Pentagon Treats Homosexuality as if it's Worse for Morale, Order, and Discipline Than Sexual Assault

The dogma currently dictating the military's employment policies asserts that homosexuality itself is bad for morale. The fact that this is utterly false is secondary to the fact the basic purposes of the Constitution prohibit legally putting the "morale" of bigots before the rights of consenting adults to any form of the pursuit of happiness, between or amongst themselves. Nevertheless, their idiotic rationale has withstood the arguments made against it thus far, so it may as well be falsified. That's an easy thing to do, by simply comparing the military's treatment of heterosexual crimes by its male members against its female members, to its treatment of homosexuality, as a "status crime" which is utterly forbidden by the same country's civilian law.

Soldiers who serve loyally and proficiently, and are gay are expelled unequivocally from the military, but most heterosexuals who dishonor their country, their families and their uniforms escape discipline altogether while those few who are made examples receive such weak "punishment" and rationalizations of their trailer trash conduct that are so enthusiastic, elaborate, implausible, and bizarrely empathetic for an organization whose primary purpose is killing, that it is clear that whoever is responsible for "morale, good order and discipline" can relate to sexual assault of females but not to consensual sex with other males and is making personnel decisions on the basis of those personal feelings, not on the merit of the persons involved nor on the values of the United States Constitution, which it is nevertheless his duty to defend and uphold.

Juxtaposed like this, the Pentagon's policy on heterosexual, non-consensual, criminal sex acts and its policy on homosexual, consensual, legal sex acts reveal an organizational culture which obviously has more in common with the Taliban's interpretation of Sharia than with democracy, the modern, Western concept of universal rights of humanity, or the United States Constitution's stated ideals that all people are created equal and that a just government may punish only coercion, the violation of another person's rights, including the pursuit of happiness. It is actually the duty of any true adherent to the values of the United States to pursue prosecution of the bigots behind these policies under Title 18, Sections 241 and 242 of the United States Criminal Code. Whatever the highest echelons of the military intend to train its recruits to defend, it is not the Constitution nor any variety of Western civilization.

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page created: 30 May 2009
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