"Was it good for you, Daisey?
Posted on 12/13/2011 6:09:31 AM PST by NYer
WASHINGTON, DC, December 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - According to the Pentagon, if a provision in the defense authorization bill repealing a military ban on sodomy and beastiality is passed, beastiality would still remain a prohibited activity based upon a separate, general provision.
The measure to remove the bans was included in the Senate version of the defense bill, which passed 93-7 last week. According to USA Today, one Congressional aide reports that it is unlikely to survive this evening’s conference between House and Senate leaders which will reconcile the two competing versions of the legislation.
If it does pass, however, Article 125 will be removed from the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The article states: “Any person ... who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy.”
The proposed change has met with public protest from conservative groups, presidential contender Michele Bachmann, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
The Pentagon responded to the outcry last Friday with a statement explaining that if Article 125 is removed, beastiality would still be covered under a general prohibition against any action “prejudicial to good order and discipline.”
While this reassurance may pacify PETA, some prominent conservative figures say it doesn’t address concerns about sodomy.
Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, pointed out that the general provision that the Pentagon is now appealing to as a standing ban on beastiality “used to be presumptive against homosexuality.”
He added that removing the ban on homosexual behavior in the military raises issues of “order and discipline” particularly pressing for those who would be forced to bunk and shower with openly gay members of the same sex.
According to LaBarbera, a provision enjoining “order and discipline” is in danger of becoming meaningless if it can no longer be interpreted to prevent such situations.
“Once you take away the boundaries, there’s really nothing stopping further sexual license,” he said. “It turns the military into a liar because the military has all sorts of statements about upholding virtues and morals and now they have to pretend that they can do that while basically mainstreaming a perversion.”
Arthur Goldberg, co-director of Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing, an organization that helps members of the Jewish community who are struggling with homosexual inclinations, expressed similar concerns about the “slippery slope” effect of legitimizing homosexual acts.
Advocates for acceptance of beastiality, such as prominent Princeton professor Peter Singer, point to the acceptance of homosexuality as an important precedent, Goldberg said.
Ping!
You just knew there had to be some. I wonder whom they tend to vote for?
Well, at least midshipmen no longer have to hide it.
Oh there are no Airborne Rangers in the Navy!
Oh there are no Airborne Rangers in the Navy!
Cause they sit around on boats
Doing who knows what to goats
Oh there are no Airborne Rangers in the Navy!
Obamaworld
My son, an Eagle Scout, has hemophilia.
Leftists just want to take us back to the old days of the ancient world where paganism and barbarity like this flourished.
The sheep may enjoy the “special” attention. I’ve never heard one complain.
The sheep may enjoy the “special” attention. I’ve never heard one complain.
Can of baby copperheads.
Why does the senate need a bill when the president issued an executive order last week? Senate providing cover for the ceo?
Well. good for PETA.
A code like this goes back to the articles of war read to British Battleship crews in the 1700’s.
Sodomy is a sick perversion.
"Was it good for you, Daisey?
Buggery “comyttid with mankynde or beaste” was first made a capital crime by Henry VIII in 1533.
There was a lesser known hanging in the British navy, logged as a crewman having “sodomized the Captain’s goat, and stealing the red ribbon about its throat”, which gives some pause.
And in the Aubrey–Maturin series, by Patrick O’Brian, there was a charming liberalism. A hilarious conversation between Jack and Stephen about a sailor due to be hanged because he sodomized a goat. Jack wishes those things weren’t reported and Stephen suggests putting the sailor and the goat ashore, but not the same shore, “for morality’s sake.”
Beastiality--bad.
Sodomy--good.
Glad that's all been cleared-up. Thank you Senator McCain. I hope your daddy and grand-daddy are proud of you.
Since sodomy includes oral sex, it’s way past time that particular rule was fixed. Why have a rule when most likely every single member of the armed forces has broken it?
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