So I guess the rules for chain of command and senior/subordinate relationships still matter...The answer to Marines: “If the observed behavior crosses acceptable boundaries as defined in the standards of conduct for your unit and the Marine Corps, then an appropriate correction should be made. Your assessment should be made without regard to sexual orientation.”
I'll bet the legal officers were getting tired of having to deal with this one anyway.Answer: “The U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces found that private, consensual sexual activity, to include consensual sodomy, regardless of sexual orientation, is a protected liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment.”
Militaries have had gay servicemembers since pick a century or millennium. Nice to see ours isn't sticking its collective head under the sand anymore.
Just as when minorities and women were "integrated" into the military, the youngers don't care what the elders are getting all worked up about as long as they can get some help with filling a three-section watchbill.This will be akin to women in the military - there is a minority who are very disturbed by our presence - others could not care less what our gender is as long as we get our job done! There is subtle and overt "harassment"...that will probably decrease over time as the folks serving just "get used" to it. I don't see the really flamboyant folks running out to join the military anyway. IMHO not much will REALLY change.
I predict that the first dozen officers who have to be slapped down hard and stuffed back into their boxes... will be chaplains. I don't think they expected to have this sort of "conscientious objector" issue.
I would actually be surprised if this were the case. But it would come from the fact that I've actually read the Bible front to back to see what the big deal was. I would assume the chaplains would know their source material better than me. Cherry picking that sin, out of the hundreds of others, and especially in a military setting, well...that's just takes a special kind of person. I'd hope that kind of person is rare in the chaplain corps.
Like Gumby says, I'll bet at least half of the first dozen exposé articles come from 32nd Street. Although I wouldn't put it past Miramar to try to get in on the act too...I would actually be surprised if this were the case. But it would come from the fact that I've actually read the Bible front to back to see what the big deal was. I would assume the chaplains would know their source material better than me. Cherry picking that sin, out of the hundreds of others, and especially in a military setting, well...that's just takes a special kind of person. I'd hope that kind of person is rare in the chaplain corps.
I think you would be sadly disappointed
"In the mid-1980s the Pentagon began accrediting hundreds of new evangelical and Pentecostal "endorsing agencies," allowing graduates of fundamentalist Bible colleges trained to see those from other faiths as enemies of Christ to fill up nearly the entire allotment for Protestant chaplains. As a result, more than two thirds of the military's 2,900 active-duty chaplains today are affiliated with evangelical or Pentecostal denominations."