”
“your military family will be confronted again and again with
forced acceptance of a lifestyle you regard as immoral.”
Perkins predicted the appointment of a
military “czar” to promote the “homosexual lifestyle.”
“All of these undesirable outcomes
will cause a sharp reduction in recruitment,” he added. “We have
a top general and admiral who now say outrageously: If you don't like
it, 'get out!' They are asking for an exodus.”
Perkins' warnings come a day after
Democratic
leaders agreed to forge ahead with a second attempt at repeal after
the Thanksgiving break and the
release of a survey that found that 50 percent of Americans disagree
with the gay ban.