[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.

[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.

[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)

[SteveMcKing]

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

C+

[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.

[Radix]

Has Homosexuality Always Been Incompatible With Military Service?

 

Shelter halfs?

 

 

Don't get it?   

 

I'm not surprised.

 

There are lot a of reasons that a certain persuasion is not compatible with military service.

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

PING..

[Billthedrill]

It depends not on the military but on the underlying society, and that's as it should be. Certainly there were several known militaries in which it was common and in their parent societies it was treated differently than it is in modern Western ones. There are schools of historical revisionism ("Sparta Reconsidered" is one) that are attempting either to deny its presence or put it in a new perspective, but evidence in the classics abounds.

So the strict answer to the question is "is homosexuality always compatible with military service?" is demonstrably "no." The question "is homosexuality incompatible with current Western military practice?" is quite a different question and should be dealt with from the perspective of its acceptance in our society, and not those of days gone by. We're not Macedonians or Thebans or Corinthians or Spartans, after all.

[Waco]

What were they called in George's days, Liberals?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

In the UCMJ shacking up is still against the rules, according to article 134. But, it is ignored. Isn't this the same policy with homosexuality?

[sit-rep]

Lotta words to say pillow biters don't belong around real men.

[Lancey Howard]

This is an excellent piece by David Barton. It's just a shame that it is even an issue at all. Homosexual behavior is unnatural - - sexual activity is nature's way to survive and continue as a species, and the physical "parts" were designed specifically for procreation - - and unnatural acts creep people out instinctively. It's not something you need to think about - - you just know it in your gut from the time that you are a child. Whether people can "live and let live" doesn't matter in civilian situations where you can choose the people with whom you live and work.

However, in the risky and deadly serious business of warfare - - where trained, testosterone-fueled combat warriors tape their dogtags together so they don't jingle, and tread carefully through the brush at night with long twigs to check for tripwires - - any distraction can be fatal. To deliberately allow people who engage in creepy, unnatural behavior (sodomy) into the mix would amount to creating an unnecessary distraction. It would be pure idiocy and it would ultimately put lives at risk, all because liberals want to pander to a significant part of their Democrat Party's "base" - - the sodomites.