Mrs. Elaine Donnelly

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  This American View radio program which also: Compares and contrasts George Washington's Continental Army with today's military; exposes John McCain's repeated and mistaken defense of "don't-ask-don't-tell" instead of endorsing the present law which says homosexuals are not eligible to be in our military (yes!, that's the law, right now!); and we praise the moral courage of a very nice lady Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center For Military Readiness, for her Congressional testimony opposing the repeal of the law that says homosexuals are ineligible to be in our military.
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  Exclusive Interview: Elaine Donnelly, President, Center

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  During Wednesday's hearing, Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, which opposes repeal of the policy, said that allowing gays to serve openly would drive away more individuals who don't want to serve with gays than the number of service members discharged under "don't ask, don't tell."
  
  A repeal "would impose new, unneeded burdens of sexual tension on men and women serving in high-pressure working conditions, far from home, that are unlike any occupation in the civilian world," she said.

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  The Republicans brought two witnesses opposing gays in the military: Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, and retired Army Sgt.Maj.
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  Lawmakers supporting an end to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" had tough questions for Donnelly and Jones.
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  Donnelly cited a number of reasons for her opposition to gays in the military.She drew a distinction between the law passed by Congress in 1993 banning open service and the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy issued by then-President Clinton to enforce the law.Donnelly said she supports the law but opposes the policy.
  
  Donnelly recommended that recruiters ask enlistees about their sexual orientation when they enter service so that they can be removed if they are gay.Donnelly maintained that nothing in the law prevents recruiters from asking questions about sexual orientation.
  
  Donnelly said straight service members would be exposed to harassment if gay service members were allowed to serve openly.
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  Donnelly said letting gays serve openly in the military would increase the incidents of sexual assault by three times, although provided no reasoning for how she came to this number.

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  Mrs. Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness, will be joined by Sergeant Major (retired) Brian Jones, a highly-decorated soldier and former member of the US Army's elite Delta Force, who served with the Department of Defense in Iraq in 2004.
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  Sergeant Major Jones and Mrs. Donnelly will testify in support of the 1993 law stating that homosexuals are not eligible for military service.The law passed Congress with veto-proof majorities in 1993 and has been upheld as constitutional several times. . . . this may be the only hearing that liberals in charge of Congress will hold before they move to actually repeal the law.Mrs. Donnelly has also alerted America as to the outrageous "perception management" (PM) techniques employed by powerful forces in the radical left-wing "news" media and by fellow left-wing activists who are determined to impose a sexual agenda on the military.
  
  Mrs. Donnelly said that she and Sergeant Major Jones will -- during their testimony before the House Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee -- expose the extent of real damage that will be done to the culture of our military if the current policy is repealed.She said that we cannot stand by and allow the full force of mandatory social engineering to be imposed on our men and women in uniform.

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  Nesby has never spoken to Elaine Donnelly, but has nevertheless attacked her character and motives in a "drive-by declaration" that was mean-spirited, inconsistent with prior testimony, apparently motivated by an admitted egalitarian agenda, and repeated by Barnes seven times in documents filed with the Court.
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  Never mind that Donnelly has never met or talked to Cmdr.
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  That was two months prior to Burns's first telephone call to Elaine Donnelly, and approximately seven months prior to the departure of the carrier Lincoln and publication of the CMR Special Report.
  
  · Kilian has denied knowledge of any problems with Lohrenz' training prior to April 1995, but FNAEB Board records indicate that he had served on a February 1995 Human Factors Board that surely reviewed FRS training scores compiled in 1994.Indeed, if those records were available to Kilian and others in September of 1994, (and they were), the entire case against Donnelly and CMR crumbles:
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  That would mean that Fred Kilian, not Donnelly and CMR, is responsible for the misfortunes that have befallen Lohrenz.
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  But if Lohrenz was forced to fly the F-14, then that alone, not Donnelly and CMR, would account for her failure.
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  5. Attacks on the First Amendment Rights of Elaine Donnelly
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  Stanley Arthur, then Vice CNO, who met with Donnelly three times over a period of four months.
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  · At the last of those meetings, Donnelly was shown a report signed by then-Rear Adm.
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  The Bien Report confirmed that the information Donnelly had presented in her letter to Sen.
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  Donnelly also came to realize that the Navy was not going to do anything about it.
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  Lohrenz and Barnes have argued that since Donnelly is on record in opposition to women in combat, that is evidence of "actual malice."
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  Donnelly is also faulted for conscientiously discharging her duties as a member of the 1992 Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces, and for writing a January 16, 1995, letter to the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, asking for his help in finding out whether allegations of double standards in naval aviation were true or false.
  
