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Gay students graduate openly at military academies (barf)
seeBS News ^ | May 27, 2012 | Michael Hill

Posted on 05/27/2012 5:39:34 PM PDT by kevcol

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Gay students at America's military service academies are wrapping up the first year when they no longer had to hide their sexual orientation, benefiting from the end of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that used to bar them from seemingly ordinary activities like taking their partners openly to graduation events.

For the first time, gay students at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis were able to take a same-sex date to the academy's Ring Dance for third-year midshipmen. The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., officially recognized a club for gay students this month. And gay cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., are relieved they no longer have to worry about revealing their sexuality.
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Official recognition by the Air Force school in May of the social club Spectrum means gay students there won't have to meet underground anymore.

Students and gay alumni also say the repeal is creating professional benefits by opening doors to mentorship possibilities. Being open about their orientation gives students and experienced military personal one more common experience that can foster a mentoring relationship, they said.
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At West Point, the alumni gay advocacy group Knights Out was able to hold the first installment in March of what is intended to be an annual dinner in recognition of gay and lesbian graduates and cadets. Cadet Kaitlyn Kelly was among the dozens of cadets who attended the privately sponsored dinner. The 22-year-old Chicago resident was finally able to openly introduce her civilian girlfriend at an event marking 100 days before graduation.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dadt; fags; homosexualagenda; military; militaryacademies; moralabsolutes
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...and the perversion of the Military marches on.
"mentoring opportunities"? - yah, I'll bet.
Nothing is sacred to these deviants,
even Iwo Jima has been disgraced in their
"celebration" logos/t-shirts/posters:

1 posted on 05/27/2012 5:39:44 PM PDT by kevcol
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To: kevcol

Can a cadet bring his five fiancees to the dance? What if is his date is his stepsister? Will the “tolerance” crowd support him?


2 posted on 05/27/2012 5:46:27 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: kevcol

america = over


3 posted on 05/27/2012 5:48:34 PM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: kevcol
Has this crap hit VMI yet? Anyone know?

/johnny

4 posted on 05/27/2012 5:51:39 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: jtal

Not just America.

It is game over for all of civilization.

I told my children to never have children of their own; the wolrd is going to be a vile cesspool for centuries to come.


5 posted on 05/27/2012 5:52:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: kevcol

Do you get a ribbon for cornholing?


6 posted on 05/27/2012 5:53:42 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Army Air Corps

Gay, like so many other con and PR jobs on the sheeple is just another word for Queer.


7 posted on 05/27/2012 5:54:12 PM PDT by oldtimer
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To: kevcol

Throughout history, culture and the military have dealt with queers. Darwinism tends to work in unanticipated ways both in the barracks and on the battlefield.


8 posted on 05/27/2012 5:54:50 PM PDT by texican01
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To: oldtimer

Yes, the homosexuals are so proud of their chosen behaviour that they hide behind euphemisms for it.


9 posted on 05/27/2012 5:58:06 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: kevcol

The day the DADT repeal became law was the day I began recommending AGAINST military service for young people in my circle of friends and family.

The military was the last group standing vs. the rapid perverting of American culture. No more.


10 posted on 05/27/2012 6:00:41 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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To: wagglebee

Moral absolutes ping.


11 posted on 05/27/2012 6:03:57 PM PDT by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini--nevertheless, Vote Santorum!)
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To: Army Air Corps

It is a sickness. On Memorial Day weekend... so sad.


12 posted on 05/27/2012 6:10:50 PM PDT by vortigern
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To: kevcol

Another institution soiled by Demorats.


13 posted on 05/27/2012 6:13:57 PM PDT by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves)
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To: kevcol

First, the subjects in your painting have too much clothes. When homosexuals march or plant flags they’re more colorful and less dressed.

Secondly - from seemingly ordinary activities - doesn’t include the mental illness that is homosexuality. There isn’t a “gay” gene, but their is an environmental, psychosocial or chemical reason for homosexuality. Instead of treating it we’re cultivating it.

Imagine as a therapist a client comes to you indicating that they love to stick things in their rectum. Do you call them sane and send them on their way?


14 posted on 05/27/2012 6:14:01 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: kevcol
The title should read, "Gays graduate conspicuously"... not "openly". This has been about being uniquely absurd and using "in your face" techniques to get special recognition for unearned merit.
15 posted on 05/27/2012 6:14:01 PM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: JRandomFreeper
As Stuart Mackenis, a spokesman for Virginia Military Institute, said, "We have the diversity the whole world has. We don't have a club now, be we could soon." LINK
16 posted on 05/27/2012 6:14:41 PM PDT by kevcol
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Students and gay alumni also say the repeal is creating professional benefits by opening doors to mentorship possibilities. Being open about their orientation gives students and experienced military personal one more common experience that can foster a mentoring relationship

Uh...read that again, and understand what it REALLY means.

17 posted on 05/27/2012 6:15:15 PM PDT by montag813
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To: oldtimer

Yeah...you’re right. “Gay”, “queer”, “homosexual”, etc are all words they use interchangeably (basically like we do with “straight” and “heterosexual”). Do you really think people don’t know that “gay” is used to refer to homosexuals though and that you needed to tell us?


18 posted on 05/27/2012 6:17:08 PM PDT by GetTheLibsOut
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To: kevcol

As an AF Academy graduate (Class of “77), I can honestly.....with great sadness......say that for the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my alma mater.

Deeply, deeply ashamed.


19 posted on 05/27/2012 6:22:29 PM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: kevcol

Officers, to join the elite, political regulators after service. I’d have never guessed. Have fun. Enjoy the slide.


20 posted on 05/27/2012 6:23:27 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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