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US Army General Carter Ham, Read more
The Washington Times notes that having ‘won’ the right to be openly homosexual in the US military, homosexual advocates are now pressing the military for more — as predicted.
Aubrey Sarvis, director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network…identified 11 benefits that he says the law permits if regulations are changed, including military family housing, access to commissaries and exchanges, marriage and family counseling, legal aid and joint duty assignments.
He also is seeking a change in the rules for Read more
The Army has been continuing to brief its basic trainees on the upcoming permissible service by open homosexuals.
At Fort Jackson…Capt. Guy Allsup…recently walked 231 nervous basic training recruits through scenarios…
“Does anybody think that this is going to be a drastic change for deployed soldiers?” Allsup called out to the group.
Ignore the paradox of an officer asking new recruits if things will “change.” The trainees’ answer: Read more
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Chaplain (Col) Ron Crews (US Army, Retired) is heading up the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty,
a group that wants to protect evangelical chaplains from the dangers created by the government’s decision to force open homosexual behavior on the armed forces.
He recently noted that some Chaplain endorsers have indicated they will not only endorse homosexual Chaplains, but they already have homosexual Chaplains who Read more
An article from the northwest highlights the “training” on DADT repeal that occurred at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, which one Captain said was “not a lot of change.”
Captain Ben Schneller, who delivered the briefings as an Army company commander, also expressed a bit of confusion after giving the training:
Schneller sounds confident…but he’ll have to work through a few gray areas that are arising because of the Defense of Marriage Act…
For example, line commanders will have to decide whether to grant emergency leave in certain situations for gay soldiers if their partners become seriously ill. Schneller says he faces the same choice with any soldier whose relatives fall sick.
The article contains the first reference to the Department of Defense officially endorsing the “loophole” groups have advocated to allow homosexuals Read more
In perhaps the most dismissed — and yet most widely predicted — response to the repeal of the policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” a homosexual advocacy group is pushing for military benefits currently denied to homosexuals.
Far from simply relying on the eventual undoing of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network says the military can actually grant benefits consistent with the law: Read more
The Journal of Faith and War reprints a well-written commentary on the repeal of the policy most commonly known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the US military. Written by retired Cols Al Shine* and Don Snider, “The Right to be Wrong” forwards a simple premise: If homosexuality is to be permitted in the military, the military must have a decidedly — and explicitly — neutral stance between both opposing ideologies: Read more