Military recruiters told to accept gay applicants

SAN DIEGO – The military is accepting openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation's history, even as it tries in the courts to slow the movement to abolish its "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

At least three service members discharged for being gay began the process to re-enlist after the Pentagon's Tuesday announcement, and several others told The Associated Press they plan to try to rejoin this week .

A federal judge in California who overturned the 17-year policy last week rejected the government's latest effort on Tuesday to halt her order telling the military to stop enforcing the law. Before her ruling, government lawyers told Phillips they would appeal if she rejected their request.

With the recruiting announcement, the barriers built by an institution long resistant and sometimes hostile to gays had come down.

The movement to overturn the 1993 Clinton-era law gained speed when President Barack Obama campaigned on its repeal. The effort stalled in Congress this fall, and found new life last month when U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips declared it unconstitutional.

"Gay people have been fighting for equality in the military since the 1960s," said Aaron Belkin, executive director of the Palm Center, a think tank on gays and the military at the University of California Santa Barbara. "It took a lot to get to this day."

The Defense Department has said it would comply with Phillips' order and had frozen any discharge cases. Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said recruiters had been given top-level guidance to accept applicants who say they are gay.

 

Heard about this at the recruiting office last week. Good shit.

My recruiters were joking n' shit going "So, that means I can fuck you in the ass and tell everybody, right? How about dresses? Can we wear those?"

 

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why let women serve if you won't let openly gay guys do the same?

at least with the gays, you'll get the added biological bonuses of them being men, such as being able to serve in any MOS with no restrictions. Only thing I would watch out for would be hormone therapy types. Once that mothafucka starts taking estrogen, it might throw his biology out of whack.

I think this just boils down to a bunch of homophobes, who have trouble fighting homosexual tendencies. As long as the guy isn't trying to flirt with me or feel me up in the barracks, i don't mind.

 

Ya can't get any fairer than *that*!



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Exactly. down at MEPS, they were telling us about no discrimination, so we asked why the hell is was "Don't ask, don't tell".

 

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lol i know right. the whole policy is discriminatory in itself.

 

This is what our military will look like in a few years.

 

LOL!

That's so wrong!

I think it's great...

 

I dont understand the issue with gays in the military. Ive heard assholes say it would be a distraction and other bs. Last time I checked it just as much their country as it is mine, if they wanna fight let them dudes/girks fight. Case Closed...

 

I hate to sound like I'm outta the loop here..


But is this a pop group? Like N*Stink or something? I don't *know* them....:?::smt102




















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i love klinger and was always jealous of his wardrobe:smt023

 

Any environment that increases the likelyhood of a relationship with the people you serve with is a bad idea - period. It does not matter what the sexual combination is. For example, anyone who's ever had a relationship with a co-worker knows first hand how the entire work dynamic is changed. The military is filled with life and death situations. (Anten7 - FCSN United States Navy)

 

I totally concur, m8...


YOUR tuppence on *this*, as well?

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What the heck, Toon? I was hoping to get a full quid out of it...

 

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