Posted on 02/20/2006 5:28:37 AM PST by Panerai
A group of gay and lesbian veterans will launch a national campaign tomorrow at Harvard to repeal the militarys policy of dont ask, dont tell.
The seven-week, nationwide speaking tour, which will begin at 7 p.m. at the John F. Kennedy School of Governments Starr Auditorium, will feature seven former service members who argue that the law keeps able-bodied Americans from serving in the military at a time when it is desperate to recruit and retain troops because of the war in Iraq.
A lot of people have never known a gay or lesbian person and, as a result, have all sorts of misconceptions about what gays and lesbians are like, and no idea what impact dont ask, dont tell has had on national security, said Alex Nicholson, an Army veteran and founder and director of the Call to Duty Tour.
In 1993, shortly after taking office, President Bill Clinton suspended a Department of Defense policy banning gays and lesbians from the military.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and influential members of Congress, however, opposed Clintons attempt to permanently lift the ban.
The compromise was dont ask, dont tell, under which the military was not to inquire about the sexual orientation of prospective service members, and gays and lesbians were not to reveal their sexual orientation. Those who did or were found out would be subject to dismissal.
I got good news and bad news for you.
The Good news is that your protests for more gays in the military have been heard and acted upon.
The Bad news is that you are leaving for Iran in half an hour to attack their nuclear sites.
Three percent has no business trying to push around the other 97 percent. They should be thankful for "Don't Ask" because they can be left alone. That is really a right in America; the right to be left alone.
Oxymoron.
I'm all for the FIBO policy...Find Out...Boot Out!
I know of a Korean war vet who is a homosexual. It's not an oxymoron.
But, but, but they always say we know a lot of people who are homosexual.
AIDS advocates even tell us that "Anyone can get it," when they want our money. But they say, "It's almost impossible to get it," when they want to push their lifestyle on any and all aspects of society.
If the military is having such a tough time recruiting, opening up the ranks to avowed homosexuals will make it 10 times worse.
these clowns are trying to give the impression that they are "macho" guys & are not a stereotype...wrong. Many years ago I worked on the General Staff & the new protocol officer could have been the precursor for "Queer Eye"!! He flitted around the hallways, giggled and everything was "fabulous"....it to the point that the general "hid him" when he had big wigs in town...
I have nothing against gays as long as they dont lay their perversions on me. I dont care how many times they bend over and take on their partner, why do they insist on telling me about it. Nobody knows they are queer until they advertise it. Dont ask Dont tell sounds like a good idea for every day life too.
You know why they want out??
Because unlike men and women who recognise each other they could be standing next to another queer and not know it themselves , missing out on another chance to get their ashes hauled. They dont recognise each other and that cuts down on their opportunities.
If the military's Don't etc. policy is repealed and isn't immediately replaced with a nohomosexualsnever policy, the military will have taken a giant step to uselessness or alternatively, a giant step to total technicalization and elimination of troops as necessary for anything dangerous.
You are pretty slow arent you. That's the policy until 1993.
It was defacto dont ask dont tell.
Yes the US Military needs fasion designers, artists, actors and other irresponsible sodomists it to "round out" it's full spectrum warfare. //sarcasm
I guess we need the sodomites to deal with the middle eastern homos.
Naturally they also want special power..special priveleges..and extra consideration for promotion.
Their greed and lust for power and tyranny of the minority never diminishes,never abates..in fact when appeased it only gets worse...and always to the detriment of the mission...
They don't care about the military or it's mission
Their mission is always focused upon their own agrandizement...
imo
He's 74 and he miraculously survived the AIDS crisis. Told me he was too busy working in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
It is not a military policy. It is a law of the United States Government, enacted as legislation by Congress. The military merely enforces what the Congress has written.
Wow a whole 7 people. You think the military could get the job done without them? Yep.
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