According to the homosexual news outlet the Washington Blade, the US Coast Guard has added “sexual orientation and genetic information” to its Equal Opportunity policies.

The guidance, made public Thursday morning by the American Military Partners Association and dated Oct. 13, says “sexual orientation and genetic information” are now included as part of equal opportunity and anti-discrimination/anti-harassment policy statements within the Coast Guard. The guidance is signed at the bottom by Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp.

This naturally led for calls for the Department of Defense to do the same (the Coasties fall under the Department of Homeland Security, not the DoD).  The DoD said it would continue the original plan for DADT repeal implementation:

Lt. Cmdr. Nathan Christensen, a Pentagon spokesperson, responded to the renewed calls by pointing to Pentagon guidance during the process of lifting “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” stating sexual orientation won’t “be considered along with race, color, religion, sex, and national origin as a class under the Military Equal Opportunity (MEO) program.”

Despite this, the article recalls the statement by then-Acting Secretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning — the highest ranking homosexual in the Department of Defense — in which he explicitly called for a non-discrimination policy for “sexual orientation.”

None of the recent changes address the issues of transgendered individuals, though within the article advocates continue to say transgendered troops are in precisely the same situation homosexuals once were:

The existing medical policies on transgender Coast Guard service are every bit as harmful to them as DADT was to lesbian, gay, and bisexual service members, and have nothing to do with their actual ability and desire to serve.

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