Posted on 06/15/2016 8:31:52 AM PDT by reaganaut1
In the latest and perhaps decisive battle over the role of women in the military, Congress is embroiled in an increasingly intense debate over whether they should have to register for the draft when they turn 18.
On Tuesday, the Senate approved an expansive military policy bill that would for the first time require young women to register for the draft. The shift, while fiercely opposed by some conservative lawmakers and interest groups, had surprisingly broad support among Republican leaders and women in both parties.
The United States has not used the draft since 1973 during the Vietnam War. But the impact of such a shift, reflecting the evolving role of women in the armed services, would likely be profound.
Under the Senate bill passed on Tuesday, women turning 18 on or after Jan. 1, 2018, would be forced to register for Selective Service, as men must do now. Failure to register could result in the loss of various forms of federal aid, including Pell grants, a penalty that men already face. Because the policy would not apply to women who turned 18 before 2018, it would not affect current aid arrangements.
“The fact is,” said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, “every single leader in this country, both men and women, members of the military leadership, believe that it’s fair since we opened up all aspects of the military to women that they would also be registering for Selective Services.”
The Supreme Court ruled in 1981 that women did not have to register for the draft, noting that they should not face the same requirements as men because they did not participate on the front lines of combat.
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What’s YOUR problem???
YOU stop replying, and maybe it’ll end.
STOP REPLYING.
***Any real man in the Senate and House will be against this. ***
Well take a good look at this thread. The Congress and Senate aren’t the only ones lacking real men.
The same ones on here screaming about women getting what they deserve aren’t exactly “manly.”
And the destruction of the family continues. And we’re supposed to believe these knuckleheads on here are conservative.
Pssh.
***Tell that to my wife. You’ll give her a good laugh.***
Well geez, I’m sorry we can’t go back to the “good ‘ol days” where your wife couldn’t vote and you could treat her like property.You must be so disappointed.
Well now, you might get the chance to see her sent to the front lines against her will so you don’t have to deal with a pesky, unfair divorce.
I’d have to problem drafting millions of American feminists and sending them to fight the Muslims in the Middle East. Then they can find all about what rape culture and patriarchy are really like.
They wanted equality, now it is coming around to bite them in the a$$.
Feminists of “generation wimp” would use the line from Demolition Man...”we’re not trained to deal with violence!”
and other feminists will do what they do today, get pregnant, get redeployed to rear, have abortion.
***A nation that sends it’s women to fight it’s wars is not fit to be called a nation.***
And the “males” calling for our nation’s women to fight it’s wars are not fit to be called men.
***Yes, the feminazis have harmed both men and women greatly, but the answer to that isn’t to up the ante with more harmful (and downright dangerous) insanity.***
A voice of reason.
***Nor do I but the only way the nonsense ends is for the idiots to actually experience the consequences of their poorly thought out actions.***
Please stop talking. You’re making all men sound like pigs.
***Seems like a lot of bitter divorced men are chiming in on this thread salivating at the thought of women dying on the front lines.***
Or boys with “mommy issues.”
Never thought of that.
***Then tell your fellow women to stop voting for Democrats.***
Tell your fellow men to stop making babies out of wedlock with 5 or 6 different women, move out of Mama’s basement, quit laying around on their ass, and get a job and take care of their kids. Tell them to stop leaving their wives and kids and never paying child support.
Our am I hitting to close to home.
I see you came on this thread after I had left. But you’re doing very well!
***Let them see the consequences of their demands. They’re like children. A child wants to touch that hot plate, etc.***
My God do you have kids? A child wants to touch a hot plate? WTH are you talking about?
Boy this article and to have brought out the women haters and now apparently child abusers.
I never realized how many sick people were on this site. I’m just about done.
The NOW gang generally has a membership of 150,000 women. Yet, you would think from reading the comments here that the entire population of women are rabid, radical feminists doing menstrual extraction and growing a mustache.
The stupidity is not just consigned to the libs...
There are some good people on this thread. Some have sent me private messages of support. You’re not alone. You’ve run into some bitter divorced guys - they used to be more numerous in the past - and they want to see their ex-wives drafted (they’re probably all too old!) Some even want to see their daughters drafted, apparently; you can’t get more twisted than that!
Hang in there.
Tell your stupid fellow men to quit getting women knocked up, running off their responsibilities as parents, smoking dope, getting drunk, making inappropriate passes at women, slaughtering each other all over the planet and privately adoring abortion because it gets them out of a fix.
See? Two can play at moronic stereotypes.
***I have a daughter and a son who just joined the marines and he said how women are treated differently. ***
Your entire comment here seems to say a few things. First, you seem to favor your son. And second, you didn’t teach your children the difference between men and women. And third, you don’t have much influence over your daughter, probably because of the partiality you show your son.
Did I miss anything?
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