Tony Perkins: if DADT is repealed soldiers will bail and we'll need the draft

Desperation is setting in for the professional bigot set. Tony Perkins can't help himself, painting the majority of soldiers as so homophobic that they will leave in droves if the colleagues they either know or think they are gay are able to serve openly. He earns bonus points for tossing out the race card. Via Right Wing Watch:

Barack Obama is opposed to the draft as a matter of principle, to be sure. So are most politicians in both parties. 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.

...The military is not a red state/blue state institution. It unifies our country. It draws its dedicated members from all regions. Still, it is no secret that the military is a socially conservative institution. It recruits heavily from rural areas in the South, the Midwest, and the Inter-Mountain states.

In our larger cities, black and Hispanic recruits are encouraged to consider the military - which has historically been a great ladder of achievement for racial and ethnic minorities.

These are the very areas and groups who have been most resistant to the demands of the homosexual lobby. These are the very regions and groups who have rallied to our side whenever we put a defense of marriage initiative on the ballot

If these regions and groups do not enlist in our all-volunteer force, President Obama will be driven to the place he does not want to go: the military draft.