[autumnraine]

I’m afraid at the risk of being totally flamed, I agree.

I have known some manly gays and even manlier lesbians. Some I’ve seen had a few men running from their wrath.

[swarthyguy]

In the spirit of Thomas Pynchon’s SchwarzKommandos, select squads of all gendered individual may make for some real motivated soldiers against Jihadis.

And considering the female denizens of say, Northhampton MA, or the male habitues of a bar called the Ramrod Room, somehow I see the jihadis getting totally perplexed before their moment arrives.

Historically, the city of Thebes had a legion comprised of pairs of male lovers who fought, rather succesfully, until Alexander of Macedon defeated them, and absorbed the remnants into his army.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

That's the bottom line. If someone is incapable of taking, “No,” for an answer, they have no business serving no matter who or what they are. I can't believe all homosexuals are rabid, slobbering sex addicts who would rape another human being against their will.

If we've got rapists of any orientation serving in the military, they need to go which brings me full circle to my original point — risky behavior of any kind means risks to others who don't need that burden on top of the risks they are already taking on our behalf.

When you're up to your elbows in blood, it's no time to be worrying about whose it is.

[ExTxMarine]

I think people miss the whole point here: homosexuality is about SEX! They want to live their lives through their sex style - this is no way to live! There is more to life than sex! The military might and security of the US is NOT a place to experiment with questionable social injustices!

Now picture this, you have 125+ hard bodied, sweaty, young, sexually active Marines all living, showering and sleeping together and you don’t think they “care” if one or more of those in that group are gay? You are WRONG! You shower within six (6) inches of the guy next to you! When I was in, the kwansit huts and most field crappers had no separator walls! There is very little “personal” time in the Military and NONE during boot camp and field operations. Men are not allowed to have females in their barrack rooms to avoid things “getting out of control,” so what is going to stop these guys? Where is the equality in that?

While in the Corps, at Camp Lejeune, we had three Marines get drunk out of their minds and two of them decided to rape their buddy in 1991! Two other Marines walked in on the situation and began to beat these two half-to-death! Before we could stop the beatings, several more Marines jumped in to the fray! These two guys barely survived to get their Court Martial!