Alan Steinman, Keith Kerr, and Virgil Richard. Picture: New York Times Posted on 01/11/2004 1:30:21 PM PST by Destro
US generals, admiral come out of the closet - flag fag officers
By John Files
Washington
December 11, 2003
Alan Steinman, Keith Kerr, and Virgil Richard. Picture: New York Times
Three retired US military officers - two generals and an admiral - who had been among the most senior officers to criticise the "don't ask, don't tell" policy for homosexuals in the military, have revealed that they are gay.
The three - army Brigadier-Generals Keith Kerr and Virgil Richard, and Rear-Admiral Alan Steinman of the Coast Guard - said the policy had been ineffective and undermined the military's core values - truth, honour, dignity, respect and integrity.
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By that logic we ought to expell married folks from the military since they represent a "potential" security risk, given the high percentage of those who are married that engage in adulterous affairs?
If these people kept their sexual preferences to themselves during their time in the military, and they performed their duties admirably, then I have no problem with them, in fact I offer them my thanks for choosing to put their lives on the line to defend my freedom.
I'd argue that nature has created gays. I'd argue that it is a genetic predisposition.
The military is not immune from infection. It is better to cut the cancer out than watch the body die.
You probably know more about the topic than I do. But I do know a guy who acknowledges that he is gay because of his inclinations, but is still a virgin (he's a devout Catholic) It is quite possible that these officers are in the same category. For some reason you are assuming that just because they are admitting to be gay they have performed sodomy.
Further, you are also assuming that they knew they were gay when they entered the military as teenagers. It is also possible that they neither we sure of their orientation nor acted upon it when they joined.
Great! Let's find the gene and start working on the cure!
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, and Old French sodomie, from
Late Latin Sodoma Sodom; from the homosexual proclivities
of the men of the city in Gen 19:1-11 Date: 13th century
1 : apparently rather than actually having copulation with a member of the same sex or with an animal
2 : apparently rather than actually having noncoital and especially anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex
You're funny. LOL.
Rear Admiral on the poop deck!
There have been many, probably a dozen or so a year across all branches of military service.
You are unlikely to find oral sodomy charged alone--whether homosexual or heterosexual. It will generally be an add-on offense to a charge of adultery or conduct unbecoming an officer. But yes, it is prosecuted. At least it was when I was in the military.
I damned near had to process one out, myself. A co-pilot of mine. The crew (I 'inherited' this crew) insisted he was gay; tried to give me anecdotal evidence of it to add to his........shall we say.........flamboyant demeanor. I refused to hear it. Looking back, I think I just flat didn't want to deal with it as a young aircraft commander.
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