Posted on 12/18/2010 6:20:32 PM PST by mandaladon
A special Defense Department working group appointed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates has recommended that the military should “expressly prohibit” heterosexuals from using separate showers, bathrooms and bunking facilities from homosexuals when the repeal of the law banning homosexuals from the military goes into effect.
The working group has also recommended that commanding officers be left with the authority to exempt individuals from using the same showers, bathrooms and living facilities as homosexuals, but only on a “case-by-case” basis.
The House voted earlier this week and the Senate voted this afternoon to repeal the military ban on homosexuals, which has often been referred to as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
The working group’s Nov. 30 report—“Report of the Comprehensive Review of the Issues Associated with a Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’”--concluded that permitting heterosexuals to use separate showers, bathrooms and bunking facilities from homosexuals of the same gender would “stigmatize” homosexuals and be “reminiscent of ‘separate but equal’ facilities for blacks prior to the 1960s.” The working group was co-chaired by Jeh Charles Johnson, the Defense Department’s general counsel, and U.S. Army Gen. Carter F. Ham.
“In the course of our review we heard from a very large number of Service members about their discomfort with sharing bathroom facilities or living quarters with those they know to be gay or lesbian,” said the report. “Some went so far to suggest that a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell may even require separate bathroom and shower facilities for gay men and lesbians. We disagree, and recommend against separate facilities. Though many regard the very discussion of this topic as offensive, given the number of Service members who raised it, we are obliged to address it.”
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So, who knows if one’s TSA molester is straight or gay anyway?
and so it begins......
Forcing this, non military, would be a world wide humanitarian crisis.
Corn for fuel is another example of an error.
The working group must be full of homos.
“We disagree that it would require separate showers” — because we are bound and determined to MAKE straights accept gays, even tho every homosexual, in their heart, knows that it is wrong, according to my friend who is struggling to leave the lifestyle.
This is the most We the People-defiant bunch of jackasses in Congress that I have seen in a long time. They should be run out of town on a rail. January will not come a minute too soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrllCZw8jiM
And they’ll have to eat together, sleep in the same bunks, fire their guns at the same time, look at each other, train together...yada, yada yada.
This can’t end well.
Euro-weenie nations with their ineffectual boutique militaries can pull this stuff off. We can’t
will the military gets aids funding?
You’ll see an exodus of people out of the military over this.
They ought to be lined up and shot.
Exactly what they did before...
Note to self: Buy stock in soap on a rope company.
All I can say is I thank God I’m no longer in the military so they can order me to get involved in these Social experiments that are good for nothing.Espechially the military.
I hate to say this but for your own safety guys, Get out as soon as your enlistment contract ends.
This flies in the face of the USCMJ. Those rules are there for a reason. Liberalism is destroying our country.
This may get me banned, but fragging will have a huge increase. There is NOTHING like a spurned Queen to plot revenge. YHWH have mercy on our nation. We have now jumped the shark completely.
I believe most of the people who were for this will never join the military. They never considered it, and wouldn’t even want to be in it, and aren’t what I would say is the military type. Yet they demanded all these changes even though the military top brass opposed them. I think this is detrimental to our national security.
Guess this means male and female soldiers must shower together as well.
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