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New Course by Royal Navy: A Campaign to Recruit Gays
NY Times ^ | February 22, 2005 | SARAH LYALL

Posted on 02/21/2005 8:34:00 PM PST by neverdem

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1 posted on 02/21/2005 8:34:05 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem
Well, Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty did describe the 'Traditions of the Royal Navy' as "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash".

So9

2 posted on 02/21/2005 8:36:06 PM PST by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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To: neverdem

"Join the Gay-vy!"


3 posted on 02/21/2005 8:37:04 PM PST by SquirrelKing (I caught you a delicious bass.)
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To: neverdem

Woo Hoo Mr. Burns..I am going to Great Britain..

4 posted on 02/21/2005 8:39:22 PM PST by BerniesFriend
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To: Servant of the 9
It said, too, that one strategy may be to advertise for recruits in gay magazines and newspapers.

They could also retrofit the ships with bathhouses.

5 posted on 02/21/2005 8:39:28 PM PST by skip_intro
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To: neverdem

Woo Hoo Mr. Burns..I am going to Great Britain..

6 posted on 02/21/2005 8:39:37 PM PST by BerniesFriend
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To: BerniesFriend

crazy computer..don't know why it doubled up like that..


7 posted on 02/21/2005 8:40:37 PM PST by BerniesFriend
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To: neverdem

Is this supposed to make their enemies fear or respect them???


8 posted on 02/21/2005 8:41:56 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: SquirrelKing; Servant of the 9

LOL!

I'm curious about what are their policies on HIV/AIDS and emergency blood transfusions.


9 posted on 02/21/2005 8:43:16 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: SquirrelKing; neverdem; John O

Let's all sing a rousing chorus of the Village People's "In the Navy!"

(geez)


10 posted on 02/21/2005 8:45:42 PM PST by andie74 (Well, will you do me a favor then? Can you bring me my chapstick?)
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To: neverdem; MadIvan

How times change. Queen Victoria would defintely not be amused. Oscar Wilde was born 100 years too early.


11 posted on 02/21/2005 8:45:45 PM PST by xJones
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To: neverdem

You can't go anywhere these days to escape these perverts.

Buggery in the schools, in the streets, and on the high seas.

Why can't they just shut up about it?


12 posted on 02/21/2005 8:45:49 PM PST by Loyalist (Please visit this fine Catholic lady's blog: fiatmihi.blogspot.com)
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To: neverdem
encouraging them to enlist and has pledged to make life easier when they do.

Join the Navy and....

Nahhh! Never mind. I don't want to get banned tonight.

13 posted on 02/21/2005 8:46:13 PM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: neverdem

Thus the great Royal Navy morphs into the pink fleet. Osama and the gang must be laughing and tossing turbans in the air now. But hey - let's give three cheers for the great defender of "freedom" Tony Blair, the ruler of Cool Britannia! MTV special coming up!


14 posted on 02/21/2005 8:47:11 PM PST by Bogolyubski
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To: neverdem

I guess Britain's days of having perhaps the second or third best military in the world are numbered. And I don't mean that the presence of homosexual per say will do it, but rather this whole mindset that deems it necessary to actively recruit them and make them feel comfortable. You'd think the military would have other things on their mind.


15 posted on 02/21/2005 8:48:49 PM PST by Aetius
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To: neverdem

This means we will get a Canadian sailor in the Village People!


16 posted on 02/21/2005 8:48:51 PM PST by Navy Patriot (I'm gonna hear it for this.)
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To: neverdem

"Until a European court ruled in 1999 that Britain's ban on gays in the military violated European human-rights laws, the navy, along with the rest of the country's military, followed a no-exceptions policy of dismissing service men and women who were found to be gay, often after long and intrusive investigations....But after the court ruling, it had no choice but to reverse its policy. "

Am I reading this right? You mean to tell me that EU membership requires a sovereign nation like the UK to obey the mandates of a European Court? WTF? I know I shouldn't be surprised, but I admit that I am. I had no idea the British had given up this much sovereignty.


17 posted on 02/21/2005 8:54:34 PM PST by Aetius
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To: neverdem

Arrr swab the deck honey!


18 posted on 02/21/2005 9:03:23 PM PST by grizzly84
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To: neverdem

From reading the posts here, and elsewhere, the air seems to be slowly going out of "they will cause a lack of cohesion" balloon. It is gratifying that objective evidence seems to be absorbed even in the most impermeable quarters.


19 posted on 02/21/2005 9:03:39 PM PST by Torie
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To: neverdem

Well, it is the Queen's Navy.


20 posted on 02/21/2005 9:22:00 PM PST by LA Conservative (Peace Kills)
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