Has Homosexuality Always Been Incompatible With Military Service?

WallBuilders ^ | David Barton

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

I decided to post this...after an 3-star female general (another affirmative action general???), Claudia Kennedy, has started publicly "prodding" the military to allow homosexuals to serve in the military. It looks like Feminism is still trying to conquer the military completely! Three-star general wants gays in military

[dfwgator]

What was that line about "rum, sodomy, and the lash?"

[Andy from Beaverton]

Gomer, are you gay???

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

Ping..

[Yasotay]

bump for later

[RogueIsland]

Has Homosexuality Always Been Incompatible With Military Service?

Well, the Spartans seemed to think it was a requirement.

[stm]

"Has Homosexuality Always Been Incompatible With Military Service?"

In the military I have served in for the last 19 years it damn sure is. It runs counter to all good order and discipline and is an detriment to morale.

Imagine if you were a medic treating a known homosexual for a bleeding abdominal gunshot wound. Although, like physicians, he is obligated to treat all wounded, would he not hesitate wondering if this person was HIV positive because of his lifestyle? I know I damn sure would. With blood all over the place I would not want to risk infecting myself and signing my own death warrant.

[curmudgeonII]

If you want to go back far enough in history, what about the Sacred Band of Thebes?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Seems to me that the services would need 3 barracks. One for straight males, one for straight females, and one for gays.

[little jeremiah]

Must for the list!!!

[Jaysun]

The Romans tried allowing homosex when the soldiers were away from home for a long time. They quickly changed their minds and started bringing in whores. It's destructive, they know it, we know it.

[RoadTest]

"At a General Court Martial whereof Colo. Tupper was President (10th March 1778), Lieutt. Enslin of Colo. Malcom's Regiment [was] tried for attempting to commit sodomy, with John Monhort a soldier; Secondly, For Perjury in swearing to false accounts, [he was] found guilty of the charges exhibited against him, being breaches of 5th. Article 18th. Section of the Articles of War and [we] do sentence him to be dismiss'd [from] the service with infamy. His Excellency the Commander in Chief approves the sentence and with abhorrence and detestation of such infamous crimes orders Lieutt. Enslin to be drummed out of camp tomorrow morning by all the drummers and fifers in the Army never to return"

Seems like things have been going downhill ever since then.

[Darth Malice]

We are in the same boat as the Romans....heading for same fate

[SIDENET]

Claudia Kennedy, has started publicly "prodding" the military to allow homosexuals to serve in the military

She was a Clinton-appointed general. (what a shock)

[Jaysun]

We are in the same boat as the Romans....heading for same fate

Yep. Let's hope we straighten it out before Attila the Hun comes around.

[Darth Malice]

Atilla is already here...Bin Laden,Chavez,and all....Right now we have a weak President at the helm who would put ole Claudia in charge to appease the left.

[SteveMcKing]

27 references, yet the word "blackmail" didn't appear once in the whole piece.

C+

[Jaysun]

Atilla is already here...Bin Laden,Chavez,and all....Right now we have a weak President at the helm who would put ole Claudia in charge to appease the left.

Sad isn't it? The left is public enemy number one and we try to appease them.

[warchild9]

My daddy spent 35 years as an active-duty Marine (grunt, then Marine Recondo--including WWII, Korea, and three tours in Viet Nam). He says as long as "they" did their jobs, no one really cared.

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

I am vaguely aware of the societal structure the Spartans lived under and to the extent they practiced homosexuality seems to come from retrospective views imply such behavior was dominant due to the companionship of males. Nevertheless, as the above commentary has shown, it is anathema to the American experience.