Hillarysworld

Breaking the deafening silence on the right over the "Don't Ask" repeal vote, a potential 2012 candidate for Senate from Virginia wants to ban gays from the National Guard:

Following this weekend's vote by the Senate to allow gays to openly serve in the military, Del. Bob Marshall (R-Prince WIlliam) said he is drafting a bill for the 2011 legislative session that would ban them from serving in the Virginia National Guard.

"This policy will weaken military recruitment and retention, and will increase pressure for a military draft,'' Marshall said. "After 232 years of prohibiting active, open homosexuals from enlisting in our military, President Obama and a majority in Congress are conducting a social experiment with our troops and our national security...In countries where religions and cultures find homosexual acts immoral, the Obama administration's repeal policy will work to the detriment of all American troops in securing local cooperation with our nation's foreign policy goals."

I don't know this guy, does anyone here know him?  From what I understand, the National Guard is under state control unless/until they are federalized.  So how does that work?  And also, the Pentagon Report doesn't mention the Coast Guard at all, I think they are under the Dept. of Homeland Security now.   Does the repeal of DADT affect them as well?