You couldn't possibly be more WRONG.
Sodomy was illegal in all states until recently. I have no idea what the punishment would have been in the military a century and a half ago, but it would have been brutal (and it's likely that the sodomites wouldn't have survived).
Our Founding Fathers had very strict ideas regarding sodomy:
If you are going to push the homosexual agenda, you should do it elsewhere. Free Republic is a CONSERVATIVE forum.
Flushed another one out, eh?