[Murkowski, along with 92 other Senators, voted last week to repeal the military’s prohibition of soldiers’ sex with animals]

The dust is finally starting to clear over the rubble of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, and our military is beginning to see what’s on the horizon: a campaign to radicalize the country from the Pentagon out. It started by toppling the barrier to open homosexuality. And it continues with an assault on marriage and religious freedom. Now, in its rush to accommodate the Left, Congress may have inadvertently opened the door to even more perversion. As part of the Defense Authorization bill, liberals are pushing to make sodomy a legal activity under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). In its haste to make gay sex an official part of military life, the Left could be unintentionally repealing the ban on bestiality too. Article 125 of the UCMJ, which Democrats are targeting, clearly states: “Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy.”

Just as Congress haphazardly overturned “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Senate Democrats are once again acting without thinking. While we’d like to believe this is an oversight on their part, it does point to the administration’s pattern of undermining the environment that the military Code was intended to create. Unlike civilian entities, the military operates under stringent moral guidelines so that it can perform its job efficiently. In fact, most people don’t realize that the military still outlaws adultery. These are the kinds of distractions that our troops try to eliminate–not because it’s socially responsible (although that is a good reason), but because it’s physically and emotionally responsible. After all, these aren’t your typical office romances. These are highly trained men and women on the front lines of national security. In the best of circumstances, sexual relationships are not without risk. But in the military, that risk is not to one or two people, but to an entire unit. If Congress insists on relaxing the rules on sodomy and bestiality, will the prohibition on adultery be next?

This is the slippery slope that FRC warned of. For three long years, President Obama has worked to draft the military into his radical social agenda. Obviously, the administration understands that once it breaks down the values and inhibitions of our Defense Department, society will be easier to wear down. Here, the unintended consequence of that push opens the door to an act so vile it’s embarrassing to mention–let alone tolerate. When FRC made the discovery, we sought confirmation from former and current military attorneys. One of those sources, a law professor and former judge advocate, replied that yes, by eliminating Article 125, the Senate would be creating a legal argument for bestiality. This may not have been deliberate, but it’s certainly conceivable from leaders who pay so little attention to the consequences of their extreme social agenda.

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Peter Schweizer’s book, Throw Them All Out, has been a topic of much discussion in Washington, in no small part because of shocking details about how congressmen trade stock based on their private knowledge of how legislation will affect markets. Amazingly, this is completely legal. As I put it in an editorial in the current issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, “At a time when Americans hate Wall Street with the fire of a thousand suns, behavior that would get a bank executive a perp walk and a jail sentence is business as usual in the nation’s capital.”

Now that Schweizer’s book has been getting lots of attention, the Washington Post reports that a bill to ban congressional insider trading that had been languishing is “suddenly popular.” However, it seems not everyone in congress is too happy about taking away one of their lucrative perks. John Carney at CNBC reports New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand wants to radically alter the legislation in some unusual ways . . .

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The “Father of the Constitution,” James Madison, wrote, “If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” Regrettably, tyranny and oppression have already arrived in America in certain sections of the Patriot Act, the TSA’s invasive procedures at our airports and presidential-ordered assassinations of U.S. citizens among other examples. Now, the Congress is poised to violate the Constitution again in the name of the War on Terror.

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has co-authored S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Section 1031 of this bill will allow the U.S. military to capture and detain indefinitely an American citizen on U.S. soil who the President suspects is involved in terrorism. Thus, this bill will deny U.S. citizens basic Constitutional rights such as the right to a trial, to bail, to an attorney, to be presented with the charges against them and other rights and protections afforded to all Americans under the U.S. Constitution.

Furthermore, not only does this bill strip U.S. citizens suspected of being involved in terrorism of their Constitutional rights, Section 1031 also essentially repeals the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 by authorizing the U.S. military to perform law enforcement functions on American soil. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a staunch supporter of this bill, declared on the floor of the U.S. Senate this bill declares all of the United States is now part of the “battlefield,” and he apparently intends for U.S. troops to be engaged on the ground here in America.

Senators McCain and Graham are urging two dangerous proposals that will infringe substantially upon the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and push America closer to a dictatorship under martial law. That is why I congratulate Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) for taking to the U.S. Senate floor recently to challenge Senator McCain and to defend the Constitutional rights of the American people. That is also why I support Senator Paul’s amendment, S. 1062, to strike the offending section, S. 1031, of the National Defense Authorization Act.

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Talk about strange bedfellows!  Rand Paul, Kentucky’s Republican Junior Senator, found himself teamed up yesterday with Senate left-wing Democrats and the ACLU, in a failed attempt to insert an amendment into the massive National Defense Authorization Act, which would have limited the federal government’s power to enforce martial law against American civilians.

Sixteen Democrats and an independent joined with Republicans to defeat an amendment by Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) that would have killed the provision, voting it down with 60 against, and 38 for it; keeping in the controversial provision which allows the military to detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial.

Senator Paul observed that the unamended law would mean that any American citizen suspected of aiding terrorism would get just one hearing, where the military could assert that the person is a suspected terrorist, and then he could be locked up for life, without ever being formally charged.  “I’m very, very, concerned about having U.S. citizens sent to Guantanamo Bay for indefinite detention,” said Sen. Paul.  Illinois Senator Mark Kirk was the only other Republican joining Sen. Paul in his support for the Udall amendment.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina—one of the staunchest opponents of the Udall amendment—had a different take on the need to empower the government to arrest and detain terrorism suspects . . .

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