[abigailsmybaby]

I’ll bet the general has lied about more than that. If he didn’t come out of the closet until after he retired doesn’t that mean he lied on documents when he entered the service?

[torchthemummy]

Good point and most assuredly the case if you buy the gay lobby’s assertion that being gay is genetic. If you don’t then the General has disproved one of their #1 defenses.

[GATOR NAVY]

I’ll bet the general has lied about more than that. If he didn’t come out of the closet until after he retired doesn’t that mean he lied on documents when he entered the service?

Most likely yes. I'm pretty sure my original enlistment papers in 1982 still asked if you were queer. And I know pre-don't-ask-don't-tell security clearance checks did.

[Plains Drifter]

So this guy was really a California National Guard Colonel. Another great job by CNN’s Anderson Pooper!

[wbill]

If he didn’t come out of the closet until after he retired doesn’t that mean he lied on documents when he entered the service?

Good question. Wonder if knowingly providing false information would jeopardize his pension?

[newzjunkey]

If he didn’t come out of the closet until after he retired doesn’t that mean he lied on documents when he entered the service?

Of course he lied then just as he lied by omission by not revealing his participation in Hillary's campaign. I don't care that he was in for 43 years, his character is deeply flawed and it has little to do with his sexuality.

Here's an excerpt of a profile: "General Kerr retired on 1 June 1996 after 43 years of service to the United States and the State of California... / The Rev. Dr. Alvin Gomer, Episcopal priest and licensed psychologist, was his partner of 26 years. Dr. Gomer died in 2000."

Thus he was hooked up with Gomer from 1974 onward which would include retiring from the U. S. Army Reserve in 1986 with the rank of Colonel, his commission in the CA National Guard and later his promotion "to Brigadier General on 21 February 1991."

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Well, he's not even a real general. He left the U.S. Army in 1960 as a 1st Looie, and then rose through the ranks of something called the California State Military Reserve, which apparently is a back-up outfit to the California National Guard.