[OneWingedShark]

The problem Washington delt with was not homosexuality, it was buggery, aka forcible sodomy or homosexual rape.
Churchill reported that the British Navy in the time of Napoleon ran on “Rum, Buggery, and the Lash.”

In all honesty I'd call that rape, not homosexuality.
I believe rape ought to garner the death penalty (as should murder).

The biggest problems I have with Ansel are these:

1. He never acknowledges any issue other than homosexuality;
2. any disagreement with him, on any issue, is evidence that you're a liberal/libertarian,
3. and because you agree with liberals/libertarians any argument you make must be in support of their agenda/platform (esp. WRT homosexuality).
        — Any argument you make may, therefore be ignored.
4. Any suggestion of limiting government, esp. if you mention the War on Drugs, means you're a libertarian.
5. He refuses to define 'homosexual':
   1. Is it someone who has a sexual attraction to someone of the same gender? Regardless of if they act on it? (Common societal working-def.)
   2. Is it someone who has been involved in a homosexual act? Does the willfulness in the incident matter? (i.e. if a homosexual rapes you, are you a homo now?)
   3. Is it anyone who is in any of the above?
      -- This is, as far as I can tell, the definition Ansel uses.
6. He refuses to talk about ANY other topic; this guy is obsessed with homosexuals.

PS - Thanks for the clarifications on Washington's situations.

[ansel12]

Washington and American military law was always dealing with homosexuality, not only rape, that is another bizarre misdirection claiming that it was legal to be homosexual, you just could’t rape your fellow soldiers.

That is a lie, just as donmeaker lied when he claimed that the military during the 1960s and 1970s that homosexuals were “”recruited and admired for their excellent performance.””.

As far as defining a homosexual in the military, I never realized that you were asking that and I don’t know the relevance, it means anyone who is an active homosexual or is learned to identify as a homosexual, I thought that was obvious, surely you know that there must be a few pedophiles in the military but no one can mind read, if they are discovered to be so, then they are kicked out.

None of this changes the reality that law has to determine the status of homosexuals in the military, either they are discriminated against by law, or equal in the law, equal means that their legal gay marriages would be recognized as well.