Great Britain: Gay soldier to wed partner (Dad of 3 to live with new 'wife' in Army quarters)

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | January 23, 2006

[Stoat]

EXCLUSIVE

Gay soldier to wed partner

New life ... for gay Cpl Neal
 

By THE INVESTIGATOR

 A GAY soldier is to wed his boyfriend in the first open civil partnership in the armed forces.

Cpl Andy Neal, 32, is currently married to a woman, but has left her to start a new life with his male lover, 27.

The dad-of-three split from his wife and kids soon after returning from war-torn Iraq last year. His civilian gay lover now stays with him in barracks instead. They met in November — after Cpl Neal’s DAD set him up on a blind date.

The infantryman hopes to become the first soldier to have a public gay wedding and live in Army married quarters with his lover.

He said: “It would be the final taboo broken.”


 

I do ... when he married wife Julie
 

The Ministry of Defence say at least one gay couple have secretly wed already — but none have gone public.

Cpl Neal, stationed in Pirbright, Surrey, joined up in 1991 and wed wife Julie three years later.

He confessed he was gay weeks after the wedding — but kept quiet because of the Army ban on homosexuals at the time.

Cpl Neal said Julie emailed him last April as he fought in Iraq with the Royal Anglian Regiment to tell him she wanted to divorce.

The Army have supported him. He said. “From top to bottom, they have been brilliant.”
 

• THE UK’s three million gays earned over £70billion last year, according to a new survey of the pink pound.

[joesnuffy]

The camel not only has his nose under the tent, the sob is sitting on the sofa with his arm around mom with daddy's remote in one hand and his cell phone in the other calling up all camel relatives to move in with him.

[tracer]

Probably transferred from the British navy....

[joesnuffy]

This should embolden the Muslamofascists to keep plugging away at 'Mary' old England.

[rockabyebaby]

Ok, so the question is, if he confessed to being gay weeks after the wedding WHY are there three kids? Was his wife stupid enough to conceive 3 times with this guy perhaps hoping she could "change" him or are they her kids from a previous marriage?

[sandbar]

What does that say about his wife that she not only stayed with him after finding out he was 'gay', but had three children with him???

Maybe she was niave and foolish enough to fall for the 'but I won't act on it' bit and now finds herself dumped for a queer.

I want to say poor thing, but...

I will say that about the kids though.

[dead]

[Old Professer]

See, that headline that blamed the dead whale for U.K. military wasn't a typo.

[RegulatorCountry]

LOL, Galloway with that Murtha expression on his face.

[trebb]

I wonder how many straight soldiers' careers will be ruined as they let slip their thoughts on the two winkies among them?

[JustAnotherOkie]

Don't you jutht love a happy ending????

[dighton]

His civilian gay lover now stays with him in barracks instead. They met in November — after Cpl Neal’s DAD set him up on a blind date.

“I want a lad,
Just like the lad,
That married dear old dad.”

[N3WBI3]

Im confused, hes gay and he told his wife weeks after they got married? And yet they have three kids? The obvious question is:

If he is gay *and his wife knew it* why would he want to (and she be stupid enough to) maintain a sexual relationship..

[MarineBrat]

Where does this madness end? Will Brits end up getting permission to marry goats and sheep and cattle?

Personally, I'd much sooner take a sheep on a long weekend than ride the hershey highway!

[Mamzelle]

What a beautiful bride... (I mean his first one)... a gen-u-ine English Rose.

[mrsmith]

Monty Python............. or Nostradamus?

Mr Man: I was just wondering whether it would be possible for me to join... the women's army?
RSM: The Women's Royal Army Corps, sir?
Mr Man: Yes. I was just thinking, you know, if it was possible for me to have my choice ... I'd prefer to be in the Women's Royal Amy Corps.
RSM: Well, I'm afraid that the people that recruit here normally go straight into the Scots Guards.
Mr Man: Which is all... men... I suppose?
RSM: Yes it is.
Mr Man: Yes. Are there any regiments which are more effeminate than others?
RSM: Well, no sir. I mean, apart from the Marines, they're all dead butch.
Mr Man: You see, what I really wanted was a regiment where I could be really quiet and have more time to myself to work with fabrics, and creating new concepts in interior design.
RSM: Working with fabrics and experimenting with interior design!
Mr Man: Yes.
RSM: Oh well you want the Durham Light Infantry then, sir.
Mr Man: Oh.
RSM: Oh yes. That's the only regiment that's really doing something new with interior design, with colour, texture, line and that.
Mr Man: I see.
RSM: Oh yes, I mean their use of colour with fabrics is fantastic. I saw their pattern book the other day - beautiful, beautiful. Savage tans, great slabs of black set against aggressive orange. It really makes you want to shout out, this is good! This is real!
Mr Man: Really?
RSM: Oh yes. I mean the Inniskillin Fusiliers and the Anglian Regiment are all right if you're interested in the art nouveau William Morris revival bit, but if you really want a regiment of the line that is really saying something about interior decor, then you've got to go for the Durham Light Infantry.

[yankeedame]

What a beautiful bride... (I mean his first one)... a gen-u-ine English Rose.

I agree. She is a pretty thing; not too bright but awfully pretty.

[JewishRighter]

The once Great Britain is not anymore. Like the Roman Empire before it, it has wasted away by offering bread and circus to appease masses from within and without its borders. Today's bread is welfare, today's circus is the pc plunge to moral relativism. To think, just a few generations ago, they produced Churchill.

We should be vigilant for America, for without Freepers and like-minded people who care about her greatness and her heritage, including the Judeo-Christian values brought here by the founders, we face the same fate as England. And it could happen very fast.

[Clock King]

2 questions: 1) will it be a military wedding (will the "bride" wear white or pink?) 2) How does a "gay" person have sex with a person of the opposite gender? I would think they just wouldn't be able to do "it" if they were truely gay. That's why I don't buy this, married with 3 kids, then decides to come out BS. He just has an out of control sexuality and is indulging himself , IMO.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

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[taillightchaser]

When is someone going to step up and tell it like it is?? These freaks are less than one percent of the population. TheMSM would have you believe they are 50 or 60 percent of us. That is bu--sh--.
I'm sick of these maggots getting all this press--it's about time the normal folks told these freaks to get lost.