  It would seem that Donnelly's First Amendment rights of free speech would be at their peak in all these instances.The Plaintiff and her attorney falsely conclude, however, that Donnelly's stated opinions are proof of "conspiracy and "reprehensible conduct," for which she must be punished with continued litigation.
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  Nor have Elaine Donnelly or her source, Lt.
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  The responses to the Court from Donnelly and Burns have been consistent and truthful throughout.

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  The casualty figures reported for female service members in Iraq should be a major source of concern for policymakers on Capitol Hill, Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR), told Cybercast News Service.
  
  Although it is widely understood that women will be deployed in "harm's way" at the brigade level, existing rules preclude them from being placed "at the tip of the spear" in ground combat, she explained.
  
  Nevertheless, Defense Department officials and the U.S. Army in particular are violating current regulations that require combat battalions to be all male, she said.
  
  Existing rules have been "stretched, re-defined, blurred and disregarded" without congressional authorization to the great detriment of female soldiers, Donnelly maintains.While she ardently supports female participation in the armed forces, Donnelly is opposed to intermixing males and females in combat battalions where unit cohesion is vital.
  
  "The situation is totally out of hand," she said."There are no regulations that have any teeth at all in the army, they are being routinely ignored and Congress is allowing this to happen without exercising any oversight."
  
  However, Donnelly did offer praise for Rep.
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  Hunter essentially ended a 15-year lapse in congressional oversight on the deployment of female service members, Donnelly said.
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  The end result was a report produced through the RAND Corporation that essentially "rubberstamped" U.S. Army practices, Donnelly contends.
  
  The demands and expectations now attached to female service members already are having an impact on family dynamics that should greatly concern policy makers, she continued.
  
  "There is a vast social experiment now underway in the Army, and it's alarming to see how far this administration has allowed it to go," Donnelly argued.
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  But Donnelly is not convinced that the U.S. military is upholding regulations that are designed to safeguard women.She also is concerned about the impact military service is having on family relations.
  
  The instances of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are much higher for women than they are for men, according to the CMR.Moreover, female soldiers suffer from a "great deal of pain and grief" as a consequence of separation from children and other family members, Donnelly said.It is necessary for young mothers to become "emotionally distant" from their children as a survival mechanism that enables them to endure the deployment, she said.
  
  Unfortunately, it is difficult to "bridge the gap" and re-establish relationships when they return home, Donnelly added.
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  The larger issue at work here concerns recent policy changes that now result in women "assuming heavier burdens and greater risks" than at any time in U.S. history, Donnelly said.

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  Elaine Donnelly is the founder and president of the Center for Military Readiness.She has never worn an armed services uniform.
  
  Her organization is part of the religious right's constellation of anti-LGBT groups.
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  After the hearing, the Family Research Council was the first to defend Donnelly and her gay-baiting testimony.
  
  Donnelly told the panel that the "San Francisco left and the ACLU are imposing their agenda on the military."
  
  She opposes "don't ask, don't tell" as well as lifting the ban on lesbian and gay servicemembers.
  
  She testified that banning lesbian and gay servicemembers is necessary, and said military recruiters should ask the sexual orientation of everyone joining.
  
  "It makes no sense for the Department of Defense to forbid routine questions on induction forms that help to determine eligibility for military service," Donnelly said."Such a policy forces the armed forces to assume the risk that persons who engage in homosexual conduct will be inducted or retained in the military."
  
  Donnelly warned of "forced cohabitation with homosexuals" in all branches of the military, "and a burden to people with religious convictions."
  
  "We are not talking about a Hollywood world here," she continued.
  
