The anonymous milblogger "An Army Lawyer" has an illuminating post on the MSM report on the gay Arabic linguist who was recently discharged from the 82nd Airborne because of homosexual conduct.
"As an initial matter, while the soldier was an Arab linguist, that was not his assignment at the time. He was assigned to the All-America Chorus (i.e. a singer), which is part of the 82nd Airborne Division but with a decidedly different mission.
"So unless we’re fighting the enemy with show-tunes, discharging this soldier is not part of some ‘Sept 10’ mentality. Were the soldier actually working as an Arabic linguist at the time, perhaps you could make that argument. But as he wasn’t, you can’t."
What you can do is question the Army’s concern about gays in the ranks, at all. Since they are there, have always been there, and probably always will be there. But the Army didn’t set the policy, afterall, although it was backed by such as Gen. Colin Powell, who as I remember vociferously denied that it was in any way related to the previous discrimination against minorities and women. I asked "An Army Lawyer" in a comment on his site about why the sexual harrassment rules couldn’t be applied to heterosexuals and gays as they are now applied to women soldiers, and will update with his answer.
UPDATE He responded quicker than I thought he would (or I would have waited before posting), with this: "I see your point. Though I think the analogy to soldiers’ reluctance to accept black soldiers doesn’t quite hold for the reason that introducing the sexual element (as opposed to the more easily surmountable racial element) presents more problems than it solves."
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