WASHINGTON, March 23, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, a Marine veteran, released the
following statement after an initial review of the Department of
Defense's new transgender military policy:
"President Trump is keeping his pledge to end the Obama era of
social experimentation in our nation's military. In the fall
of 2016, I co-moderated a veterans townhall meeting where candidate
Donald Trump was asked how he would
handle social engineering and political correctness being forced on
the military. He responded saying, 'We are going to get
away from political correctness.' The revised personnel
policy announced today does exactly that – it moves the
military away from political correctness and puts the focus on the
military's mission: preparing to fight and win
wars.
"President Trump is moving the military away from the crippling
policies of the Obama era that left our nation's defenses at its
lowest levels of readiness since before WWII. He recognizes
that the last thing we should be doing is diverting tax payer
dollars from mission-critical training to funding for controversial
gender reassignment surgeries and transgender sensitivity training
for service members. The president is keeping his promises
and advancing policies essential to keeping our military strong and
our country safe," concluded Perkins.
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin,
former U.S. Army Delta Force
commander and current Family Research Council executive vice
president, offered the following reaction:
"It pleases me that our commander-in-chief is more focused on
military readiness than on appeasing special interest groups,"
concluded Boykin.
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