News Hip to be Gay
Being gay and in the military is more popular than EVER. (Okay, not as popular as in 2003.) How do we know?
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — The Defense Department discharged 726 service members last year for being gay, up about 10 percent from 2004, figures released by a gay rights group show.
The Army, by far the largest branch of the military, discharged more gay personnel last year than the other branches with 386, the figures show, followed by the Navy with 177, the Air Force with 88 and the Marines, the smallest force, with 75.The total of such discharges in 2004 was 653. That compares with 770 in 2003, 885 in 2002 and 1,227 in 2001.
Thanks to Clinton’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, military personnel can’t label you a homo unless you admit to it, or they catch you in the act of, uh, gaying it up.
Which means that either military gays suck at stealth (oh, the irony!), or more people in 2005 were inspired to sashay out of duty, and Clinton’s given them carte blanche by uttering six magical words: “I, sir, am a gay wad.â€
Oh wait, there’s more:
In a review by the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, the Pentagon said last year that more service members had been discharged for drug offenses, pregnancy and weight problems than for being gay.
I suppose I spoke too soon. Being gay in the military isn’t as popular as being fat or pregnant.
i apologize that i don't have a link, but there was something about two weeks ago where they fired another arabic translator for being gay. apparently there was a rumor that there was a homo in the ranks, and they finally caught the bastard.
i believe (and i'm not kidding here) that the question that got him was, "Have you ever been involved in community theater?"