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Wounded Gay Soldier Discharged From Army
AP ^ | 5/31/5

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: discharged; dontaskdonttell; gay; openlygay; woundedsoldier
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No agenda here, huh?
1 posted on 05/31/2005 8:29:52 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Shell shock.


2 posted on 05/31/2005 8:31:09 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9-11!)
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To: SmithL

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.


3 posted on 05/31/2005 8:35:23 PM PDT by marsh_of_mists
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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.

4 posted on 05/31/2005 8:37:01 PM PDT by concerned about politics (Vote Republican - Vote morally correct!)
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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!!!!!!


5 posted on 05/31/2005 8:40:18 PM PDT by 1FASTGLOCK45 (FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
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To: marsh_of_mists

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.


6 posted on 05/31/2005 8:41:11 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (FACT: You can get more reliable information in a beauty shop, than from the media)
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We can't have our guys over there trying to fight a war with homos jumping on their backs.

You REALLY think that happens?

7 posted on 05/31/2005 8:42:13 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: SmithL

Thank you for your service. Buh-bye.


8 posted on 05/31/2005 8:42:30 PM PDT by ExtremeUnction
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To: concerned about politics
he wanted to remain in the military and be openly gay

I'm sure that would go over well: parade around the streets of Iraq, with his tongue down another soldier's throat.

9 posted on 05/31/2005 8:42:55 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (FACT: You can get more reliable information in a beauty shop, than from the media)
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To: SmithL

Thank you for not posting pictures.


10 posted on 05/31/2005 8:42:58 PM PDT by since1868
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AP Attempts To Undermine Army Morale

CINCINNATI -- An Associated Press operative today published a piece featuring an Army sergeant from Ohio. The AP operative decided to use the sergeant to portray the Army as insensitive and callous towards its own, even those who have been wounded in combat.

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...

11 posted on 05/31/2005 8:43:33 PM PDT by an amused spectator (If Social Security isn't broken, then cut me a check for the cash I have into it.)
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To: SmithL
"I know a ton of gay men that would be more than willing to stay in the Army if they could just be open," Stout said in April.

Stout said he was openly gay among most of his 26-member platoon, part of the 9th Engineer Battalion based in Germany.


13 posted on 05/31/2005 8:44:24 PM PDT by perfect stranger (I need new glasses.)
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To: 1FASTGLOCK45

I almost lost by beer on that one as well. LOL


14 posted on 05/31/2005 8:45:33 PM PDT by perfect stranger (I need new glasses.)
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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


15 posted on 05/31/2005 8:47:55 PM PDT by 1FASTGLOCK45 (FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
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To: Strategerist

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.


16 posted on 05/31/2005 8:48:35 PM PDT by TFMcGuire
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To: 1FASTGLOCK45

Well played my friend. I relish your obscure humor.


17 posted on 05/31/2005 8:50:09 PM PDT by perfect stranger (I need new glasses.)
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To: marsh_of_mists

There must be an exhibitionist tendency that goes with homosexuality. It's all they bloody talk about.


18 posted on 05/31/2005 8:50:50 PM PDT by relictele (so there)
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To: perfect stranger

Thank you!! What a compliment !!


19 posted on 05/31/2005 8:52:54 PM PDT by 1FASTGLOCK45 (FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
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To: SmithL

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.


20 posted on 05/31/2005 8:53:50 PM PDT by EdHallick
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