Pentagon Plans June Pride for Gay Servicemembers: Approve?

by Fef Posted 2012/06/14 22:48:23

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"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) no longer applies in the U.S. military. Now gay, lesbian and bisexual members of the armed forces can parade their sexual orientation in public. The Pentagon will salute its non-heterosexual members with a gay pride parade.

“Now that we’ve repealed ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ he feels it’s important to find a way this month to recognize the service and professionalism of gay and lesbian troops,” said Navy Capt. John Kirby, a spokesman.

Gays in the military feel good about the military's transition to allow openly gay soldiers, airmen, sailors, marines, etc.. “I don’t think it’s just moving along smoothly, I think it’s accelerating faster than we even thought the military would as far as progress goes,” said Air Force 1st Lt. Josh Seefried representing Outserve, a professional association for gay service members.

President Obama signed legislation to repeal the 18-year-old policy of DADT on December 22, 2010. ArmyTimes.com reports: Last summer, gays in the military dared not admit their sexual orientation. This summer, the Pentagon will salute them, marking June as gay pride month just as it has marked other celebrations honoring racial or ethnic groups.

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Heisenberg 2012/06/14 23:03:46

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Our military should focus on competence, honor and valor not on celebrating homosexuality.
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aneed2know to rknothead 2012/06/15 09:01:08

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you are welcome, i hate when people distort the truth, watch this will be a headline story on Fox and it will be worded just as the poster presented it. I did a little research on SH, and what i found out shocked the hell out of me.

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rknothead to aneed2know 2012/06/15 12:35:00

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I hope you're wrong about Fox, it's the best source we have out there unless you see if for yourself. But let me know if they slant it like this. My son is in the Army, so I'll see what he has to say about it.

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aneed2know to rknothead 2012/06/16 04:25:32

please Fox is not the source for actual factual news, you do know they went to court so they could lie dont you?

http://www.projectcensored.or...

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Snow 2012/06/15 04:19:18

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They were a previously discriminated minority. Before, if they'd come out with who they really were, they would have been persecuted for it. But now, they can be themselves and have no bad consequences. And that's something worth celebrating, don't you think so? At least, this can be a small way of making up for past wrongs.

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TheDeadAreLiving 2012/06/15 04:16:44
will 2012/06/15 03:37:46

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No

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DebraJMSmith 2012/06/15 03:17:52

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Shame on them!

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Always to DebraJM... 2012/06/15 14:08:18

Why? And you realize that it's not a parade for gay servicemembers, it's just that gay service members are allowed wear their uniforms when participating in a gay pride parade that happens every year. It's not a special parade just for gay service people.

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gregaj7 2012/06/15 03:16:26

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Broken 2012/06/15 03:08:34

Disapprove

As an Army Officer since 1978, I completely disapprove of this.

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Kaleoku... to Broken 2012/06/15 05:27:27

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As an Air Force Officer since 1983, I find it interesting that the source material did not seem to mention any parade. That may be a Sodahead fabrication.

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aneed2know to Kaleoku... 2012/06/15 08:35:41

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The parade that the poster is referring to is the one that happens every year, its just this year the Pentagon has approved of service members wearing their Uniform it is not a Pentagon parade, the poster is misleading and distorting facts hear which is no surprise at all considering the source.

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Lerro DeHazel 2012/06/15 02:56:15

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Will there actually be a "Commemorative Pin" that each "new acclaimed" member will be wearing on his/her/it/I wonder; dress uniforms? . . . Will there eventually be a type of "rifle marksmanship badge"? . . . Will there eventually be a "new acclaimed" member Day that will be similar to Veteran's Day? . . . If so, then will Veteran's Day be called Heterosexual Vet's Day? . . . "Straight Vet's Day?" . . . Will THIS once and for all finally cure the psychological pain suffered by 3% of the Global Populaton? The Pentagon and both houses of congress have a tremendous amount of political planning and legislature ahead of them . . . That's for sure.

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Kaleokualoha 2012/06/15 02:46:06

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The ArmyTimes article did not say anything about a parade, only "gay pride month." Where does the "parade" claim and photo come from? Could it be a straw man exaggeration?

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aneed2know to Kaleoku... 2012/06/15 08:36:00

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it is

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ღ♥ღ ℒea ღ♥ღ 2012/06/15 02:45:05

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why does it have to be about sexual preference. Why can't we just salute our military. all of them, not a certain group based on lifestyle.

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shenendoah 2012/06/15 02:32:51

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How stupid is this? A military man should be recognized as a patriot, protector of our country and our freedom, an honorable man or woman with high morals and ideals, so who gives a rats butt what their sexual orientation is. It seems these people are homosexuals first before anything else. I think there should be a hetrosexual day and we should have a parade but without the prancing fool wearing nothing but a pair of chaps. I've got gay friends and they approve of this message.

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conservyT to shenendoah 2012/06/15 02:38:34

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and I do to; LOL!!!

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Lerro D... to shenendoah 2012/06/15 02:58:12

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. . . It's not the RAT's butt . . . That's for sure.

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conservyT 2012/06/15 02:24:06

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RIDICULOUS!!!

Man our Nation keeps getting stupider by the second...

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**weaselbee::StarkidJay* 2012/06/15 01:57:26

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These are the people that are helping protect our country, and I will respect them regardless of what their sexuality is. It's nice that they can be open about it now:)

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ღ♥ღ ℒea... to **wease... 2012/06/15 02:47:10 (edited)

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why should they be singled out for a special parade?

let me rephrase...

why should they be singled out for a special "event"?