  Donnelly's rant, which wandered from her written statement, also warned that "sexual conduct would increase threefold" if gays were allowed to serve.
  
  As "evidence" she presented a statement from Cynthia Yost, a former Army medical corpsman who claimed to have been "gang assaulted by a group of black lesbians" in 1974.
  
  "Do we want to have a sexualized atmosphere in our armed forces?"asked Donnelly.
  
  According to Donnelly, the number of gay discharges is insignificant because more servicemembers are discharged for weight violations and for being pregnant.
  
  "You need to think about this issue of HIV positivity," Donnelly to the committee."We have troops who are not deployable because of their HIV status."
  
  Donnelly also disparaged the British military, calling them inferior to the U.S. forces because they are accepting transgender people in the military.
  
  "Our armed forces demands are much higher than other countries," Donnelly said.
  
  Retired Army Major Brian Jones was the final witness.He is also associated with the Center for Military Readiness.
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  Arkansas Democrat Vic Snyder, a physician, lambasted Donnelly, telling her that bringing up HIV is inappropriate.
  
  "By this analysis we ought to recruit only lesbians into the military because they have the lowest incidence of HIV in the country," Snyder said, before calling the rest of Donnelly's testimony "bonkers."
  
  "Ms. Donnelly, are you asserting that our servicemembers are not professional enough to serve with homosexuals?"asked Pennsylvania Democrat Patrick Murphy, a freshman legislator and Iraq veteran.
  
  Murphy also expressed that he was insulted by Donnelly's remarks.
  
  "Ms. Donnelly, when did you decide to come out as heterosexual?"asked New Hampshire Democrat Carol Shea-Porter.
  
  "Ms. Donnelly, are you aware that the Army is allowing 10 percent of new recruits to come in with moral waivers? asked Shea-Porter."Moral waivers" permit recruits with criminal records to enter the services.
  
  "Ms. Donnelly, I don't know why these good people are your targets," Shea-Porter said of gays and lesbians.
  
  Connecticut Republican Christopher Shays, also a co-sponsor, called the current policy "unpatriotic" and "absolutely cruel."
  
  "Would you tell me, Ms. Donnelly, why I should give one twit about [Darrah's] sexual orientation when it did't interfere one bit with her service?"
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  "I respect everyone's military service," Donnelly said.
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  "We have people who serve under conditions of little or no privacy," answered Donnelly.

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  Elaine Donnelly reported for duty Wednesday.She went to a battlefield where most men who agree with her were AWOL.
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  Mrs. Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness, told the truth at risk of ridicule or worse, keeping the faith that telling the truth matters no matter what.
  
  Donnelly was one of two witnesses testifying before a House subcommittee in support of the military's ban on homosexuality.The other three witnesses were pro-gay, as were most of the questions from the lawmakers.
  
  Surrounded by hostile faces in the gallery, hostile faces of the liberal congressmen who dominated the "hearing," and the skeptical faces of reporters from liberal media, Mrs. Donnelly listened stoically while other witnesses trashed her personally during their testimony.Because of the rules, she was not able to respond until called late in the proceedings for her own testimony.
  
  When she got her turn, Mrs. Donnelly carefully laid out the case for the law that Congress passed in 1993 and which has been upheld by multiple courts.She explained that Don't Ask, Don't Tell is not actually the law, but a watered-down policy dreamed up by Bill Clinton's Pentagon staff, something the media continue to get wrong.She also explained why allowing open homosexuality in the military would have a multitude of effects, up to and including a probable increase in sexual harassment and sexual assaults, and a profoundly detrimental effect on the morale of service people who hold traditional values.
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  Milbank began his column by sarcastically introducing Mrs. Donnelly only as someone "who has been working for years to protect our fighting forces from the malign influence of women."
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  Donnelly, who served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Armed Services and a presidential commission examining the role of women in the military, has worked for years promoting policies that support military families, and resisting the liberal campaign to lift the combat exemption for women.
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  Anyone who has seen Mrs. Donnelly under fire knows that she does not do "rage."What she does do is to demolish the other side's arguments with logic and documented materials.She also went out of her way to recognize the service to their country by co-panelists on the other side.Every inch a lady, albeit a lady tough as nails, Mrs. Donnelly does not sink to the level of her opponents.
  
