“Their idea of civil rights is that we can’t voice our moral beliefs about homosexuality,« LaBarbera notes. »And this is whole problem with treating homosexuality as a so-called civil right,« he says. »You know, the fact is, he has a right to state his beliefs.« And those beliefs are shared by a majority of the people in America, the pro-family advocate contends. »I think, at least half the country — according to a recent Culture and Media Institute poll — agrees with [Pace] that homosexual acts are wrong," he says.

Homosexual activist groups are condemning General Pace and, predictably, attempting to intimidate him for stating the obvious, LaBarbera contends. « If you say that homosexuality is wrong, they come after you, » he says ; « and, ultimately, we have to believe that they are going to want to ban [speaking out against] it, just like is happening in Canada, and England, and other countries. »

The homosexual lobby in the United States « has been very silent about this censorship that’s going on abroad, where we see people not even being allowed to say that homosexuality is wrong,’ the Americans for Truth spokesman observes. »And so,« he asserts, »you’ve got to believe that, under a ’hate-crimes’ agenda, in the long term the gay lobby is going to want to silence people.”

Reportedly General Pace said he bases his opposition to homosexuality on his upbringing. He also told the Chicago Tribune that he supports the military’s « Don’t Ask Don’t Tell » policy, which implements legislation signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994.

The law passed by Congress and signed by Clinton states that the U.S. Armed Services’ prohibition against homosexual conduct « is a longstanding element of military law that continues to be necessary in the unique circumstances of military service. » The legislation also affirms that such conduct is grounds for discharge from the military.