Christian conservative Tony Perkins on
Wednesday reacted to the news that the U.S. military has released a
handbook to assist transgender service members.
Release of the 71-page manual comes
three months after the Pentagon lifted its ban on transgender people
serving openly in the military.
Perkins, who helms the Family Research
Council (FRC), made his remarks in conversation with Jerry Boykin,
FRC's executive vice president, on the group's Washington Watch
radio program.
“So we see the administration pushing
forward without congressional input on integrating transgenders [sic]
into our nation’s military,” Perkins
said. “What else can this administration do to the military
other than just disband it?”
Elsewhere on the program, he added: “I
probably need to take it back when I said that the only thing worse
the president could do would be to disband the military. Actually,
that might even be better. We’re probably better off without a
military that is not compromised, because we think we have a military
that’s defending our country and able to do that but we have a
military that in many ways is a hollowed-out shell.”
Perkins was sitting next to GOP
presidential candidate Donald Trump last week when the candidate
suggested that he would roll back the policy under his
administration.
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Trump on open transgender military service: We'll do away with
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