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Royal Navy launches bid to recruit gays
Boston.com ^
| 2/22/05
| Reuters
Posted on 02/22/2005 10:51:32 AM PST by jalisco555
LONDON -- Britain's Royal Navy yesterday announced a campaign to recruit gays and lesbians. The navy said it asked Stonewall, a gay rights lobbying group, to help develop the campaign, which could include ads in the gay press. Britain lifted its ban on homosexuals serving in the military in 2000 after a European court ruled that their exclusion was unlawful. In a separate announcement, the government said yesterday that same-sex couples can begin entering into civil unions in December. A law passed last year gives same sex-couples the right to form legally binding partnerships and share pensions. (Reuters)
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: britain; gays; homosexuality; porthole; puffda; royalnavy; seamen; sodomy; uk
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Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: jalisco555
the uk has come a long way from its glory days.
To: jalisco555
Same story, but NY Times source, . . .
here Nice to see the Royal Navy has gone back to its' roots of Rum, Buggery, and the Lash. . .
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:54:23 AM PST
by
Salgak
((don't mind me, the Orbital Mind Control Lasers are making me write this. . . . FNORD!!))
To: jalisco555
Homosexuality in the Royal Navy? Horrors!!!
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:54:34 AM PST
by
Lee Heggy
("In Missouri we don't call them "Guerrillas")
To: jalisco555
Royal Navy launches bid to recruit gaysComon.
This reads like ScrappleFace or The Onion.
'Fess up.
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:54:42 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News.")
To: jalisco555
Why do the words "don't drop the soap" keep running through my head to the tune of "Don't rock the boat"?
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:54:48 AM PST
by
Dave278
To: jalisco555
The UK and Europe's decline continues in FREE FALL.
In a related story, AIDS rates in the Royal Navy has skyrocketed recently after a ruling....
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:55:19 AM PST
by
HMFIC
(Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
To: jalisco555
Does this mean that farmers who love their sheep will also be covered under this umbrella? /S
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:55:25 AM PST
by
rocksblues
(Liberalism is a sickness not a political ideology)
To: Hartranft
Q. Why do they use SOAP FLAKES in the Royal Navy?
A. It takes longer for the Seamen to bend over and pick them up in the shower.
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:56:13 AM PST
by
HMFIC
(Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
To: jalisco555
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:56:37 AM PST
by
irishtenor
(If stupidity were painful, the Democrats would NEED paid health care...)
Sir Francis Drake is rolling in his grave.
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:56:52 AM PST
by
sociotard
(I am the one true Sociotard)
To: Dave278
It'll give "Clean and Jerk" a NEW meaning in the Royal Navy!
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:56:55 AM PST
by
HMFIC
(Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
To: sociotard
That would be, Lord Admiral NELSON, not Drake.
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:57:23 AM PST
by
HMFIC
(Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
To: jalisco555
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:57:58 AM PST
by
Recovering_Democrat
(I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
To: jalisco555
Self defense against fresh fruit....
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:59:02 AM PST
by
Dallas59
(Bush said the "F" word 27 times January 20th, 2005!)
To: jalisco555
"Britain's Royal Navy yesterday announced a campaign to recruit gays and lesbians.'
"Yoo-Hoo...Mister Sailor-man!"
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posted on
02/22/2005 10:59:21 AM PST
by
Adder
(Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
To: HMFIC
I'm sure neither Drake nor Nelson are too happy.
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posted on
02/22/2005 11:00:17 AM PST
by
sociotard
(I am the one true Sociotard)
To: jalisco555
I guess they've decided to make "Rum sodomy, and the lash" their official motto.
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posted on
02/22/2005 11:00:21 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(In hoc signo, vinces †)
To: jalisco555
Well, blow me down....ack, ack, ack, ack.
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posted on
02/22/2005 11:00:27 AM PST
by
add925
(The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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