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June 20, 2023

The Army’s top sergeant is all in on defending ‘Pride’

By Andrea Widburg

One of the most distasteful and worrisome things in Biden’s America is the military’s obsession with the LGBTQ issue. That obsession took human form recently when Sergeant Major Michael Grinston, the Army’s top non-commissioned officer, spent time over the course of two days doing Twitter battle with those who think that the military really needs to get its mind out of the troops’ underpants and start focusing on readiness.

It started when the 82nd Airborne explained that it would go all in on “Pride” celebrations. And yes, I, too, find it ironically amusing that the word “dignity” works its way into a celebration that is too often utterly lacking in dignity, given that it celebrates the way bedroom behavior has emerged into America’s streets and elementary schools:

(Note, please, that the 82nd Airborne’s tweet recommends books for the teens in your LGBTQ military life.)

Many people felt that a military unit dedicating a couple of weeks to reveling in sexual orientation and “identity” was a bad look:

Well, that’s to be expected on Twitter. That’s how free speech, now that Elon Musk has restored it, works. What wasn’t to be expected was that Grinston would dedicate more than a minute of his time to defending the 82nd Airborne’s Pride observations:

Okay. Sure. He gets one comment. After all, thanks to Biden, the military’s highest and best purpose is LGBTQ satisfaction.

The thing is, though, that Grinston didn’t stop with one comment. Instead, when he got pushback, Grinston spent two days monitoring and challenging the comments.

WND has other examples of Grinston’s interactions. Apparently, what finally got Grinston’s nose back to the military grindstone was a tweet from someone claiming to be an Army Special Operations Forces veteran, who “criticized Grinston for spending time to combat individual Twitter comments instead of ‘making sure … soldiers don’t need food stamps.’”

Grinston was never rude or abusive, nor was he engaging in a non-stop Twitter war. However, it is obvious that he spent two days monitoring the thread and stepping in periodically to defend the Pentagon’s LGBTQ focus. That in itself is just wrong. The military’s purpose is to win wars and, as the highest non-com officer, his time should be focused on that, not on making LGBTQ people feel good about themselves.

Back in the day, when homosexuality was illegal, a violation of the military code, and a social death sentence, having homosexuals in the military was an open door to blackmail. It made sense, under those circumstances, to exclude homosexuals from military service. And when homosexuality became legal and celebrated, that risk vanished.

I have no opinion (because I have no knowledge) about whether open homosexuality has affected unit cohesion and military readiness. What I do know, though, is that transgenderism is a mental illness, so nothing good can come from embracing so-called “transgender” people in the military.

I also know that a military that dedicates a month and its officers’ energy to celebrating and defending what is, statistically speaking, a deviant/minority sexuality, is not the way to win wars or even to keep troops alive.

Image: The military celebrates its troops’ sexuality. Department of Defense image.

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