On his radio program today, Bryan Fischer spent part of a segment discussing an article in USA Today reporting that morale among those enlisted in the Army is low, which he naturally blamed on the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

The article itself reports that the Army began to study morale back in “2009 in the midst of two wars and as suicide and mental illness were on the rise” and mentions nothing about the repeal of DADT, which makes sense considering that the policy wasn’t officially repealed until September, 2011. But Fischer sees right through that charade, explaining that the Army knew that the repeal of DADT was coming and was so worried about its inevitable impact on morale that it started this program to counteract it years before it even happened.

“There is an absolute direct link” between low morale in the military and the repeal of DADT, Fischer asserted. “So the military, starting in 2009, I think they could see this thing coming. I think they were worried about the impact of gays in the military on military morale so they spent $287 million since 2009 trying to pump up the morale of the United States military and it ain’t working!”