  Milbank even criticized the way Donnelly dressed, saying she was "severe in a black jacket with a flag pin."Well, at least he got the flag pin right.The suit was Navy blue.And she wore pearls and a pink blouse.
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  Milbank also threw in: "At the witness table with Donnelly, retired Navy Capt. Joan Darrah, a lesbian, rolled her eyes in disbelief."
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  Donnelly I admire Mrs. Donnelly.She knew she was going into the lion's den without even a whip and a chair.She knew the animals were hungry,too.

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  But last Wednesday, this foolishness was elevated to an art form when Elaine Donnelly, founder and president of the Center for Military Readiness, took the mic.
  
  I thought she looked familiar, and a quick trip on the intertubes reminded me that Donnelly used to be a water bearer for ERA opponent and conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly.
  
  And since Donnelly has been primarily focused on keeping women out of the armed services, apparently, the queers are just the cherry on her discrimination sundae.
  
  Donnelly spoke in dark tones of gay soldiers spreading "HIV positivity" throughout the troops.She raised the specter of "transgenders in the military."She said lesbians would take pictures of people in the showers.
  
  In a prepared statement, Donnelly alleged that heterosexual soldiers would be on the business end of "inappropriate passive/aggressive actions common in the homosexual community" and raised the prospect of "forcible sodomy."She also said "exotic forms of sexual expression" threaten the cohesion of the ranks.
  
  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the Uniform Code of Military Justice currently addresses said threats to said cohesion.
  
  Donnelly also warned that the "sexualized atmosphere" created by gay service members would have a "devastating effect" and drive out "people who do have religious convictions."
  
  The hearing got heated after Donnelly cited an incident in which she brought up the subject of "a group of black lesbians who decided to gang-assault a fellow soldier."
  
  Donnelly's evidence came in the form of a letter allegedly written by Cynthia Yost, but Donnelly failed to mention that sexual assault reportedly took place in 1974 and that Ms. Yost apparently refused to report it and that the Pentagon has no record of the incident nor of having investigated it.
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  Donnelly responded, "What would you say to Cynthia Yost, the woman on the training exercise assaulted by a group of lesbians?"
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  Rep. Chris Shays (R-Conn.) pointed to a lesbian (a retired captain) testifying and asked Donnelly, "Would you please tell me, Miss Donnelly, why I should give one twit about this woman's sexual orientation, when it didn't interfere one bit with her service?"
  
  Donnelly regrouped with something about "forced intimacy," but Shays shot her down with, "You're saying she has no right to serve because she happens to have a different sexual orientation than you."
  
  There was tons more, but I don't have the space for it.The best aspect of the proceedings was watching the looks of stunned disbelief from just about everybody in the hearing room, not only at Donnelly's comments but from others on her side.
  
  It's safe to say that a war of attrition isn't something confined to the United States military because, sooner or later, Donnelly and her ilk will find themselves confined to the dust bin of history.
  
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  Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, says that in recent weeks there has been a significant ramp-up of the media campaign for repeal of the 1993 law, Section 654.That law states homosexuals are not eligible to serve in the military.Recently a homosexual activist organization known as the Michael D. Palm Center in Berkeley, California, released a document that has widely been described as a study, but according to Donnelly, it is in reality neither objective nor credible.
  
  "It's just another public relations campaign, actually a campaign of perception management.It depends on confusion.It depends on people not paying attention," she continues."Certainly it will not succeed as long as the members of Congress look at this issue as carefully as they did in 1993 when they passed that law."
  
  Donnelly says the Palm Center study attacks the "don't ask, don't tell" policy."About 95 percent of the document attacks [that] policy...," she maintains.
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  "Donnelly apparently hasn't seen the recent studies by top military leaders that state gays serving openly would not impact moral or readiness.She apparently didn't see that the military recently discharged a talented field medic that could have SAVED LIVES just because he was gay.If someone is willing to put their life on the line for this country, I don't care who they're attracted to or what happens in their bedroom, and I see no reason why their service should be rejected.Or, maybe Ms. Donnelly should serve in gay people's stead."

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