[Chad Fairbanks]

"Today we received a mixed message, and ironically were rejected on the premise of diversity," Petrie said.

You reap what you sow, Petrie... Ya all asked for "diversity" and "inclusiveness", and you got it...

As Nelson would say: Ha Ha!

[citizen]

The chapter revamped itself this year in an effort to win recognition. It established its base as the Castro district, a predominantly gay neighborhood of San Francisco, after trustees said last year that new chapters have to be "geographic in nature."

Geographic location: A homo district in San Fran. Wow, that helped a lot didn't it.

It's always something with those people, just living isn't enough, they don't seem to be happy unless they are demanding something new every year.

[You Dirty Rats]

I seem to recall that some honorary chapters have been started in the past by female officers inviting WUBAs off campus and in Company 22.

Ping to the family Annapolis Grad.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[trebb]

"I think when they reject us today, they are making their discrimination clear," said Jeff Petrie, who founded the group.

Yep - and when people reject toadstools as not good food, that is also discrimination. Sometimes you have to discriminate between the good and the bad, the healthy and the unhealthy.

[Gingersnap]

""Today we received a mixed message, and ironically were rejected on the premise of diversity," Petrie said."

I have been waiting for this for years! Why would alumni from the Academy NEED a gay chapter? I mean, do they hold wife swaps or discuss STDs?

[trubluolyguy]

Aww c'mon, it IS the Navy after all.(sarcasm)

Don't worry I love the sqids almost as much as the Marines.

[Cowboy Bob]

Why don't they have an alumni association just for female grads - that would cover the lesbian part...

[BIGZ]

The power that officers have over enlisted men is enormous, fear of this power puts the enlisted men at risk. Homosexuals officers have no place in the Service of this country.

A commanding homosexual officer is in the same context as a homosexual Boy Scout leader, homosexual Priest.

[BlessedBeGod]

Petrie, who also serves as secretary of the larger chapter, says Castro members feel more at home in a group run by gay and lesbian alumni.

Now who is prejudiced against whom, here?

[festus]

The one thing I've never understood is why we all swallowed the "all discrimination is wrong" pill. Race I can see.

I shall always discriminate on the basis of gender every time I try to find a lover.

By the liberals model you just have to take the first weirdo to come along.