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Commanders Ordered Not To Fire Gays Until War's End (***** Fundies Edition) |
Rightwing Christians would protest about this, except they're too
***** to go in their place.
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/09/091305military.htm
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| Title: Re: Commanders Ordered Not To Fire Gays Until War's End (***** Fundies Edition) |
18 Sep 2005 03:36:33 PM |
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:34:02 -0700, "Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's
Cocaine Snorting *****" <eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote:
Rightwing Christians would protest about this, except they're too
***** to go in their place.
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/09/091305military.htm
Commanders Ordered Not To Fire Gays Until War's End
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: September 13, 2005 5:00 pm ET
(Santa Barbara, California) Scholars studying military personnel
policy have discovered a document halting the discharge of gay
soldiers in units that are about to be mobilized.
The document was made public Tuesday by Center for the Study of Sexual
Minorities in the Military (CSSMM), a think tank at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. It was found during research for a story
for the ABC news program Nightline.
The regulation was contained in a 1999 "Reserve Component Unit
Commander's Handbook" and is still in effect, according to the Center.
It states that if a discharge for homosexual conduct is requested
"prior to the unit's receipt of alert notification, discharge isn't
authorized. Member will enter AD [active duty] with the unit."
The document is significant because of longstanding Pentagon denials
that the military requires gays to serve during wartime, only to fire
them once peacetime returns. According to the "don't ask, don't tell"
policy, gays and lesbians must be discharged whether or not the
country is at war.
Gay soldiers and legal groups have reported for years that known gays
are sent into combat, and then discharged when the conflicts end.
Discharge statistics corroborate a pattern of rising expulsions during
peacetime and plummeting rates during military conflicts, and Pentagon
statistics confirm that, as has been the case in every war since World
War II, gay discharges have declined during the current conflict in
the Middle East.
But the Pentagon has consistently denied that, when mobilization
requires bolstering troop strength, it sends gays to fight despite the
existence of a gay ban, and some observers have insisted there is no
evidence of such a practice. During the first Gulf War, Pentagon
spokesman, Bill Caldwell, said the military would "absolutely not"
send gays to war and discharge them when the conflict ends.
Shortly after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a Pentagon spokesman said
that the military was not modifying its regulations on gay troops. And
a May, 2005 study by the Congressional Research Service says that
although gay discharges do decline during wartime, the decrease is the
result of .random fluctuations in the data," not an intentional
Pentagon policy of retaining gays during wars".
Meanwhile, the Pentagon acknowledged Tuesday that it would again fail
to meet its monthly recruiting goal and for the first time since 1999
would not meet its goal for the year.
In July, the the Williams Project at the UCLA School of Law issued a
report showing that if the ban on gays serving openly were lifted the
military would gain 41,000 troops. (story)
Especially in the wake of Katrina, as some have concluded that a
National Guard stretched thin by deployments abroad was limited in its
ability to respond to a catastrophe here at home, the added strength
of more than 40,000 recruits has the potential of making a significant
difference," Steve Ralls, spokesperson for the Servicemembers Legal
Defense Network told 365Gay.com.
"And, as we've seen Coast Guardsmen rescuing the trapped in New
Orleans, it begs the question: Did those being rescued really care
about the sexual orientation of those men and women who came to save
them?
"Now - especially now - the Army needs every recruit it can find.
Not only for war operations abroad, but for rescue missions here at
home, too. If ever there was a wake-up call about the need for
qualified people on the ground, it came last week in New Orleans."
©365Gay.com 2005
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of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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