Posted on 01/10/2013 8:35:36 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Noting Army flap, Marine Corps orders its spouses clubs to allow same-sex members
By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor
Marine Corps leaders have directed their legal teams to alert spouses clubs at all Marine bases to begin allowing same-sex spouses as members if those social groups want to continue operating on Marine installations, Marine officials confirmed to NBC News Wednesday evening.
In an all-hands memo to legal offices across the branch, the Marine commandant's Staff Judge Advocate warned against discrimination based on sexual orientation, and he specifically mentioned a controversial decision made last month by the officers' spouses club at the Army's Fort Bragg to deny access to the same-sex spouse of a female Army lieutenant.
NBC News reported Dec. 14 that Ashley Broadway, the newlywed wife of Lt. Col. Heather Mack, was blocked from joining the spouses club at Fort Bragg, N.C., sparking accusations from a national military spouses organization that Broadway was being blackballed only because she is a lesbian.
The Marine memo, issued Tuesday, described the Fort Bragg club’s stance as having “caused quite a stir” and added, “We do not want a story like this developing in our backyard,” confirmed Capt. Eric Flanagan, a Marine Corps spokesman.
“The order was pretty much using (the Fort Bragg events) as an example to clarify our policy,” Flanagan said. “We stated that the policy is to be non-discriminatory.
“We don’t control what (the spouses clubs) do. But they get support from the Marine Corps so that they can hold their meetings on base or at Department of Defense facilities. So, in order to do that, they do have to follow Marine Corp policies,” he added.
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It’s the Brass and the legal departments (definately NOT the Grunts). They’re selling the USMC’s soul to feed the beast. Shameful! To the Brass: Does Sodom and Gomorrah ring a bell with you boys?!
Any one over light bird is a politiciian anyway. They have to toe the party line or get sent to Alaska to count snowflakes.
Can you explain to me what is honorable about the UCMJ now permitting homosexual sex and a Marine choosing to engage in such an activity?
What is it about civillian control of the military that you clowns don’t understand? The Marine Corps has no choice but to follow the law. Again, blame this mess on the politicians, not the Marine Corps. When this came down the Commandant came out guns blazing against this. He made his case, the politicians refused to listen. He has no choice but to say aye aye sir and carry out the policy.
I already know what you will reply with next. Your going to say, Then they should resign. That would have been stupid and it would have destroyed the Marine Corps over night.
You did not answer the questions.
The answers?
Let me give you a clue -do leftist politicians decide what is honorable and as such define an honorable Marine?
God, Country, then maybe leftist politicians as long as the first two are observed primarily.
Again, it’s the law and until that law is determined to be unconstitutional the Marine Corps has no choice but to comply. Saying the Mrine Corps has gone to hell is completely ignorant. You have no clue. The Marine Corps will survive because it will continue to hold every Marine to the high standards it has held for the last 235 years.
Again, it’s the law and until that law is determined to be unconstitutional the Marine Corps has no choice but to comply. Saying the Mrine Corps has gone to hell is completely ignorant. You have no clue. The Marine Corps will survive because it will continue to hold every Marine to the high standards it has held for the last 235 years.
Again, it’s the law and until that law is determined to be unconstitutional the Marine Corps has no choice but to comply. Saying the Mrine Corps has gone to hell is completely ignorant. You have no clue. The Marine Corps will survive because it will continue to hold every Marine to the high standards it has held for the last 235 years.
Is your omission by design?
I have yet to question the honor of the Marine Corps YET you keep defending it?
Red Herring...
Just answer the questions Marine.
And cowards all for lying down and taking this from Obama and his merry band of America hating Sodomites without so much as a whimper.
Marine faces court martial for urinating on corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
Published January 16, 2013
| Associated Press
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – A U.S. Marine faces court martial for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and then posing for photos with the corpses.
Court proceedings are set to start Wednesday against Staff Sgt. Edward W. Deptola, who was charged after a video surfaced showing four Marines urinating on three dead men in July 2011.
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