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readmoreoften Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 04:37 PM
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4. Mortars But Not Marriage
At first I thought that the conservatives would hop on board and say SURE! Come aboard. And, by the way, homosexuals must serve in the draft as well! I was afraid that we'd be good enough to be cannon fodder but not so good that our partners back home would get military benefits.

But I was pleasantly WRONG! The idiots actually DO want to fight our inclusion in the military. What a WONDERFUL WEDGE ISSUE. This is a wedge if ever there was one: openly serving homosexuals or a draft that might kill your chickenhawk kid?

Oh, bring it on, my loves! Bring it on!

>>Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, a conservative advocacy group that opposes gays serving in the military, said a better way to avoid the cost of replacing soldiers who are discharged for being gay is to make it very clear to people who enlist in the military, including Stout, that they are ineligible to serve if they are gay.

"I honor and respect his service to this country, but the fact that he's wounded really doesn't change the underlying fact. ... He is not eligible to serve," Donnelly said, adding that there are many reasons why people aren't eligible to serve. "This is just one of them.">>>

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