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Originally posted by RUFFREADY
I don't think the troops need a lot of grab assing going on.
When I was in the service we did not have to worry about gays bugging us.
Its not good.
We need people that will kill the enemy, not check out their butts.
Originally posted by RUFFREADY
I don't think the troops need a lot of grab assing going on.
When I was in the service we did not have to worry about gays bugging us.
Its not good.
We need people that will kill the enemy, not check out their butts.
Originally posted by barkingdogamato
reply to post by Montana
Yep, Nam and the units raving, ranting, you believers are idiots, atheist when the mortars started dropping on top, was heard screaming at top volume " Jesus Christ why didn't I dig this (foxhole) deeper"
Per the ole WW2 quote "there are no atheist's in foxholes."
Originally posted by FarArcher
reply to post by Annee
You know, the last time I checked, willful stupidity was not a virtue.
Black blood? I don't give a tinker's damn about a man's color, his ethnicity, his religion, nor his address. I only cared that they would stick when the going got downright hopeless.
I think for you to equate the blood of a black man with the blood of a gay that may be of a blood-plague is stretching things quite a bit;.
You want to wallow in that gay blood - you knock yourself out.
Not me.
I don't want to be near them in combat. I would not touch their wounds, and even though I intellectually know there is no risk, I'd shoot one if I caught him drinking out of my canteen.
It's a basic health risk.
I don't want any bodily fluids anywhere near me, no sneezing, no coughing, and sure as hell, no blood.
Originally posted by TKDRL
Think about medics though. Imagine for people are shot in a firefight, three straight, one gay. Now in an ideal situation, they would assess each, and treat who was in the worst shape. Toss in the scenario the gay guy was open gay, and the medics knew it, and have heard many times gay people are more likely to have HIV than straight. Guess who will be looked at last?
Originally posted by pr3l33t
Originally posted by boondock-saint
your ideology is naturally incorrect.
If every man in the world turned gay
tomorrow. How many babies would be
born after 9 months from now?
ZERO !!!!
Ever heard of artificial insemination?
Originally posted by tom502
As I've stated before, I don't think anyone really cares if there are gays in the military, I was in the military and we had some obvious gays, but no one cared. I think the negative of this new official law to serve openly, will cause more disturbance, because it will segregate gays into a special and protected class, and now the idea of having special classes to address gays, etc, will only put the gay issue into people's faces and make them notice where before, no one cared.
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by TKDRL
Think about medics though. Imagine for people are shot in a firefight, three straight, one gay. Now in an ideal situation, they would assess each, and treat who was in the worst shape. Toss in the scenario the gay guy was open gay, and the medics knew it, and have heard many times gay people are more likely to have HIV than straight. Guess who will be looked at last?
What if the medic is gay?
Originally posted by Isawsomething
Originally posted by tom502
As I've stated before, I don't think anyone really cares if there are gays in the military, I was in the military and we had some obvious gays, but no one cared. I think the negative of this new official law to serve openly, will cause more disturbance, because it will segregate gays into a special and protected class, and now the idea of having special classes to address gays, etc, will only put the gay issue into people's faces and make them notice where before, no one cared.
No one cared? I am sure the gays cared. And why shouldn't a minority be protected from potential bullying and the trampling of their rights (one that has been going on for a while now)?
I can't believe we're about to cross over to 2011 and one STILL has to be white, male, straight and Christian to get some basic respect as a human being in the US.
Originally posted by Sparky63
Gays are human beings and not above sexually harassing a straight man any less than a straight man might harass a female. I recently had to fire a gay employee who kept sending sexually explicit emails to a straight employee even after being warned that it was a violation of company policy. He made is clear that he had a strong romantic attraction to the straight employee and this caused a huge problem in the department I am responsible for. He made numerous statements that the straight employee should just admit that he was gay.
Due to the nature of the problem our company felt it necessary to involve a lawyer to represent the companies interests and make sure that we were not opening ourselves to any lawsuits accusing us of sexual discrimination.
As a result the problem persisted much longer than I would have allowed and the straight employee had to endure several weeks of continued harassment until the lawyers determined that we were clear to fire the gay employee.
To assume that some gays in the military will not sexually harass their fellow soldiers is extremely naive. I pity the ribbing some straight soldiers will have to endure when they become the object of affection by some openly gay soldier who may feel protected by the military's new policy. This is a bad policy in my opinion. I think it is just a matter of time before this issue blows up and causes massive unrest in the military.
Originally posted by Sparky63
This is a bad policy in my opinion. I think it is just a matter of time before this issue blows up and causes massive unrest in the military.