Gay rights activist protest military leaders gay remarks

Gay rights activists demonstrated outside the Times Square Army recruiting center in Manhattan on Thursday to denounce recent comments made by a senior U.S. military official.

New Jersey's former gay Governor James McGreevey lead members of 'ACT UP New York', an AIDS coalition, and other groups as they protested remarks made by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace.

"He's chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and ironically, his statement was a blessing in so far as it ripped apart the façade of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell', 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' at it's core says gays are second class citizens. If you're truthful as to who you are, you'll be discharged," said McGreevey.

While speaking to the Chicago Tribune Monday, Pace called homosexual acts, "immoral" and said the United States was "not served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral."

Now he is basically eating his words.