Posted on 01/22/2022 1:45:30 PM PST by Ennis85
Former Veterans minister Johnny Mercer has called on Boris Johnson to say sorry to armed forces LGBT+ vets jailed or dismissed for their sexuality.
Mr Mercer told the Sunday Mirror: “It’s the least the PM can do for the pain they have suffered.
“Our armed forces are now the best in the world for LGBT inclusion but that was not always the case.
“A national apology and compensation will go some way to repairing the damage done to so many lives.”
Up to 20,000 LGBT armed services personnel were drummed out of careers they loved until the services gay ban was lifted in 2000 following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
Some men were jailed, or forced to undergo shaming rituals by having medals ripped from their uniforms.
Now the Cabinet Office has ordered an independent review of their treatment in a victory for the Sunday Mirror’s campaign alongside support charity Fighting With Pride.
Home Secretary Priti Patel has already offered LGBT vets pardons and the inquiry will now consider whether they should be compensated for loss of earnings and pensions.
Former Army lieutenant Elaine Chambers, 61, of the Isle of Wight, said: “Veterans remain angry and distrustful of those in power after the appalling way we were treated.
“I am looking for reparation to offset the decades of financial hardship I have faced as a result of losing the career I loved.”
Former Navy medic Chris Ferguson, 60, from Edinburgh, added: “The Navy was everything to me - my life and my family.
“When I was dismissed for being gay I ended up homeless. Compensation would help towards healing that trauma and pain.”
Labour MP Dan Carden said: “This review is a vital first step in uncovering the true extent of the hurt and distress caused.
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The examples in this excerpt don’t make compelling arguments.
Ask, Tell rocked!
Sodomite acts should again be illegal everywhere.
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry”
-——Love Story by Erich Segal
“Our armed forces are now the best in the world for LGBT inclusion”
That’s all they’re best in the world for.
““When I was dismissed for being gay I ended up homeless.”
typical drama queen these fags
““I am looking for reparation to offset the decades of financial hardship I have faced as a result of losing the career I loved.”
Reparations for being black, now for being a butt pirate. What a world we live in.
One of the stupidest quotes ever.
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British Empire vets rolling in graves.
Everyone I knew said that when the movie came out. I never saw it based on my best friend's thumbs down.
But watch Boris tear up when you tell him that.
Agreed. I am married. I need to say I am sorry to my wife for more things than require remorse. Love=Married=Perpetual Contrition. At least it is if you are smart...
We should go back to “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy but reform it in that it is unprofessional to talk about sexual orientation while you are on duty whether you are a heterosexual or a homosexual. If you sleep with each other, you get courtmartialed. You are in the military to break stuff. Not to give flowers to others and “save” them.
Boris: “OK, sorry for your trouble, treatment is available.”
““When I was dismissed for being gay I ended up homeless.”
A modern Maynard G. Krebes.
It’s LGBTQ+P
“Some men were jailed, or forced to undergo shaming rituals by having medals ripped from their uniforms.”
And the problem is?
Well, they’ll need an army of lgbtq soldiers while they wage war on Christianity and traditional values.
“British Empire vets rolling in graves”
Winston Churchill may disagree, at least on the traditions of the Royal Navy.
Nobody forced them to join the service. The consequences for homosexual activity in uniform were known. So you snuck in? Got found out and drummed out? Oh, well. Policy changed now? OK. Do you want your CO retroactively punished, too, for enforcing the protocols of the time?
Homeless because you got kicked out of the navy? GMAFB.
These pukes would endanger any unit on a real combat OP. Not one officer or senior NCO in SF would take one on a combat op.
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