Ladies and gentleman, Saxby Chambliss (R, Ga.):
At the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today on the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) expressed his concern that repealing the rule would pave the way for allowing “alcohol use, adultery, fraternization, and body art” in the military — and that the army must “exclude persons whose presence in the armed forces would create unacceptable risk to the armed forces’ high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion.”
Chambliss acknowledged that while the military enforces “restrictions on personal behavior that would not be acceptable in civilian society,” it “must maintain policies that exclude persons whose presence in the armed forces would create unacceptable risk to the armed forces’ high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion.”
“In my opinion,” he said, “the presence in the armed forces of persons who demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts would very likely create an unacceptable risk to those high standards.”
Why, if gays are allowed into the military, Chambliss said, soon the armed forces will allow all sorts of other things.
Like what?
“Alcohol use, adultery, fraternization, and body art,” said Chambliss.
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Dumbass.
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:01 am
When I was in the military, alcohol use, adultry, and fraternization were already considered acceptable behavior, at least in reality. Those things happened, and people talked openly about doing them. If by “body art” Chambliss means tattoos, those were pretty common as well.
I left the military in 1994, so I suppose things could have drastically changed since then, but I doubt it. There’s no reason to think those things will change regardless, and it still doesn’t make sense to not allow homosexuals to serve openly and proudly in the US Armed Forces.
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:06 pm
I don’t get that, either…I mean, when were adultery, alcohol use, fraternization, and tattoos not part of the lives of many soldiers?
My best friend is in the Navy, with a rank of PO/1 (Petty Officer, First Class)…and he has partaken in all of these activities on more occasions than I could even begin to count, but that doesn’t make him an ineffective soldier, either.
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Body art??? WTF???
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