Gays In The Military (Puke alert)

Boston Globe ^ | August 28, 2002

[robowombat]

Not wanting to jeopardize $328 million in federal funding, Harvard Law School has decided to end the official ban it imposed on military recruiters because of the services' discrimination against gay men and lesbians. With the US Defense Department now enforcing a six-year-old law against such recruitment bans more strictly than before, the law school's principled stand in favor of nondiscrimination threatened to cost all Harvard schools their largesse from Washington.

[robowombat]

The Globe continues to be perturbed over the reluctance of the military to become a Club Queer.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Without a strong training program for officers and recruits, harassment is all too common. Often, male or female soldiers who experience it are reluctant to report it, for fear it will lead to a dismissal action against them.

There is no training program strong enough for me to approve of buggery within the ranks of my unit.

There's a lot of buggery in the ROK Army. I walked into a shower once in a Korean Army post I was temporarily assigned to and found a couple of little Korean troops going at it. I said 'What the hell!?'. They looked at me wondering what my problem was and didn't even miss a beat.

I had to find somewhere else to shower. If I was subjected to this every day, I'd lose my mind.

Maybe the egalitarian ideal of 'gays in the military' appeals to the swishy newsroom of the Boston Globe, but in practice, it's absolutely repulsive and a detriment to good order and discipline.

[USNA74]

"In theory, this compromise - adopted by former President Clinton - was supposed to allow homosexuals to go on serving their nation, as they always have, without obliging unit commanders to deal with service members who come out of the closet. Judging by the steadily increasing numbers of service members discharged each year for being uncloseted homosexuals, however, the policy is not working."

The logic here is lost on me -- because more homosexual military members are kicked out, the "don't ask don't tell" policy isn't working??? Well, just maybe there are more homosexuals choosing to "tell" than before. I won't even begin to theorize why. Not worth going there.

[SunStar]

Not wanting to jeopardize $328 million in federal funding, Harvard Law School has decided to end the official ban it imposed on military recruiters because of the services' discrimination against gay men and lesbians.

Bwahahahahahah!!!!!!

[joesnuffy]

Ya gotta watch it when you're among those "rear eschelon" types...

[HumanaeVitae]

How about the same policy for schools that train doctors how to be abortionists? No $$ if you teach abortion.