Posted on 06/29/2015 4:26:33 PM PDT by QT3.14
The first general officer to come out as gay following the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 2011 says the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the country makes "a positive difference in many service members' lives" for practical and heartfelt reasons.
"The practical impact is uniformity in the recognition of family," Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Tammy Smith told Miltary.com. "The heartfelt impact is that every family matters, regardless of who you marry."
Smith, who married Tracey Hepner in 2012 at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, was at Brooks Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, as the keynote speaker marking Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month when she received word on Friday that the high court made same-sex marriage the law of the land.
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I would have sworn it was Wesley Clarke.
There will never come a time when one of my kids has to salute a freak like this.
It’s about respect and this demented trash deserves none.
Co-ed barracks now I suppose.
I can’t wait until all the trannies come out in the military. That should create even more “readiness”...no?
The first general officer [says] makes “a positive difference in many service members’ lives”
OK, but a negative influence in almost all the rest of the service members’ lives.
So, to satisfy the sodomy perversion of a very few, you have to pi$$ off all the rest.
What do you do to get the combat action badge now, sniff a fired case?
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
Thomas Jefferson
The heartfelt impact is that every family matters, regardless of who you marry.
B
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‘mo marriage is child abuse.
***I would have sworn it was Wesley Clarke.***
Maybe that is the reason they closed many rest areas on I-40 near Little Rock!
What in the hell has our military turned into?
The United States Army should be embarassed by this “general”; if not outright ashamed. (But of course they are not; the “modern Army” is oh so “modern”, but not so much in a military way ... as they once were.)
She was commissioned as 2LT in 1986. This is pre-Don’t ask, don’t tell....meaning she was most likely asked and most likely lied about her orientation upon entry.
And as an officer, getting a security clearance is an almost automatic requirement. In that era, there were very specific questions about homosexual activity and homosexuality. She most likely lied on that paperwork.
So she has most likely sworn to false statements at least twice. And everybody around her knows it. I’m sure its a great command climate.
>>I can’t wait until all the trannies come out in the military. That should create even more “readiness”...no?<<
Attack that hole! Um, I mean hill!
*Chevy Chase* Ladies, there is nothing to fight about.. NEITHER of you has nor can be Frank! The best you can hope for is Mat!
Definitely not George Washington’s Army!
On Mar. 10, 1778, at Valley Forge, Gen. George Washington approved the dismissal from service of Lt. Frederick Gotthold Enslin for “attempting to commit sodomy” with another soldier.
In the first president’s papers at the Library of Congress is a series of orders with the title, “Head Quarters, V. Forge, Saturday, March 14, 1778.” It includes the following entry,
“At a General Court Martial whereof Colo. Tupper was President (10th March 1778) Lieutt. [Frederick Gotthold] Enslin of Colo. Malcom’s Regiment tried for attempting to commit sodomy, with John Monhort a soldier; Secondly, For Perjury in swearing to false Accounts, found guilty of the charges exhibited against him, being breaches of 5th. Article 18th. Section of the Articles of War and do sentence him to be dismiss’d the service with Infamy.
“His Excellency the Commander in Chief [George Washington] approves the sentence and with Abhorrence and Detestation of such Infamous Crimes orders Lieutt. Enslin to be drummed out of Camp tomorrow morning by all the Drummers and Fifers in the Army never to return; The Drummers and Fifers to attend on the Grand Parade at Guard mounting for that Purpose.”
Being drummed out was the equivalent of a dishonorable dishcarge.
Handbaskets are selling fast.
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