Yes you are absolutely right. We must all pray indeed.

Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch

Please pray for wisdom and courage for responsible US Senators to do what is right in this circumstance.

There are sound clips from Obama’s speech, and hearing these I defy anyone to affirm that he is in any sense of the word a Christian. He is a post-modern secularist with the usual anti-Christian far-left agenda, who at the same time demonstrates his abject ignorance of matters Biblical (and most other things too) time and again.

Murray Adamthwaite

In the UK Lord Waddington, hero man, managed to get the inclusion of a free speech amendment inserted into the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act, clause 58 that now forms section 29JA in the Public Order Act 1986 which read as follows: “In this Part, for the avoidance of doubt, the discussion or criticism of sexual conduct or practices or the urging of persons to refrain from or modify such conduct or practices shall not be taken of itself to be threatening or intended to stir up hatred.”

Sounds reasonable but Brownshirt Gordan and his homosexual chums like Peter Mandelson, Ben Bradshaw, Chris Bryant, Chris Smith, the lesbian Angela Eagle, and many others of the same camp, will have none of it – simply because it does not privilege homosexuals not to have their conduct criticised. They are a privileged breed. Because we are not allowed to even demur towards homosexual practice, we will not be allowed to object to anyone’s sexual behaviour.

If we have to except homosexuality in its entirety we have to accept everything that goes with it, especially its physical expression. As Mark Rabich seems to suggest, the word homosexual, after all, is composed of the word “sexual.”

We all have an orientation towards sexual violence, lying, swearing, scandal, murder, adultery evil, greed, depravity, strife, deceit, malice, gossips, slander etc. These are within human nature but we have never had laws that now actively give protection to and encourage us to give expression to these vile passions.

David Skinner, UK

BTW, I want to correct myself for the term ‘gays in the military’; ‘people who practice homosexual sex working in the military’ I would consider as being more accurate, albeit wordier. The confusion of identity with behaviour in the way we use language seems to me to contribute to giving activists assistance to overlook what homosexuality actually means.

Mark Rabich

But with all due respect in return, unfortunately you really seem to miss the point here. In the military today both men and women serve – but they live in separate quarters (at least for now). Thus the temptation to, and availability of, heterosexual activity – whether forced or not – is lessened considerably.

But when homosexuals are living in close confines with other men (or lesbians with other women) the likelihood of homosexual acts are of course greatly increased – whether forced or voluntary. So rape as such is not even the real issue here. It is about sexual temptation and activity, and how that can undermine the cohesion, discipline and morale of our fighting forces.

It is this problem of the intimacy and explosiveness of human sexuality – with all of its attendant tensions and frictions, including emotional, psychological and medical ramifications – that is the concern here. The military exists for one purpose – to defend a nation. It should not be turned into a hot house of sexual activity, or a means of promoting social engineering.

Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch

If one man rapes another man, obviously there should be an inquiry into it, and that person should be justly punished.

In the same way that if a man in the armed forces raped a woman, there would be an inquiry, and that person would be justly punished.

But the two issues are not synonymous.

Amanda Fairweather

I’m not sure how qualified I am to speak about it, but in short, I am not impressed with Obama’s plan in particular, and socialised medicine in general. But it would take a bit of time to properly explain why, so I will have to write an article on the topic – hopefully some time soon. So stay tuned.

Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch

Strange, but the critics will take a quite different line when it comes to sexual abuse at the hands of the clergy. Let me paraphrase you: “As you will know, rape by the clergy is almost always about the exercise of power – it is committed more often by people who are otherwise clergy. It is nothing to do with the clergy or Christianity.”

Somehow I don’t hear that line coming from the secular left. But they want to use it when the issue is one of homosexuals doing the assaults. Sorry, but I am not buying into your argument here, nor the apparent double standards by so many on your side.

Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch