Gays cant serve voluntarily, but WILL be drafted say mil. experts

[Cannikin]

If the military draft returns, “don’t ask, don’t tell” seems like an easy out for anyone who doesn’t want to serve, gay or not. Forget about it: Military experts say that under a reinstated draft, able-bodied gay men and lesbians will likely be inducted into the U.S. military.
By Steven Harbaugh
An Advocate.com exclusive posted July 6, 2004

If the United States were to reenact the draft for the first time since the Vietnam War—in order to ease the strain on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan—openly gay men and lesbians would likely be required to serve whether they wanted to or not, military experts tell Advocate.com.

The Defense Department is certainly feeling the burden of fighting two wars. This week it reassigned 5,700 additional soldiers to National Guard and Reserve units to be sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. And lawmakers, such as Republican senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, continue to call for the draft to be reinstated. New York Democratic representative Charles Rangel argues that it would produce a more demographically balanced force and introduced a bill last year that would require mandatory service for all draft-age American men and women. South Carolina Democratic senator Ernest Hollings has introduced a companion bill in the Senate.

A.J. Rogue, national president of American Veterans for Equal Rights, agrees. “The recalling of reservists and retirees is the first step in reinstating the draft. What makes it easy is the fact that young males and females are now required to register,” he says. “This makes it really easy to get the draft going again--it's just a simple matter of notifying everyone registered.”


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http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/919/919_draft.asp

[Sandpiper]

1. I see

So they're not good enough to voluntarily serve their country, but they're good enough for indentured servitude.

[Fovea]

2. One difference between the rule of law

and a cult of personality, is that in a despotic govt, law is a matter of aesthetics, not logic.

There you go... Next up, Trofin Lysenko on Genetically modfied, but doctrinally pure foods.

[Misunderestimator]

3. Yeah... and they will all be in the Second-Class Citizen Infantry Division

[Freya]

6. You are probably right

They did it to african americans.

[ecoalex]

4. Why a Draft?

Don't we have enough military for defense? The only reason to reinstate the draft would be to further American influence, the arena of the once hated Soviet Threat. Why we are hated across the world for the illegal Iraq war, it was indefensible, and just shows arrogance , ignorance.It's time to examine our defense allocations, and redeploy them at home , where they are needed.

[wolfgirl]

5. Of course

they can serve, under a Constitution that denies them equal rights! (Or so at least Bush & Co. want it to be)!