General Peter Pace's recent "immoral" musings weren't his first time speaking out against the gays. Newsweek reports that Pace used a 2005 speaking event at Wharton express his less-than-tasteful thoughts on homos in the military:

The U.S. military mission fundamentally rests on the trust, confidence and cooperation amongst its members. And the homosexual lifestyle does not comport with that kind of trust and confidence.

In conjunction with their findings, Newsweek also conducted a poll and found that 63% of American civilians and 58% of soldiers support openly gay men and women serving the country.

Meanwhile, former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey spent the weekend in Santa Fe, NM, where he used an HRC-endorsed speech to admonish the chairman of the Joint Chiefs:

Gen. Pace’s remarks were so terribly unfortunate, not only because that’s what he believes but the notion that don’t ask, don’t tell actually encourages people to be less than honest, less than open, less than transparent.

And, really, isn't it all about transparency?

For his part, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates remarked on NBC's Meet the Press:

I think I'll leave it at the fact that I don't think this is an issue where personal opinion has any place.I think we should just move on from this point... I think the American people are lucky to have him as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Oh, yes! We feel terribly lucky to have this terrible homophobe leading our military! Yippee! The only way it could be better would be if he dropped a nuke in some country populated only by brown people! Then it'd be a dream!!