Posted on 05/31/2005 8:29:52 PM PDT by SmithL
CINCINNATI -- An Army sergeant from Ohio who was wounded in Iraq and wanted to remain in the military as an openly gay soldier was officially discharged Tuesday, according to an advocacy group.
Sgt. Robert Stout, 23, was awarded the Purple Heart after a grenade sent shrapnel into his arm, face and legs while he was using a machine gun on a Humvee in May 2004.
Stout, of Utica in central Ohio, told The Associated Press in April that he wanted to remain in the military and be openly gay, but that would conflict with the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
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Shell shock.
For some people, it's not enough to keep it behind closed doors. No, they just have to "make a statement". I guess we're supposed to feel sorry for him because he's an injured soldier. That, I guess, gives him license to break the rules of the military.
He should be let go. We can't have our guys over there trying to fight a war with homos jumping on their backs.
concerned about politics wrote:
he wanted to remain in the military and be openly gay, but that would conflict with the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
He should be let go. We can't have our guys over there trying to fight a war with homos jumping on their backs.
--LMAO!!!!!!
I've noticed that it seems the only positive stories that the MSM will do on members of the military are the ones that fall into the P.C. category. They just cannot do a story on a soldier, regardless of race, sex, etc.
You REALLY think that happens?
Thank you for your service. Buh-bye.
I'm sure that would go over well: parade around the streets of Iraq, with his tongue down another soldier's throat.
Thank you for not posting pictures.
It is presumed that the AP operative was working closely with "advocacy groups", whose stated purpose is to effect change in the military's social policies, but whose real purpose may be something very much darker...
Stout said he was openly gay among most of his 26-member platoon, part of the 9th Engineer Battalion based in Germany.
I almost lost by beer on that one as well. LOL
perfect stranger wrote:
I almost lost by beer on that one as well. LOL
--> it wasn't a beer, it was a six pack!!!! :P
According to soldiers and sailors who claim to have been raped by homos it has.
It's definitely a morale buster. Was when I was in and is now.
Well played my friend. I relish your obscure humor.
There must be an exhibitionist tendency that goes with homosexuality. It's all they bloody talk about.
Thank you!! What a compliment !!
Here in New York city, every year they have a gay parade down 5th avenue.. gay rights day or whatever you call it. They paint a lavender line down 5th avenue, put up lavender lights in the empire state building, and it`s usually held on a Sunday so as to offend the people coming out of church with their kids who get to see men tongue bathing each other, wearing nothing but G-strings and/or leather dominatrix clothes and using dildos as lollipops.
This is also the only time you ever see Hillary Clinton in New York, as she is usually marching with them because that`s what lesbians do. Any other time during the year you never see her in New York because she is usually on a world wide book tour or out touring the country to promote herself.
The point is, if gays want respect from Americans society, want to be treated equally under the law as straights, then why do they hold this parade? Why do they act like idiots? You act like an idiot you will get treated as an idiot. If straights did this, had a parade showing a man and woman naked having sex how long do you think it would be before that parade was banned? If gays are fed up with not being treated equally, then they only have themselves to blame. They are the ones who are bashing homosexuality, not anybody else. They are the ones who make it offensive as possible. This whole "don`t ask don`t tell" thing in the military exists for that reason alone. The whole military is run on respect and honor, and if you got some idiot running around looking like some psycho fruitcake, that idiot don`t belong in the military in the first place.
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