Felons Yes, Gays No
February 14, 2007
Aaron Belkin makes a great point in a post at Huffington Post about the military lowering its to accept felons while kicking out soldiers found to be gay. Apparently its okay with the Pentagon leadership if you have a record of drug abuse, its not okay if you love a member of the same sex. Yeah, that makes a whole lot sense. Not!
The New York Times and Associated Press reported today that the number of felons allowed to serve in the military has surged since the invasion of Iraq nearly four years ago. The data, which were obtained by the Michael D. Palm Center at UC-Santa Barbara, show that both the military is letting in more recruits with serious criminal backgrounds, records of drug abuse, inferior educational attainment and other qualities which require a so-called “moral waiver” to allow young Americans to don a military uniform and deploy to the frontlines. It is a measure of how desperate our armed forces are to fill their ranks with bodies to fight in an increasingly unpopular war. (The data are posted at palmcenter.org)
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The problem is that the Pentagon’s current personnel policy is utterly irrational. Under its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, it has fired over 11,000 capable troops, including nearly 1000 considered mission-critical and over 300 foreign linguists, just because they’re gay. This despite overwhelming evidence that letting known gays serve does not impair cohesion, recruitment or effectiveness.
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Simmons | February 16, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Not allowing Gays in the army is outright discrimination. How is it any different from racism? Some conservative, please tell me???
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Brent | February 16, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Are you from the gay race?
Gays are allowed in the army.
Sex is not supposed to be a part of combat –which is the prime reason for having a military. Why do you feel that you have to go out of your way to let everyone else know that you love another man? Do you think that it is anyone else’s concern? It is your own business, not anyone else’s.
The military is not a gay parade.
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bloggernista | February 16, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Why do straight people feel like they have to go out of their way to let people know their sexual orientation? What’s with all the wedding announcements, the baby pictures, the public displays of affection? When you don’t feel the need to show off, then we can talk about gay people simply being honest about who we are.
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Brent | February 16, 2007 at 11:44 pm
You mean normal people? Normal people get married and have children. This is what nature intended. You are aware that sex between a man and a woman produces babies, right? What does sodomy produce?
You act as if heterosexual people are the freaks.
Goodbye
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bloggernista | February 17, 2007 at 1:16 am
I don’t think you’re freaks. I just don’t like the double standard that privileges opposite-sex relationships over same-sex relationships. Love is love no matter what the gender of your partner and both gay and straight relationships should be treated equally.
BTW, sex between a man and a woman only sometimes produces babies and sometimes it doesn’t. There are also many gay couples and singles that have adopted children, have children from previous non-gay relationships or are taking care of children produced by family members. Gay people have families too and we will do what it takes to protect them.
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Brent | February 17, 2007 at 1:55 am
Heterosexual people have families in a way which is natural. The whole purpose of sex is for reproduction. This is why men have penises and women have vaginas. Our sexual organs are designed for reproduction. That’s why they are referred to as reproductive organs. Don’t you see that it is God’s will? Well, obviously not!
A double standard does not exist. It’s all in your head. Most people don’t even care or never think about it, until someone who is gay brings it up. Straight people don’t even think about being straight, because it is the normal way to be.
I don’t care if you are gay, but don’t shove it down my throat, and/or expect me to go out of my way. It’s your business and I will not intrude on that –what’s in your house is yours, but it does not concern me in the least bit whether or not you are gay. This doesn’t mean that I hate you. I don’t. But I have my own problems, being a white Catholic male. I am expected to feel guilty for a whole bunch of things that I am not the least bit responsible for. You know what? I don’t feel guilty. Not at all, and I don’t apologize, because I [personally] have done nothing wrong. And yet, I am expected to pay 25% of my earnings to make up for the shortcomings of others who don’t have what I have. This is the case, even though I have never received a single handout in my entire life, and I have worked very hard for everything I have. I say if someone else wants what I have (which isn’t much), then go get a job like I have and earn it. I have my own concerns to fight for. Your fight is your fight, not mine.
I try to treat everyone fairly, and give everyone a chance to be my friend. Trust me, if I hated your guts, I would have never returned, despite your pissing me off with some of your absurd statements, especially about our Honorable Armed Forces.
And you cannot compare this to racism, like you have previously suggested, as Tim Hardaway has made this clear. He’s black, and obviously doesn’t like you because you are gay. Probably the majority of people from all races feel the same, they just don’t say it in public.
You should appreciate my honesty, and courage to say things as they are. I am not afraid of the P.C. police. They can kiss my pale white butt as far as I’m concerned.
I don’t hate you. It doesn’t mean that I like you, but it isn’t because you are gay. I just don’t like liberals very much –in many cases at least. I find them to be terribly hypocritical, and what I find most amusing is to mess with them. I know that I have not the power to change their minds, but I do have the power to defeat them in debate (which I almost always do), and expose them for the liars, hypocrites, and frauds that they are.
Why can’t you take this attitude against the radical Muslim terrorists? You know how much they hate gays? You would be the first one that they torture!
You sure do talk about gayness a lot. Does your blog have any other issues to discuss besides being a gay leftist? What about books (not gay books, because I don’t read those)?
Talk about freakin’ boring. Later dude.