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Kaleoku... to ღ♥ღ ℒea... 2012/06/15 05:28:14 (edited)

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I found no evidence of a parade in the source material. This may be like the game of Gossip, where each retelling gets some embellisment.

It's rather curious, however, how the distortion of an "event" into a "parade" was done so smoothly.

"The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth." - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

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ღ♥ღ ℒea... to Kaleoku... 2012/06/15 05:52:36

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the terminology was "event"... nothing to really be curious about, anytime you hear Gay pride celebrations of sorts... it's usually always a parade.

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aneed2know to ღ♥ღ ℒea... 2012/06/15 08:36:32

they are not its a parade that happens every year, why are you guys so easily misled?

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ღ♥ღ ℒea... to aneed2know 2012/06/16 02:27:24

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What are you talking about, misled? What about my post is inaccurate?

Gay pride celebrations start happening from late May and going throughout all of June and sometimes throughout July.. it's not one particular day... it's multiple parades all around the world.

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aneed2know to ღ♥ღ ℒea... 2012/06/16 04:29:19

so why are you buying into the posters lie about the Pentagon planning a separate day to honor gay troops, the Pentagon is neither sponsoring this parade nor are they paying for it. And the Parade in question is happening next month, as it happens every July, that was the point. You are inaccurate and the poster of this question is inaccurate and the person who raved is just as misled as you are.

This is the part of your posting that is inaccurate and this is what shows how easily misled you are.

"why should they be singled out for a special parade?

let me rephrase...

why should they be singled out for a special "event"?"

Your words not mine, but way to try and change the subject, nice try but you fail.

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ღ♥ღ ℒea... to aneed2know 2012/06/16 05:25:58

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the Pentagon is holding an event to honor LGBT month.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/p...

you can check many sources, the articles use the terminology "event"... I wrote the word parade instead of "event", that's why I changed my post.

now unless you are telling me the Pentagon is not holding any kind of event to salute gay pride & all of these news articles and sources are wrong and can prove that... then you fail.

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aneed2know to ღ♥ღ ℒea... 2012/06/16 05:50:14

okay where does it say parade, where does it say the Pentagon is sponsoring a parade. The Honor black history, Irish History, Native Americans, but they do not put on special parades.

I know what you have issues with and its not the with Pentagon, you have issues with LGBTs being honored by the military they served in secrete, come on admit it.

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ღ♥ღ ℒea... to aneed2know 2012/06/16 06:42:56 (edited)

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you quoted the post where I clearly said, "let me rephrase" and changed parade to "event". Another poster asked why I said parade, my response was when I think of gay pride celebration I think of a parade. So I edited my post to "event". Pay better attention to what you are quoting, it had already been corrected. I chose to use "let me rephrase" as a courtesy to the other poster... his response would not have read correctly had I removed the word "parade".

You're asking me to admit something I have already clearly stated. I think the entire military should get a salute, not specific groups.

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**wease... to ღ♥ღ ℒea... 2012/06/16 09:13:41

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It's for the same reason that there are celebrations of any other group of people in America that used to be- or really, in this case, still are- seen as beneath the majority of other people.

African-American appreciation- type celebrations, for example. It's celebrating that people aren't so damn uptight, prejudiced, judgmental, and racist anymore.

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ღ♥ღ ℒea... to **wease... 2012/06/16 16:05:30

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I totally understand what you're saying. But at what point do we stop doing that and come together as equals, because I really see everybody as equal. I don't care what color/sex/sexual preference somebody is.

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**wease... to ღ♥ღ ℒea... 2012/06/16 22:03:25

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I don't know that we'll ever be able to; there will always be people who want to be celebrated and people who don't want certain people to be celebrated. Until everyone sees everyone else as equals, I don't think that will stop.

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Lerro D... to **wease... 2012/06/15 03:06:05

There is no such thing as "REGARDLESS" what their sexuality is. Instead it is "REGUARDING PRECISELY" what their political ideology is concerning whatever it is that they do"(?)" . Legislation is soon to appear on that.

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wale63 2012/06/15 01:55:15

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Open homosexuals should be booted from the military and not celebrated.
Andy

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Kaleoku... to wale63 2012/06/15 02:39:08

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Such discrimination is now illegal.

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wale63 to Kaleoku... 2012/06/15 14:40:55

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It is NOT discrimination. It is a recognition of right and wrong.
The fact that a portion of society has been conned into thinking hom osexuality is an acceptable form of behavior necessitates expression from the CORRECTmajority point of view counter to that. Disagreement with maladjusted views that legitimize deviant behavior is NOT discriminatory.
Andy

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Mopeder 2012/06/15 01:51:08

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They should have something like that for them.

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The Libertarian 2012/06/15 01:48:28

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Everyone has a right to serve but the Military has no right singling out one group over another for Service, I am tired of this gay crap, if it happens I will be there with other Veterans ready to raise holy hell.

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aneed2know to The Lib... 2012/06/15 08:43:45

they are not it is a parade that happens every year, which the Pentagon is allowing service members to wear their Uniform in it, just like they allow in other parades rather they be St Patty's day, Knights of Columbus parade and would allow if Klan members wanted to. So please move on nothing to see hear but a lie.

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