CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — The Defense Department on Thursday announced it is allowing service members to march in uniform in a gay pride parade for the first time in U.S. history.
In a memorandum sent to all its branches, the department said it was making the allowance for San Diego’s gay pride parade on Saturday even though its policy generally bars troops from marching in uniform in parades.
The Defense Department said it did so because organizers had encouraged military personnel to march in their uniform and the event was getting national attention.
The move came only weeks after the Pentagon joined the rest of the U.S. government for the first time in marking June as gay pride month and made an official salute to gay and lesbian service members.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta vowed in a video message to remove as many barriers as possible to making the military a model of equal opportunity and said gays and lesbians can be proud in uniform with the repeal last year of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law.
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What’s wrong with these service military leaders. Everyone of those sodomites would be on lock-down in site. Then every single one of those sodomites would be dealt with – the sickening freak-show boy-child rapers.
Totally unacceptable.
The article didn’t say, but I’m assuming that these military personnel are all gays and lesbians. It’s an insult to our fine military forces to link homosexuality and the uniform. Panetta and the Obama administration should be ashamed of themselves.
We will be assuming that anyone who marches in this pink parade fits the bill. If not, we appologise. If you march in this parade, you will not be representative of the people nor of our military who fights for our freedom and deserves our respect. We will not be cheering you nor thanking you for your service. We will be embarrassed and you will have accomplished nothing. Don’t ask Don’t tell was for everyone’s benifit. What one does in one’s bedroom doesn’t concern America but when you bring it out of the bedroom you make it my business. America is NOT a country of Homosexual’s but a country that contains some homosexuals who until now was content to keep their business their business. You will never change our minds. Respect is earned.