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You know (and let me just say, that while straight I strongly support gay rights), I have never understood the conservative opposition to gays in the military. It seems to me that if you are that opposed to homosexuals, you would WANT some of the strongest proponents of that lifestyle to take on some of the most dangerous jobs possible, after all, a gay man (or woman) that dies in Iraq or Afghanistan is one that can’t lobby or vote for gay rights in the next election.

Also, I am a former marine. I arrived at Parris Island on Thanksgiving of ’89 and graduated on Valentine’s day of ’90. At one point mid-late January, while we were under a lot of stress, one of my few friends in the training platoon propositioned me. As I said before, I’m straight, so you can imagine this made me pretty uncomfortable. In fact I blew up on him, I don’t recall exactly what I said, but at 18 years old and unnerved and generally stressed out… it probably wasn’t the nicest thing ever. But it was mostly about not being interested (after my first ‘no’ he tried to talk me into it).

Thing is, two or so days later, we were totally fine with each other, and remained friends through the rest of basic training, and for the following month at SOI (school of infantry, where at the time all Marines went for a month after basic training and before heading out to their MOS school).

In summary, discrimination in the military is still discrimination. We need the best and most talented people willing to serve our country to do so. It seems both silly and short sighted to exclude them because they prefer to play with their gender’s parts instead of the other’s.

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Don’t question the military when it wants to go to war. Only when it wants to send openly gay soldiers to war. Got it.

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That is one unhealthy fixation for being thought of as a sex object by other dudes that this Sprigg has.

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I was actually being standard ‘tolerant liberal reaches out to his opponents’ until he started talking about the uniform military code and Lawrence v. Texas.

THEN I put on my steel-toed boots.

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I agree with Sage. Throat punching seems more effective; not to mention you’ll get a satisfying gurgle of pain.

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I always figured the best way to get conservatives agree to let gays in the military was to read them the list of countries that don’t allow it.

Cuba, China, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Egypt, and Russia. You know, ?bad guy countries”. Their fear of being associated with them will have DADT repealed before you can say “Fabulous!”

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I can’t claim to have studied this matter in any great depth, but it does seem to me that the majority of opponents to gays serving in the military are chickenhawks with overly romantic (pun intended) views on the nature of military life.

As for the military not being a place for social justice experimentation … sorry, Mr. Sprigg. That’s already happened and will continue to happen, and at some level perhaps it’s the ideal place for it to happen.

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While listening to a story on NPR yesterday about DADT, I found I couldn’t stop myself from repeatedly shouting “BIGOT!” at my radio while they were talking to Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA).

An excerpt:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123287737

BLOCK: But Congressman Hunter, wouldnt you agree that there are gays and lesbians serving in the military right now, they just are not open about their orientation. So the problems that you raise presumably would be problems already. They are in the barracks already. They are in the showers already.

Rep. HUNTER: No, but they arent open about it, like you just said. Its like if you want to work for NPR, you dont go to work and on the first day say, hey, I want everybody to know that Im gay. You probably dont care one way or the other as long as they, you know, get their particular job done. I think the military is the same way. Thats why dont ask, dont tell works.

Didn’t this asshole just contradict his position? If nobody cares what your orientation is, so long as you can do your job well, why is that a reason to keep discriminatory practices in place?

Oh, how I would love to see Rep. Hunter, and this Sprigg guy, and all their ilk served a nice, big roofie-colada with a side order of sodium pentathol, just to get a peek at what is truly inside, buried beneath all their inhibitions and hate and bullshit moralism.

Bigots.

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There’s a few reasons for the conservative stance against homosexuals in the military. They think dying for your country is a really great honor that they want to deny them, the same way some people wanted to keep blacks out of the military. Also they seem to think they’re… sluts basically. In their mind homosexuals would proposition everyone and break up the camraderie of the barracks. That they’d try to “recruit” people. And I’ve also heard homosexuals called security risks, which I guess means they think gay people would be quite happy to sleep with the enemy.

And I saw someone up there mention the no prostitutes thing. That’s based on STDs.

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Gays in the army? Sheesh, I think the Village People proved back in the 70s that the navy was more welcoming.

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And I’ve also heard homosexuals called security risks, which I guess means they think gay people would be quite happy to sleep with the enemy.

I’ve heard that justified with the bullshit notion that “since homosexuals violate one social norm, they are likely to also violate military rules.”

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Marionette and other idiots who repeat this line, listen (well, read) closely: FREEDOM OF SPEECH ONLY GUARANTEES THAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT VIOLATE YOUR RIGHTS. YOU ARE NOT FREE FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR SPEECH BECAUSE OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT. You want to say bigoted, hateful, stupid garbage? Fine. You think you can scream “I HAEV FWEEDUM UV SPEACH!!!!1” to avoid the consequences? Sorry, no dice.

Funny how the so-called “freedom advocates” out there don’t even know what they’re advocating.

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Also, point for Matthews doing this interview right. He got the guy to actually admit his view, and just lets us at home make the call as to whether Sprigg’s an ass-hat or not.

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Shooter, did you even read what I wrote? I agreed that he deserved a smack for spouting his hate speech. How is that letting him off the consequences of his words?

If you want to go off all ranty you might try it on someone who disagrees with you. Preferably someone bound by the laws you are getting all caps about.

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Where is Spider Jerusalem with the chiar leg of truth when we need him?

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Okay, I’ll admit, I’ve never been in any branch of the armed services, but everything I hear leads me to believe that one of the goals of basic training is to instill a measure of self-discipline in the troops. Does this guy not believe in Army discipline? Why doesn’t he support the troops?

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I was complimented on my genitalia and BMT-honed physique a week after I went to tech school, with the compliment coming from one of my flightmates. I didn’t burst into flame, I didn’t kill him in a rage and I didn’t run into the bushes (or any other convenient ares) with him for a frenetic bout of dirty homoghey assfucking. If they’re going to repeal it, then it’s fine with me. Besides, the amount of “not really gay, but they’re fucking gay!” people in the military would make that moron’s head spin. The only difference between DADT and no-DADT is the fact that I’d have more people around me doing their jobs on a regular basis, instead of having to wait for FY20** to begin so that we can be assigned more personnel.

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