...OK, it's fair and appropriate to question his qualifications-if it is thought that what he has done is m=not sufficient. Let's talk about his resume in relation to other, past secretaries going into the job. We can talk about his background in relation to others who might have been candidates for the job...
Looking at the flurry of mid-level DoD management jobs he has rushed through in the past two years, it is reasonable to assume that he was being fast-tracked for higher office.
...However, please realize that it is doubtful that this thread would even exist it he were not gay...
Agreed.
...It is permeated with the implication that Obama appointed him because he is gay, and or he can't do the job for that reason...
Mostly that he is Gay.
Vast numbers of your fellow Americans see homosexuals as horrible examples and, to be honest, un-clean, both spiritually and otherwise.
...That is what I object to...
Yes. That is understood.
...There is no information to support either assumption.
Oh, let's see...
An extraordinary fast-tracking tour-de-force through the DoD in a junior-executive capacity, beginning in Obumble's second term, when he no longer has to worry much about Public Opinion...
Followed by the idea that 3% of our population identifies as some Gay-ish permutation or another, while the other 97% identify as Straight...
Followed, in turn, by the idea that 97% of the candidate-field would have been Straight, but that one of the 3% was chosen...
Followed by lack of trust which the currently President has engendered, with vast numbers of Americans, attributable to his soft stance on Illegal Aliens, Gays, etc...
Followed by the current President's reputation for Rule by Imperial Decree (EO), bypassing Congress, and undertaking Social Engineering by personal fiat...
Followed by Fanning's publicly-stated intent to re-mold the military to accommodate Gays...
Well...
Add-up all that Circumstantial Evidence, and those oh-so-Convenient Coincidences, and distrust of this President, and...
Hard evidence pretty much becomes irrelevant, when the deck is stacked
that badly in favor of The Assumption...
Especially when Hard Evidence would be damned-near impossible to obtain...
Consequently...
Folks begin to settle for the DoD approach, when they're still not crystal-clear about threat-vectors and content...
They start dealing in well-grounded speculation... an ad hoc Enemy Intentions Desk.
Entirely understandable, and, in all likelihood, dead on target.